This vintage book contains a detailed guide to collecting, preserving, packing, and keeping specimens of birds, eggs, nests, feathers, and skeletons. "The Indian Ornithological Collector's Vade Mecum" constitutes a complete handbook on the subject, and will be of considerable utility to bird watchers, ornithologists, and taxidermists. Contents include: "Material and Instruments Necessary or Use…
"Version: 20170501"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Population and its effects -- 1.1. Population -- 1.2. Water and food -- 1.3. Pollution -- 1.4. The effects of pollution2. Energy conservation and the first law of thermodynamics -- 2.1. The first law of thermodynamics -- 2.2. …
"Version: 20161101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction : from death rays to smartphones2. Optical propagation -- 2.1. Electromagnetic fields -- 2.2. Helmholtz equation and wave optics3. Gaussian beams and lasers -- 3.1. Lasers -- 3.2. Gaussian beams -- 3.3. Coherent a…
"Version: 20160901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1 Concepts in classical mechanics -- 1.1. The quantum-classical boundary -- 1.2. Separation of scales and constraints -- 1.3. Newtonian mechanics -- 1.4. The one-dimensional simple harmonic oscillator -- 1.5. Generalization -- 1.…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 14-1-14-2).Preface -- 1. Nanomanipulation : why optical methods are best -- 2. Key properties of the radiation -- 3. Optically induced mechanical forces -- 4. Laser cooling and trapping of atoms -- 5. Dielectric and metal nanoparticl…
"Version: 20190401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Symmetries and effective Hamiltonians -- 1.1. Crash course on symmetry transformations -- 1.2. Effective Hamiltonians for bulk III-V semiconductors -- 1.3. Hands-on : symmetry analysis of a triple quantum dot2. Electron-couplin…
"Version: 20180301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Hyperbolic metamaterial geometries and basic properties -- 2. Super-resolution imaging using hyperbolic metamaterials : the hyperlens -- 3. Consequences of singular photonic density of states : radiative decay engineering, thermal hyper-…
"Version: 20180601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why are surfaces important? -- 1.2. Ultra-high vacuum science and technology -- 1.3. Exercises2. Thermodynamics of surfaces : equilibrium crystal shape -- 2.1. Surface thermodynamic functions -- 2.2. Surface tension …
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Mathematics and measurement of sound-power flow in fluids -- 2. Calibration and normalization of probes in air -- 3. Mathematics of sound-power flow in solids -- 4. Sound sources and methods of exciting sound -- 5. Sound-power…
"Version: 20180901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Optical communication system structure -- 1.3. Transmitter -- 1.4. Communication channel -- 1.5. Law of refraction -- 1.6. Types of optical fiber and their geometry -- 1.7. Modes in fiber -- 1.8. Adv…