"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. What is life? -- 1.2. Could life be silicon-based? -- 1.3. Time constraints -- 1.4. Scenarios for the origin of life on Earth -- 1.5. Searching for life beyond Earth2. Cosmic synthesis of the biologically important c…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Properties of waves -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Periodic waves -- 1.3. Addition of waveforms -- 1.4. Beats -- 1.5. Energy and intensity -- 1.6. Further discussion -- 1.7. Equations -- 1.8. Questions2. Propagation of sound waves -- 2.1. …
"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Concepts and fundamentals -- 1. Introduction : concepts in photoionization interferometry -- 1.1. Quantum metrology -- 1.2. Construction and deconstruction of paradigms : photoionization as interferometry -- 1.3. Something old, some…
"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part III. Developments, methodologies and measurements -- 8. Developing quantum metrology with photoelectrons -- 8.1. Historical development : complete photoionization experiments -- 8.2. Experimental and analysis methodologies9. State-reso…
"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…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Least action -- 1.1. Optics -- 1.2. Newtonian dynamics -- 1.3. Conservation lawsA. Calculus of variation -- B. Mathematics of conservation laws2. Special relativity -- 2.1. The postulates -- 2.2. Lorentz transformations -- 2.3. An analog…
"Version: 20180201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Gravity gradiometry -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. History and recent developments -- 1.3. Classification of existing gravity gradiometers -- 1.4. Gravity gradiometry applications2. Magnetic gradiometry -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. History…
"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: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Wave scattering by many small impedance particles -- 2.1. Scalar wave scattering by one small body of an arbitrary shape -- 2.2. Scalar wave scattering by many small bodies of an arbitrary shape3. Creating materials wi…
"Version: 20190301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Quantum dynamics -- 2.1. Hilbert vector states -- 2.2. Subspace dynamics -- 2.3. von Neumann (density) matrix states -- 2.4. Homework problems3. Atomic potentials -- 3.1. Central field -- 3.2. Harmonic oscillator -- 3.…