"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Basic physics -- 1.1. The structure of the atom -- 1.2. Characteristic radiation and atomic shells -- 1.3. The electromagnetic spectrum I -- 1.4. The electromagnetic spectrum II -- 1.5. Luminescence -- 1.6. Transverse waves -- 1.7. Longitudinal waves -- 1.8. The inverse square law -- 1.9. Radioactivity in medicine -- 1…
"Version: 20200801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The climate challenge and the solar solution -- 1.1. The big picture : climate change -- 1.2. Why PV : emissions -- 1.3. Why PV : the solar resource -- 1.4. PV today : deployment growth and cost decline2. Market drivers for PV research and development -- 2.1. Capacity cost :3. Opportunities for emerging PV technologies…
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-1-11-4).1. Story of an evolving low mass star : foreword -- 2. Pre main sequence--PMS -- 2.1. Hayashi track -- 2.2. Mean stellar temperature during gravitational contraction -- 2.3. Duration of the PMS phase -- 2.4. List of questions3. Core hydrogen burning -- 3.1. Minimum mass for nuclear burning -- 3.2. Onset …
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Exploring the high-energy universe -- 1.2. The Chandra X-ray Observatory -- 1.3. Mechanisms for the production and absorption of x-rays in a cosmic setting -- 1.4. Stars, planets, and solar system objects -- 1.5. Supernovae and their remnants -- 1.6. X-ray binaries -- 1.7. X-rays from galaxies -- 1…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of basics -- 1.1. About quantum mechanics -- 1.2. Hilbert space -- 1.3. Elementary quantum mechanics -- 1.4. Dirac and von Neumann -- 1.5. Rigged Hilbert space -- 1.6. Observables and Hermitean operators -- 1.7. The uncertainty relation -- 1.8. Commuting observables -- 1.9. Unitary operators -- 1.10. The Gaussian …
"Version: 20200401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Representation of rotations, angular momentum and spin -- 1.1. Rotations in (3, R) -- 1.2. Matrix representations of spin and angular momentum operators -- 1.3. The Pauli spin matrices -- 1.4. Matrix representations of rotations in ket space -- 1.5. Tensor representations for SU(2) -- 1.6. Tensor representations for SO…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A theory of polarized photons -- 1.1. Polarized lightwaves -- 1.2. Polarized photons -- 1.3. Uncertainty in experiments -- 1.4. Dirac bracket notation -- 1.5. Transformation properties of polarizing filter measurements -- 1.6. Multiples of kets -- 1.7. Exercises2. A theory of the Stern-Gerlach experiment for spin-1-2 p…
"Version: 20210201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Goals of the lecture notes -- 1.2. Classical electrodynamics and its symmetries -- 1.3. Field quantization -- 1.4. The need for discreteness in quantum computing -- 1.5. Symmetries and predictive models2. Classical field theory -- 2.1. Classical action, equations of motion and symmetries -- 2.2. Tr…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Brief history -- 1.2. Organization of the book2. Principles of mechanochemical activation -- 2.1. High-energy mechanochemical activation -- 2.2. Modeling and simulations -- 2.3. Concluding remarks3. Ferroelectric ceramics (I) -- 3.1. Background -- 3.2. Lead-containing unary ferroelectric ceramics -…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.9. Pharmacological modulations -- 9.1. Biological preliminaries -- 9.2. Modeling of competitive antagonist action -- 9.3. Modeling of allosteric interaction -- 9.4. Allosteric modulation of competitive agonist/antagonist action -- 9.5. Modeling of a PDE-5 inhibitorpart II. Applications. 10. The stomach -- 10.1. Anatomical…