"Version: 20190901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. The quantum Hall effect. 1. The normal Hall effect -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The basic physics of the Hall effect -- 1.3. The Hall effect and holes -- 1.4. The effective mass tensor -- 1.5. Applications of the Hall effect2. The i…
"Version: 20190901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Lasers. 1. The basic physics of lasers -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Optical spectra -- 1.3. Stimulated emission -- 1.4. Creating a population inversion -- 1.5. Laser modes and coherence -- 1.6. Problems2. Types of lasers I : convent…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Classical field theory -- 1.1. Lagrangian formalism for fields -- 1.2. The Klein-Gordon field -- 1.3. The electromagnetic field -- 1.4. Lorentz invariance -- 1.5. Transformation of fields under Lorentz transformations -- 1.6. Noether's t…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Path integral formulation of quantum mechanics -- 1.1. The transition probability amplitude -- 1.2. Derivation of the quantum mechanical path integral -- 1.3. Path integral in terms of the Lagrangian -- 1.4. Computing simple path integra…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Seeing Saturn -- 3. Why are there moons and rings?4. A menagerie of moons -- 4.1. The inner mid-sized icy moons -- 4.2. Impacts and craters -- 4.3. Synchronous rotation -- 4.4. Icy satellite tectonics -- 4.5. Interacti…
"Version: 20190801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Parkinson's disease -- 1.1. General -- 1.2. Signs and symptoms -- 1.3. The basal ganglia -- 1.4. Pathophysiology -- 1.5. Risk factors -- 1.6. Animal models -- 1.7. Current treatments -- 1.8. Neuroprotection and future treatments2. The ru…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- part I. Falling bodies and the universality of free fall -- 2. Galileo and free fall3. Newton's pendulum experiment and replications by Bessel and Potter -- 3.1. Newton's pendulum experiment -- 3.2. The experiments of Bes…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Quantum tunnelling devices -- 1.3. Negative differential conductance -- 1.4. Nonlinear dynamics -- 1.5. Optoelectronic integrated circuits (OEICs) -- 1.6. Outline2. Resonant tunnelling diode-elec…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The Andromeda Galaxy -- 1.1. An introduction to Messier 31, the Andromeda Galaxy -- 1.2. Observations of M31 -- 1.3. M31's globular cluster system2. Globular clusters in the Milky Way -- 2.1. An introduction to globular star clusters -- …
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. From membrane biophysics to cell physiology -- 1.2. Review of cell structure and function2. Cell homeostasis -- 2.1. What is cell homeostasis? -- 2.2. Regulatory volume responses -- 2.3. Models of a primary response …