"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. The basic concept of performing measurements -- 1.2. Error sources in performing measurements -- 1.3. Time series analysis2. Time and frequency -- 2.1. Historical background : a short history of time -- 2.2. Clocks used in space geodesy -- 2.3. From frequency to time -- 2.4. Historically important …
"Version: 20200701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A small error : the origin of spherical aberration -- 2. The road to redemption : learning to service in space -- 3. The sharper image : correcting spherical aberration -- 4. Leading the way : preparing to service Hubble -- 5. To the rescue : the first servicing mission -- 6. Transfiguration : life without spherical ab…
"Version: 20230901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A brief introduction to the physics of non-accreting white dwarfs -- 1.1. A historical background of the study of white dwarfs -- 1.2. Electron degeneracy -- 1.3. The inverse relation between WD mass and radius -- 1.4. The Chandrasekhar limit -- 1.5. Core compositions versus WD mass -- 1.6. Cooling evolution -- 1.7. WD…
"Version: 20130910"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Acknowledgments and dedications -- Author biography -- Introduction -- Why renewables? -- Which sources are emerging? -- What are the problems? -- The structure of this bookPower -- Hydro -- Wind power -- Wave power -- Tidal power -- Power in perspectiveHeat -- Bioenergy -- Solar heat -- Geothermal heat and power -- Heat …
"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. A brief history of embedding -- 1.2. Overview -- 1.3. A note on Green functions -- 1.4. Units2. The variational embedding method -- 2.1. The variational principle -- 2.2. The embedded Schr?odinger equation -- 2.3. A first application -- 2.4. The embedded Green function -- 2.5. Applicatio…
"Version: 20130901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction -- What is included in device modeling? -- What is in this book?Electronic structure -- Periodic potentials -- Potentials and pseudopotentials -- Real-space methods -- Momentum space methods -- The k.p method -- The effective mass approximation -- Semiconductor alloysLattice dyn…
"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Basic concepts of single networks -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Degree distribution--how networks are structured? -- 1.3. Percolation transition--how a network collapses? -- 1.4. Further network properties -- 1.5. Spatial networks2. From single networks to networks of networks -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. How networks n…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- part I. Mathematical theory of composite materials2. Material properties and governing equations -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Conductivity and elasticity -- 2.3. Abstract Hilbert space framework -- 2.4. Boundary value problems -- 2.5. Geometry of local spaces3. Composite materials -- 3.1. Mat…
Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction -- General remarks about the book -- Instructions for readersImage digitization -- Introduction -- Image discretization -- Signal scalar quantization -- Image compressionDigital image formation and computational imaging -- Introduction -- Image recovery from sparse irregularly sampled data. Recovery of images with occlusions -- Numerical reconstructio…
"Version: 20141101"--Title page verso.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction -- Composition of the atmosphere -- Observed vertical structureThermodynamics of dry air -- Pressure, temperature and the ideal gas law -- Hydrostatic balance -- Atmospheric energy and the first law of thermodynamics -- Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics -- Static stabilityThermodynamics of moist air -- …