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Complex light /
"Version: 20170101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 17-18).Introduction -- Background -- Current directions -- Outlook.The emerging field of complex light - the study and application of custom light beams with tailored intensity, polarization or phase - is a focal point for fundamental breakthroughs in optical science. As this review will show, those advances in fun…
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The quantum nature of light :from photon states to quantum fluids of light /
"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Motivation -- 1.2. Photons, waves and fields -- 1.3. A necessary notepart I. Basic photon states. 2. Field quantisation -- 2.1. Quantum mechanical background -- 2.2. Harmonic oscillator -- 2.3. Electromagnetic field quantisation -- 2.4. Canonical quantisation -- 2.5. Photon wavefunction -- 2.6. Qua…
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Space weather /
"Version: 20170101"--Title page verso.Introduction : what is space weather? -- The physics of space weather -- The role of research in mitigating space-weather risks -- Some critical issues in space weather research -- Looking to the future.Space weather--changes in the Earth's environment that can often be traced to physical processes in the Sun--can have a profound impact on critical Earth-ba…
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- 1 online resource (x, 23 pages) :color illustrations.
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Full field optical metrology and applications /
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Foundations of optical interferometry -- 1.1. Light waves -- 1.2. Types of interferometers -- 1.3. Interference of light waves -- 1.4. Multiple wave interference -- 1.5. White-light interferometry -- 1.6. Holographic interferometry2. Coherence -- 2.1. Introduction : the background -- 2.2. Basic principles of coherence …
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The dark universe /
"Version: 20170201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- Background -- Dark matter -- Dark energy -- Flat [lambda]CDM and the cosmological parameters of the Universe -- Current directions -- Weak gravitational lensing -- Baryon acoustic oscillations -- Galaxy clusters -- Redshift space distortions -- Outlook.Just over 95% of our Universe comes in the shrouded fo…
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Condensed matter physics :a modern perspective /
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Electron liquid -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Jellium model -- 1.3. Properties of the electron liquid -- 1.4. Determination of the Fermi surface : the de Haas-Van Alphen effect -- 1.5. Fermi liquid theory -- 1.6. Summary and outlook2. Magnetic phenomena in solids -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Magnetic ordering : diamagne…
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Some critical questions in biological physics :a guided tour around the bugbe…
"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Molecular communication--crackling phone lines -- 2. How dynein works and other motor proteins -- 3. How brains work--wiring and consciousness -- 4. Spike trains and the senses--the mouse's whiskers -- 5. Elastic turbulence--gloopy chaos -- 6. How mucus works--the 21 mysteries in man -- 7. Synthetic biology-…
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Active galactic nuclei :fueling and feedback /
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Some brief history -- 1.2. Excitation of lines, masses -- 1.3. Variability and size -- 1.4. Global spectrum SED -- 1.5. The central engine -- 1.6. The AGN zoo, blazars, quasars, and others -- 1.7. Emission lines, and the BPT diagnostics -- 1.8. Unification models -- 1.9. Radio galaxies, and radio pro…
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Sun protection :a risk management approach /
"Version: 20171001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction to risk management -- 1.1. Risk, hazard and exposure -- 1.2. Risk management -- 1.3. Sun exposure and risk -- 1.4. A risk management approach to sun protection2. The origin and beneficial effects of solar UV radiation -- 2.1. The nature of optical radiation -- 2.2. The Sun -- 2.3. Th…
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Single-particle cryo-EM of biological macromolecules /
"Version: 20210205"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction and overview -- 1.1. Visualizing biological molecules to understand life's principles -- 1.2. Recovery of 3D structures from images of weak-phase objects2. Sample preparation -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. Initial screening of samples in negative stain -- 2.3. Standard method of making grids for cryo-EM -- 2.4. …
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