"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Notation and tensor analysis essentials -- 2.1. Linear fractional transform -- 2.2. Visualizing rotations3. Orthogonal basis and coordinate transformations -- 3.1. Superimposed rotations -- 3.2. Basis rotations4. Rotation operations -- 4.1. Why apparent inconsistency in placement of the negative sign…
"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Optical information security systems based on a gyrator wavelet transform -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Theory -- 1.3. Applications of a gyrator wavelet transform -- 1.4. Conclusion2. Optical one-way hash function -- part A. Introduction to the one-way hash function -- A.1. One-way hash function--acquire the 'fingerprin…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Extreme events in forced oscillatory media in zero, one and two dimensions -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Zero dimensions -- 1.3. One dimension -- 1.4. Two dimensions -- 1.5. Conclusion2. Extreme waves in stimulated backscattering and frequency conversion processes -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Fundamental rogue wave solu…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The flexible electronics paradigm -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Traditional versus flexible electronics -- 1.3. Three-pronged approach to flexible electronics -- 1.4. Defining flexible electronics -- 1.5. Broad scope of flexible electronics -- 1.6. Organization of the book -- 1.7. Discussion and conclusionspart I. Mecha…
"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phase estimation : spatial fringe analysis -- 2.1. Background -- 2.2. Carrier fringe pattern demodulation -- 2.3. Closed fringe pattern demodulation3. Fringe denoising and phase unwrapping -- 3.1. Real sinusoidal fringe pattern denoising -- 3.2. Phase fringe pattern denoising -- 3.3. Phase…
"Version: 202110"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. The exoplanetary landscape / Nikku Madhusudhanpart II. Exoplanet detection and spectroscopy. 2. The demographics of exoplanets / B. Scott Gaudi, Michael Meyer and Jessie Christiansen -- 3. Transit surveys / Don Pollacco, Natalie Batalha, Magali Deleuil and George Ricker -- 4. Radial velocity surveys…
"Version: 20170701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. General relativity essentials -- 1.1. The equivalence principle -- 1.2. Relativistic mechanics -- 1.3. Differential geometry primer -- 1.4. Curvature tensor -- 1.5. The stress-energy-momentum tensor -- 1.6. Einstein's equation -- 1.7. Killing vectors and maximally symmetric spaces -- 1.8. The Hilbert-Einstei…
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Relativistic quantum mechanics -- 1.1. The rotation groups SO(3) and SO(n) -- 1.2. Special relativity -- 1.3. Klein-Gordon equation -- 1.4. Dirac equation -- 1.5. Free solutions of the Dirac equation -- 1.6. Lorentz covariance : first look -- 1.7. Representations of the Lorentz group -- 1.8. Exercises -- 1.9. Solutions…
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.9. Standard model -- 9.1. Elements of phenomenology -- 9.2. The standard model -- 9.3. Exercises10. Introduction to lattice field theory -- 10.1. The lattice [phi]2 -- 10.2. Fermions on the lattice -- 10.3. Gauge fields on the lattice -- 10.4. Quenched quantum electrodynamics on the lattice11. The Wilson and functional re…
"Version: 20171101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Introduction -- Glimpses in brief -- 1. The metre and the metric system -- part 1. The making of the metre -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The birth of the metric system -- 1.3. The Meridian Expedition -- 1.4. How the Meridian was measured -- 1.5. From angles to metres -- 1.6. Measuring the base lines -- 1.7. Crun…