"Version: 20151101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Types of excitations or waves -- 1.2. Survey of types of nanostructures -- 1.3. Experimental techniques for dynamic properties -- 1.4. Theoretical methods for dynamic properties -- 1.5. Photonic band gaps in periodic structures2. Phonons -- 2.1. Lattice dynamics for single surfaces and f…
"Version: 20140801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Theory of optical propagation and diffraction -- The Helmholtz equations -- The integral theorem of Helmholtz and Kirchhoff -- The Rayleigh-Sommerfeld formulation of diffractionFourier analysis and linear systems -- Fourier transforms and Fourier analysis -- Fourier analysis in two dimension…
"Version: 20141201"--Title page verso.Introduction -- Author biographies -- Basic physics -- X-ray imaging -- Imaging theory -- Radiation protection -- Computed tomography -- Ultrasound -- Magnetic resonance -- Nuclear medicine.Knowledge of scientific principles is also mandated as a result of a need to understand best and safest practice, especially in the use of ionising radiation where legis…
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Equation of state for QGP and hadronic resonance gas -- Introduction -- Equation of state for QGP with vanishing quark mass -- Hadronic resonance gas -- The van der Waals equation of state -- HRG in the excluded volume method -- The statistical bootstrap model -- Extended HRGModeling relativistic heavy ion collisions -- I…
"Version: 20140801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.The authors -- Glossary of common terms -- Introduction -- The process matrix and how to determine it : quantum process tomography -- Model systems and energy scalesInteraction of light pulses with ensembles of chromophores : polarization gratings -- Laser-induced polarization gratings -- Induced linear and nonlinear pola…
"Version: 20141201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Glossary of acronyms -- Introduction -- Symmetries : discrete and continuous -- Hadronic physics : the quark-parton model -- The new particles : discovery and study -- The standard model and beyond : where we are and where we are going -- Appendix A. Quantum mechanics -- Appendix B. Scatteri…
"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction : geometrically confined magnetic systems -- 1.1. Magnetic order, dipoles and fields -- 1.2. Effects due to geometry -- 1.3. Exchange interactions -- 1.4. Anisotropic exchange couplings -- 1.5. Local anisotropies -- 1.6. Theory for linear and nonlinear magnetism -- 1.7. Simulations in magnetismp…
"Version: 20150701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Of snails and snakes -- 1.2. The three key elements -- 1.3. Stochasticity -- 1.4. Towards a mathematics of evolution -- 1.5. Organization of this book2. Cell biology and molecular genetics -- 2.1. Cellular architecture and proliferation -- 2.2. DNA, RNA and proteins -…
"Version: 20141001"--Title page verso.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction : getting started -- List of the simulation programs -- How to operate the simulation programs -- Keplerian motions in celestial mechanics -- Numerical and analytical methodsReview of the simulations -- Kepler's laws -- Kepler's first law -- Kepler's second law -- Kepler's third law -- The approximate nature of Ke…
"Version: 20150801"--Title page verso.EPUB version includes embedded videos.Includes bibliographical references.10. Hot carriers in mesoscopic devices -- 10.1. Energy-loss rates -- 10.2. The energy-relaxation time.9. Open quantum dots -- 9.1. Conductance fluctuations in open dots -- 9.2. Pointer states -- 9.3. Hybrid states -- 9.4. Imaging the pointer state scar8. Tunnel devices -- 8.1. Coulomb…