"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of thermodynamics -- 1.1. Introduction : statistical physics and thermodynamics -- 1.2. The 2nd law of thermodynamics, entropy, and temperature -- 1.3. The 1st and 3rd laws of thermodynamics, and heat capacity -- 1.4. Thermodynamic potentials -- 1.5. Systems with variable number of particles -- 1.6. Thermal mach…
"Version: 20251101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The origins of plate diagram theory -- 1.1. Joseph Petzval (1807-1891) -- 1.2. Lancelot Hugh Aldis (1870-1945) -- 1.3. Cecil Reginald Burch (1901-1983) -- 1.4. To the present day2. The plate diagram for a single surface -- 2.1. First-, third-, and high-order -- 2.2. Useful first-order optics -- 2.3. The Schmidt telesco…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of thermodynamics -- 2. Principles of physical statistics -- 3. Ideal and not-so-ideal gases -- 4. Phase transitions -- 5. Fluctuations -- 6. Elements of kinetics -- Appendices. A. Selected mathematical formulas -- B. Selected physical constants.Essential Advanced Physics is a series comprising four parts: Class…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Electrochemical energy storage mechanisms and performance assessments : an overview -- 1.1. Introduction to the current energy landscape -- 1.2 Renewable energy and the need for energy storage devices -- 1.3. Energy storage techniques -- 1.4. Electrochemical energy storage -- 1.5. Electrochemical potential -- 1.6. Charge…
"Version: 20190101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Non-relativistic energy density functionals -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Energy density functional kernels -- 1.3. Pairing and Coulomb functionals2. Covariant energy density functionals -- 2.1. Relativistic description of quantum systems -- 2.2. Symmetry properties of QCD -- 2.3. Effective Lagrangians for nuclear syste…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Chemical vapour phase deposition -- 1.2. Overview of thin film characterization techniques -- 1.3. Theoretical modelling and simulations2. Common CVD reactor setups -- 2.1. General -- 2.2. Classification of CVD reactors3. CVD processes on an atomic level -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Chemical reacti…
"Version: 20190102"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The chemistry of the early universe -- 1.1. Cosmological background -- 1.2. Big bang nucleosynthesis -- 1.3. The recombination era -- 1.4. Chemistry -- 1.5. Conclusions2. Nucleosynthesis : the origin of the chemical elements -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Nuclei in the cosmos -- 2.3. Primordial nucleosynthesis : from h t…
"Version: 20250801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction of nano-microsystems -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Systems for microfluidics and related fields -- 1.3. Analysis and nano-microsystems -- 1.4. About the structure of the book and how it is read -- 1.5. Summary2. Design and concept for system thinking -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Lab-on-a-chip -- 2.3…
"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Theory and context. 1. Nuclear structure and radioactive decay -- 1.1. Introduction to basic atomic and nuclear structure -- 1.2. Radioactive decay -- 1.3. Alpha decay -- 1.4. Beta decay -- 1.5. Fission -- 1.6. Excited states -- 1.7. Transitions between nuclear excited states : electromagnetic decay modes2. Intera…
"Version: 202108"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to cell and matrix mechanics and experimental techniques -- 1.1. Introduction to cell migration and invasion -- 1.2. The effect of heterogeneity of cells and their microenvironments -- 1.3. Cell protuberances change the microenvironment during migration and invasion -- 1.4. Traditional migration and invasion…