"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Revised edition of: Ultrasonic techniques for liquids characterization.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Wave propagation in homogeneous and inhomogeneous materials / Megan J. Povey ; with contributions by Valerie J. Pinfield -- 3. Rheology, acoustics, elasto-dynamics, and the complex moduli / Megan J. Povey ; with contributions by D…
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Optical physics for laser materials processing -- 1.1. Electromagnetic theory of light propagation -- 1.2. Paraxial approximation -- 1.3. The eikonal equation--material polarization approach -- 1.4. The eikonal equation--Fermat's principle approach -- 1.5. Propagation of electromagnetic waves through matter. Lorentz os…
"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…
"Version: 20200801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Mathematical preliminaries -- 1.1. Vectors -- 1.2. Complex numbers -- 1.3. Calculus -- 1.4. Differential equations2. Newton's laws -- 2.1. Newton's laws of motion -- 2.2. The concept of force -- 2.3. Motion under a constant force -- 2.4. Projectiles -- 2.5. Momentum and impulse -- 2.6. Conservation of momentum for isol…
"Version: 202108"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Fusion plasma generalities. 1. Magnetically confined plasma for fusion energy -- 1.1. Worldwide energy needs and fusion plants -- 1.2. Fusion products and energy balance -- 1.3. Magnetic field and confinement -- 1.4. Magnetic mirror and confinement -- 1.5. Plasma as a state of matter -- 1.6. Plasma kinetic theory --…
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Why is lens design hard? -- 1.2. How to use this book2. Fundamentals -- 2.1. Paraxial optics -- 2.2. Lagrange invariant, thin-lens equation -- 2.3. Pupils3. Aberrations -- 3.1. Ray-fan curves -- 3.2. Abbe sine condition -- 3.3. Higher-order aberrations -- 3.4. Spot diagrams -- 3.5. Wavefronts and …
"Version: 20190102"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The chemistry of the early universe -- 1.1. Cosmological background -- 1.2. Big bang nucleosynthesis -- 1.3. The recombination era -- 1.4. Chemistry -- 1.5. Conclusions2. Nucleosynthesis : the origin of the chemical elements -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Nuclei in the cosmos -- 2.3. Primordial nucleosynthesis : from h t…
"Version: 20200401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. A historical, mathematical and optical introduction. 1. A brief history of stigmatic lens design -- 1.1. The rise of geometrical optics -- 1.2. Optics of the ancient Greeks and Arab world -- 1.3. Snell, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Fermat -- 1.4. 19th and 20th century -- 1.5. The computer era and the closure of …
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Page dedicated to Professor Allan D Boardman -- 1. Introductory chapter -- 1.1. Metamaterials : the discovery of 2000th -- 1.2. Characteristic features of the media and wave phenomena in metamaterials and the main approaches to their modeling -- 1.3. Purpose, tasks, and structure of the book2. Metamaterials with active me…
"Version: 20220601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.0. Using the book -- 0.1. The 'user' -- 0.2. The 'researcher' -- 0.3. The 'developer' -- 0.4. The 'expert'part I. Introduction and background knowledge. 1. Imaging particulate and multiphase systems -- 1.1. Particulate and multiphase systems : why do they matter? -- 1.2. The importance of imaging -- 1.3. Particle and flow…