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"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-46).Foreword -- 1. Origins -- 2. Background -- 3. Gateways -- 4. Summation -- 5. Disclosure.Few artworks have been the subject of more extensive modern interpretation than Melencolia I by renowned artist, mathematician, and scient…
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"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. What is computation? -- 1.1. Defining computation -- 1.2. The roles of computation in scientific research -- 1.3. Further reading2. Computation in science -- 2.1. Traditional science : celestial mechanics -- 2.2. Scientific mo…
"Version: 20240901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Linear theory and applications in AFM. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Oscillations, linear theory, and applications in AFM -- 1.2. Oscillations in general2. Model description -- 2.1. Continuous and point-mass model descriptions of the cantilever-tip system -- 2.2. Simple harmonic motion -- 2.3. Damped oscillations3. Ener…
"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction. The setting for women in physics after World War II -- 2. Women physicists in the national laboratories -- 3. Women physicists in research universities -- 4. Women physicists in industry -- 5. Women physicists in…
"Version: 20230501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Paper-based biosensors : overview from past to future / Narlawar Sagar Shrikrishna, Riya Sharma and Sonu Gandhi -- 2. Paper-based biosensor as an early diagnostic system in medical sciences / Tanusha Pathak, Rachna Parashar, Pragati Raghuwanshi and Aushtosh Singh Raghubanshi -- 3. Fabrication of paper-based immunochrom…
"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Foreword -- 1. The physics of geobiology and geochemistry -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Fundamental scaling relationships : advection versus diffusion -- 1.3. Summary2. Percolation theory, the effective-medium approximation and up…
"Version: 20250601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. General relativity essentials -- 1.1. Equivalence principle -- 1.2. Relativistic mechanics -- 1.3. Differential geometry primer -- 1.4. Curvature tensor -- 1.5. The stress-energy-momentum tensor -- 1.6. Einstein's equation -- 1.7. Killing vectors and maximally symmetric spaces -- 1.8. The Hilbert-Einstein action -- 1.9…
"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Days, months and years -- 1.1. A first discourse on measurement, units and precision -- 1.2. What we see in the sky--stars, planets, Sun and Moon -- 1.3. What the solar system looks like -- 1.4. What a day makes -- 1.5. Discovering the l…