"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is this book about? -- 1.2. The evolution of the Universe -- 1.3. The evolution of human thought -- 1.4. The birth of modern physics -- 1.5. Life sciences and their contribution to understanding the world2. Materials science and life sciences -- 2.1. The impact of the production and use of mat…
"Version: 20210205"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.section 1. Light and fluorescence microscopy -- section 2. Light microscopy of tissues and thick samples -- section 3. Super-resolution microscopy -- section 4. X-ray microscopy -- section 5. Electron microscopy -- section 6. Atomic force microscopy and spectroscopy -- section 7. Helium ion microscopy -- section 8. Dynami…
"Version: 20160901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Communicating knowledge: from Ancient Greece to modern days -- 1.3. How to use this book -- 1.4. Summary -- 1.5. Further study2. Publishing work in academic journals -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Scoping your deliverables -- 2.3. Choosing a journal -- 2.4. Writing and…
"Version: 20140801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.The authors -- Glossary of common terms -- Introduction -- The process matrix and how to determine it : quantum process tomography -- Model systems and energy scalesInteraction of light pulses with ensembles of chromophores : polarization gratings -- Laser-induced polarization gratings -- Induced linear and nonlinear pola…
"Version: 20160801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Energy and information -- 2.1. The relativity and contextuality of major physical categories -- 2.2. Boltzmann-Shannon informational entropy -- 2.3. Digital strings and normal numbers -- 2.4. Universal and eternal records, or why pi is not exactly three -- 2.5. Jorge Luis Borge…
"Version: 20160601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Research into and interest in the long air gap discharge -- 1.2. Scope and objectives -- 1.3. Intended audience2. The background of air gap discharge theory -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Ionization phenomena -- 2.3. Cross section and mean free path--elastic collisions -- 2.4. Mobility, di…
"Version: 20141101"--Title page verso.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction -- Composition of the atmosphere -- Observed vertical structureThermodynamics of dry air -- Pressure, temperature and the ideal gas law -- Hydrostatic balance -- Atmospheric energy and the first law of thermodynamics -- Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics -- Static stabilityThermodynamics of moist air -- …
"Version: 20180501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Background and definitions -- 2.1. Classical mechanics -- 2.2. Quantum mechanics -- 2.3. Integrability and superintegrability3. Separation of variables -- 3.1. Some approaches to separability -- 3.2. The Levi-Civita procedure -- 3.3. Nonorthogonal separation : examples -- 3.4. Intrinsic characterizat…
"Version: 20160301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.3. Current models of global radiation oncology -- 3.1. The twinning partnership model for global radiation oncology -- 3.2. The consortium partnership model -- 3.3. The non-profit model for global radiation oncology4. ICT-powered models of global radiation oncology -- 4.1. Potential of ICTs to catalyze global radiation on…
"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- 1. The failure of classical physics and the advent of quantum mechanics -- 1.1. A challenge for classical physics -- 1.2. The photoelectric effect -- 1.3. The Compton effect -- 1.4. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle -- 1.5. The correspondence principle -- 1.6. The Schr?odinger wave equation…