"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Electronic states in self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots -- 1.1. Simple image of a self-assembled semiconductor quantum dot -- 1.2. Quantum dot bound states -- 1.3. Continuum states -- 1.4. Coulombic interactions -- 1.5.…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-46).Foreword -- 1. Origins -- 2. Background -- 3. Gateways -- 4. Summation -- 5. Disclosure.Few artworks have been the subject of more extensive modern interpretation than Melencolia I by renowned artist, mathematician, and scient…
"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. What is computation? -- 1.1. Defining computation -- 1.2. The roles of computation in scientific research -- 1.3. Further reading2. Computation in science -- 2.1. Traditional science : celestial mechanics -- 2.2. Scientific mo…
"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction. The setting for women in physics after World War II -- 2. Women physicists in the national laboratories -- 3. Women physicists in research universities -- 4. Women physicists in industry -- 5. Women physicists in…
"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Foreword -- 1. The physics of geobiology and geochemistry -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Fundamental scaling relationships : advection versus diffusion -- 1.3. Summary2. Percolation theory, the effective-medium approximation and up…
"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Days, months and years -- 1.1. A first discourse on measurement, units and precision -- 1.2. What we see in the sky--stars, planets, Sun and Moon -- 1.3. What the solar system looks like -- 1.4. What a day makes -- 1.5. Discovering the l…
"Version: 20151101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author biography -- 1. The scientific method -- 1.1. Introduction to the scientific method -- 1.2. Some mathematics2. Early astronomy -- 3. Nebulae4. Cosmic distances -- 4.1. The cosmic distance ladder -- 4.2.…
"Version: 20151101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Observational background -- 1.1. Distances -- 1.2. Stellar brightness and luminosity -- 1.3. Colors -- 1.4. Spectroscopy -- 1.5. Color-magnitude diagrams -- 1.6. Stellar masses -- 1.7. The mass-luminosity relation for main seq…
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Author biography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A simple model of nonlinear dielectrics3. Basic properties of photonic crystals -- 3.1. Plane wave method -- 3.2. Wannier function method -- 3.3. Computer simulation me…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Sampling -- 1.2. Random-number generators2. The Metropolis algorithm -- 2.1. Importance sampling -- 2.2. Classical liquids -- 2.3. Block algorithms3. Variational Monte Carlo -- 3.1. Variational principle -…