"Version: 20191001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Microscopy, spectroscopy and diffraction -- 1.3. Introductory optics -- 1.4. Introduction to atomic physics -- 1.5. Introductory solid state physics2. Fourier series, transforms and their relevance in diffraction and microscopy -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Fourier series -- 2.3 The…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Photonics -- 1.2. Integrated photonics -- 1.3. Silicon photonics -- 1.4. Silicon-on-insulator technology in this book2. Waveguides -- 2.1. Maxwell's equations for linear, passive materials -- 2.2. Dielectric slab waveguides -- 2.3. General properties of modes in dielectric waveguides -- 2.4. Rectan…
"Version: 20190101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-28).1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1. Theory -- 2.2. Methods of gravitational wave detection -- 2.3. LIGO detector description3. Current directions -- 3.1. Noise sources and strain sensitivity -- 3.2. Gravitational wave searches -- 3.3. Gravitational wave astronomy4. Outlook -- 4.1. Ground-based detectors…
"A EUTEMPE network book.""Version: 20200301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. What is strategic and robust leadership, and why is it critical for Medical Physics in the present environment? -- 1.1. Leadership versus management : there is a difference! -- 1.2. Improving patient services by leading medical physics groups and teams -- 1.3. What type of Medical Physics group…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of fundamentals -- 1.1. Kinematics : basic notions -- 1.2. Dynamics : Newton's laws -- 1.3. Conservation laws -- 1.4. Potential energy and equilibrium -- 1.5. OK, we've got it--can we go home now? -- 1.6. Problems2. Lagrangian analytical mechanics -- 2.1. Lagrange equations -- 2.2. Three simple examples -- 2.3. …
"Version: 20180301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of fundamentals -- 2. Lagrangian analytical mechanics -- 3. A few simple problems -- 4. Rigid-body motion -- 5. Oscillations -- 6. From oscillations to waves -- 7. Deformations and elasticity -- 8. Fluid mechanics -- 9. Deterministic chaos -- 10. A bit more of analytical mechanics -- Appendices. A. Selected math…
"Version: 20180501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Electric charge interaction -- 1.1. The Coulomb law -- 1.2. The Gauss law -- 1.3. Scalar potential and electric field energy -- 1.4. Problems2. Charges and conductors -- 2.1. Polarization and screening -- 2.2. Capacitance -- 2.3. The simplest boundary problems -- 2.4. Using other orthogonal coordinates -- 2.5. Variable…
"Version: 20180501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Electric charge interaction -- 2. Charges and conductors -- 3. Dipoles and dielectrics -- 4. DC current -- 5. Magnetism -- 6. Electromagnetism -- 7. Electromagnetic wave propagation -- 8. Radiation, scattering, interference, and diffraction -- 9. Special relativity -- 10. Radiation by relativistic charges.Essential Adv…
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Experimental motivations -- 1.2. Wave mechanics postulates -- 1.3. Postulates' discussion -- 1.4. Continuity equation -- 1.5. Eigenstates and eigenvalues -- 1.6. Time evolution -- 1.7. Spatial dependence -- 1.8. Dimensionality reduction -- 1.9. Problems2. 1D wave mechanics -- 2.1. Basic relations -…
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. 1D wave mechanics -- 3. Higher dimensionality effects -- 4. Bra-ket formalism -- 5. Some exactly solvable problems -- 6. Perturbative approaches -- 7. Open quantum systems -- 8. Multiparticle systems -- 9. Elements of relativistic quantum mechanics -- Appendices. A. Selected mathematical formulas -- …