"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The scientific legacy of giant-planet research -- 2. The planet-forming environment -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Disk evolutionary phases and spectral energy distributions -- 2.3. A simple analytical disk model -- 2.4. Model extensions : adding complexity3. Microscopic to macroscopic : grain growth and pebble formation -…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.The challenges in understanding the diversity of rocky planets -- 1. Observations of exoplanets / Elizabeth J. Tasker and Yuka Fujii -- 2. Formation of a rocky planet / Elizabeth J. Tasker -- 3. Magnetic fields on rocky planets / Matthieu Laneuville, Chuanfei Dong, Joseph G. O'Rourke and Adam C. Schneider -- 4. The heat b…
"Version: 20251101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Ethics of a human brain/cloud interface and transparent shadowing / Melanie Swan, Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld and Frank J. Boehm -- 2. Analysis of power, locomotion, communications, and navigation for microbots in the brain / Tad Hogg -- 3. Combining a neural bypass and a neural allograft to develop a prosthetic thalamus / Mi…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Basic physics -- 1.1. The structure of the atom -- 1.2. Characteristic radiation and atomic shells -- 1.3. The electromagnetic spectrum I -- 1.4. The electromagnetic spectrum II -- 1.5. Luminescence -- 1.6. Transverse waves -- 1.7. Longitudinal waves -- 1.8. The inverse square law -- 1.9. Radioactivity in medicine -- 1…
"Version: 20200801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The climate challenge and the solar solution -- 1.1. The big picture : climate change -- 1.2. Why PV : emissions -- 1.3. Why PV : the solar resource -- 1.4. PV today : deployment growth and cost decline2. Market drivers for PV research and development -- 2.1. Capacity cost :3. Opportunities for emerging PV technologies…
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-1-11-4).1. Story of an evolving low mass star : foreword -- 2. Pre main sequence--PMS -- 2.1. Hayashi track -- 2.2. Mean stellar temperature during gravitational contraction -- 2.3. Duration of the PMS phase -- 2.4. List of questions3. Core hydrogen burning -- 3.1. Minimum mass for nuclear burning -- 3.2. Onset …
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Exploring the high-energy universe -- 1.2. The Chandra X-ray Observatory -- 1.3. Mechanisms for the production and absorption of x-rays in a cosmic setting -- 1.4. Stars, planets, and solar system objects -- 1.5. Supernovae and their remnants -- 1.6. X-ray binaries -- 1.7. X-rays from galaxies -- 1…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of basics -- 1.1. About quantum mechanics -- 1.2. Hilbert space -- 1.3. Elementary quantum mechanics -- 1.4. Dirac and von Neumann -- 1.5. Rigged Hilbert space -- 1.6. Observables and Hermitean operators -- 1.7. The uncertainty relation -- 1.8. Commuting observables -- 1.9. Unitary operators -- 1.10. The Gaussian …
"Version: 20200401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Representation of rotations, angular momentum and spin -- 1.1. Rotations in (3, R) -- 1.2. Matrix representations of spin and angular momentum operators -- 1.3. The Pauli spin matrices -- 1.4. Matrix representations of rotations in ket space -- 1.5. Tensor representations for SU(2) -- 1.6. Tensor representations for SO…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A theory of polarized photons -- 1.1. Polarized lightwaves -- 1.2. Polarized photons -- 1.3. Uncertainty in experiments -- 1.4. Dirac bracket notation -- 1.5. Transformation properties of polarizing filter measurements -- 1.6. Multiples of kets -- 1.7. Exercises2. A theory of the Stern-Gerlach experiment for spin-1-2 p…