"Version: 20160401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Exploring Earth and beyond -- 1.1. Curiosity -- 1.2. Observations from afar -- 1.3. Personal visits -- 1.4. Robotic visits2. The ABC of exoplanets -- 2.1. What is a planet? -- 2.2. What is an exoplanet? -- 2.3. Detecting exopl…
"Version: 20180301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Concepts in special relativity -- 1.1. Galilean relativity -- 1.2. Inertial frames -- 1.3. Special relativity -- 1.4. Velocity addition, length contraction, and time dilation -- 1.5. Questions2. Tensors in relativity -- 2.1. Motivation -…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Microwave tubes : classification, applications and trends -- 2.1. Classification -- 2.2. Applications -- 2.3. Trends in research and development3. Basic enabling concepts -- 3.1. Cathode -- 3.2. Space-charge-limited an…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.6. Qualitative description of conventional and familiar microwave tubes -- 6.1. Travelling-wave tubes -- 6.2. Klystrons -- 6.3. Klystron variants -- 6.4. Crossed-field tubes7. Fast-wave tubes -- 7.1. Cyclotron resonance maser (CRM) and Weib…
"Version: 20170301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction : dark matter--what we do and do not know -- 1.1. Observational evidence for dark matter -- 1.2. Explanations for dark matter -- 1.3. Sterile neutrinos as dark matter2. Sterile neutrinos--almost part of the Standa…
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction and outline -- 2. Some rules for sum rules -- 2.1. Causality and analyticity -- 2.2. Derivation of dispersion relation -- 2.3. Crossing symmetry -- 2.4. Unitarity -- 2.5. Low-energy theorems -- 2.6. Divergencies, subtraction…
"Version: 20170401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Groups -- 1.1. Permutations and symmetries -- 1.2. Subgroups and classes -- 1.3. Representations -- 1.4. Orthogonality2. Lie groups -- 2.1. Lie groups as manifolds -- 2.2. Lie groups as groups of transformation…
"Version: 20170401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Symmetry, physical laws, and electric dipole moments -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Force field symmetries -- 1.3. Why measure EDMs, which, and how?2. Some essential experiments -- 2.1. Neutron EDM measurements -- 2.2. Penning t…
"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Elementary reactions -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Elementary reactions -- 1.3. The rates of elementary reactions : energetic considerations -- 1.4. The rates of elementary reactions : simple collision theory and the Arrhenius …
"Version: 20171101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. States of matter -- 1.2. Characteristics of the gas phase -- 1.3. Gases and vapours -- 1.4. Phase diagrams and phase transitions : under what conditions is a substance a gas?2. Pressure and temperature -- 2.1. Pressu…