"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…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Oscillation and wave -- 1.2. Oscillation due to elastic force -- 1.3. Frequency domain analysis of oscillation -- 1.4. Wave2. Wave equations and solutions -- 2.1. Wave equation -- 2.2. Wave solutions3. Basic properti…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Motion in matter -- 3. Vibrating matter -- 4. Rotating matter -- 5. Translating matter6. Quantum translation -- 6.1. Stationary state wavefunctions -- 6.2. Unconstrained one-dimensional translation -- 6.3. One-dimensio…
"Version: 20171001"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is a halo? -- 1.2. Examples of halo nuclei -- 1.3. Experimental evidence for halos -- 1.4. The three phases of halo studies2. The structure of halo nuclei -- 2.1. One-neutron halos -- 2.2. Three-body systems--th…
"Version: 20180201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.1. Introduction -- 2. Thermal properties of materials and temperature measurement -- 2.1. Temperature and heat -- 2.2. Thermal equilibrium -- 2.3. Absolute temperature scale -- 2.4. Thermal expansion3. Heat transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation -- 3.1. Heat c…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. The fluid approximation -- 1.2. The hydrodynamic equations2. Some basic concepts -- 2.1. Visualisation -- 2.2. Sound waves -- 2.3. Compressibility -- 2.4. Rotation of fluid elements -- 2.5. Gravitationally stratified…
"Version: 20180401"--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. Classification of gas discharges -- 1.3. Summarypart I. Ionization -- 2. Foundations from gas dynamics -- 2.1. The atom, the molecule, and excited states -- 2.2. The statistics of a gas -- 2.3. Kinet…
"Version: 20170501"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. The background -- 1.1. The physics -- 1.2. The Manhattan Project2. Nuclear fission -- 2.1. Energy release in fission -- 2.2. Chain reaction timescale -- 2.3. Temperature equivalent of fission fragments -- 2.4. A first glimpse …
"Version: 20170601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The discovery of spiral galaxies -- 2. The classification of galaxies -- 2.1. Elliptical galaxies -- 2.2. Lenticular galaxies -- 2.3. Spiral galaxies -- 2.4. The de Vaucouleurs Classification scheme -- 2.5. Spiral galaxy bulges -- 2.6. S…
"Version: 20171101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. What are electromagnetic waves? -- 1.1. Electromagnetic (EM) radiation -- 1.2. Characterization of EM waves -- 1.3. Basic properties of EM waves2. Lasers and applying EM wave theory -- 2.1. How does a laser work? -- 2.2. Laser resonator …