"Version: 20200801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Functionals and classical mechanics -- 1.2. The operator formulation of quantum mechanics -- 1.3. Operator identities -- 1.4. Grassmann variables -- 1.5. Gaussian integrals -- 1.6. Poisson resummation2. The quantum mechanical path integral -- 2.1. The infinitesimal transition element -- 2.2. The b…
"Version: 20220501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Stellar structure -- 1.2. Equations of stellar structure -- 1.3. Our Sun -- 1.4. Stellar atmospheres -- 1.5. Stellar evolution1.6. Galaxies -- 2. The Milky Way Galaxy -- 2.1. Coordinate systems, parallax and radial velocities -- 2.2. The equatorial coordinate system -- 2.3. Rotational transformatio…
"Version: 20230401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction to bioenergy. 1. Renewable energy and biomass -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The energy use sectors -- 1.3. Energy flow--from primary to end-use energy -- 1.4. Global primary energy and total final energy consumption -- 1.5. Share of renewable energy in the global final energy consumption -- 1.6. Share …
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Kinetic theory. 1. Boltzmann and Vlasov equations in plasma physics / Gianpiero Colonna -- 2. Two-term Boltzmann equation / Gianpiero Colonna and Antonio D'Angola -- 3. Multiterm and non-local electron Boltzmann equation / Detlef Loffhagen -- 4. Particle-based simulation of plasmas / Giovanni Lapenta -- 5. The erg…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Dynamical systems -- 2.1. Canonical mechanics -- 2.2. Weakly-chaotic dynamics -- 2.3. Quantum mechanics3. Phase space lattices -- 3.1. Lattice symmetry in phase space -- 3.2. Quasinumber band theory -- 3.3. Noncommutative geometry4. Many-body physics in phase space -- 4.1. Classical many-body dynamics …
"Version: 20210207"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Anatomical and morphological preliminaries -- 1.1. Overview of the urinary bladder -- 1.2. Detrusor muscle -- 1.3. 'Pacemakers' -- 1.4. Mechanosensation -- 1.5. Afferent signalling -- 1.6. Neuronal assemblies in the hypothalamus and adenohypophysis2. Continual models of the bladder tissue -- 2.1. Single-phase models --…
"Version: 20220401"--Title page verso.Revised edition of: A pedagogical introduction to electroweak baryogenesis.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. The Sakharov conditions3. Baryon number violation in the Standard Model -- 3.1. The axial anomaly -- 3.2. The Chern-Simons form, baryon number violation, and the winding number -- 3.3. Winding number and non-abelian gauge grou…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Principle of the fluid description of magnetically confined plasmas -- 1.1. Framework of conventional fluid theory -- 1.2. Fluid description of magnetically confined plasmaspart II. Fluid theory in the collision-dominant regime. 2. Braginskii two-fluid theory -- 2.1. Transport equations -- 2.2. Es…
"Version: 202111"--Title page verso.Revised edition of: Nonlinear optics of photonic crystals and meta-materials.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Photonic crystals -- 1.2. Metamaterials -- 1.3. Negative index of refraction -- 1.4. Perfect lenses -- 1.5. Periodicity -- 1.6. Excitations in nonlinear media -- 1.7. Systems with defects and disorder2. A simple model of non…
"Version: 20210207"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. What we probably know. 1. The Standard Models--overview and perspective -- 1.1. The large number of solutions to string/M-theory is not an obstacle to finding a theory that describes nature -- 1.2. String theorists study theories, not phenomena -- 1.3. Nutcracker -- 1.4. Why the Standard Model is true--it will be …