"Version: 20140201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.About the author -- Introduction -- Guide through the nanocarbon jungle -- Further information.Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers."Buckyball, onion, nanobud, peapod -- what are these buzzwords about?" was …
"Version: 20140301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Nonlinearity in classical mechanics -- A pendulum -- Vibration by a nonlinear spring force -- A jumping rope -- Hyperbolic and elliptic functions -- Variation principle -- Buckling deformation of a rodWave propagation, singularities and bou…
"Version: 20140301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Measurement in antiquity -- Man is the measure of all things -- Seeds and cosmic forces -- The Bronze-Age -- The Roman Empire -- Further readingMeasurement in the early modern period -- 'Measured by the king's iron rod' -- Measuring the wor…
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- List of symbols -- Author biography -- Introduction to molecular spectroscopy and photophysicsThe electronic and nuclear structure of molecules -- Nuclear motions -- How far do the atoms move? -- Representations of the electronic and vibrational statesMechanism for the absorption of light -- State populations -…
"Version: 20141201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author biography -- Liquid crystals -- Experiments with liquid crystals -- The liquid crystal display -- Accompanying concepts -- Elementary teaching module -- Further reading."The aim of the textbook is to in…
"Version: 20141101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The authors -- The cryosphere -- Permafrost -- Snow -- Land ice -- Sea ice -- Recent changes in the cryosphere.Introduction to the Physics of the Cryosphere is intended for graduates with a numerical sciences …
"Version: 20150301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Author biography -- Brief theory of photoemission spectroscopy -- Quantum mechanics revisited -- Photoemission spectroscopy as a bound eigenvalue energy probe -- The photoemission process -- The three step mode…
Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction -- Gauge theories -- Gauge gravity dualityQuantum phase transitions -- Quantum Ising model -- XY model -- Other modelsGravitation -- Basics of general relativity -- Anti-de Sitter spaceAdS/CFT correspondence -- Formalism -- Scalar fields -- Finite temperature -- Finite chemical potentialDynamics -- Linear response t…
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- Bibliography -- Elements of many-particle physics -- Green's functions in condensed matter physics -- Formal properties of Green's functions -- Perturbation theory and Feynman diagramsDielectric theory of the solid -- Electromagnetic fields in solids -- Dielectric properties of ionic crystals -- Dielectric response of the free electron gasTran…
"Version: 20140401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Biography -- Introduction -- Quantum information -- Quantum communications -- Quantum computing -- Quantum sensors -- Relativistic quantum information -- SummarySpecial and general relativity -- Special relativity -- Lorentz transformations -- Lagrangian dynamics -- The principle of equivale…