"Version: 20230401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Building blocks of matter -- 1.2. Fundamental forces -- 1.3. Overview of nuclear medicine2. A brief history of nuclear medicine -- 2.1. Radioactivity -- 2.2. Production of radionuclides for medicine -- 2.3. Diagnostic imaging3. Radioactivity -- 3.1. Nuclear stability -- 3.2. Radioactive decay proce…
"Version: 20220501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Stellar structure -- 1.2. Equations of stellar structure -- 1.3. Our Sun -- 1.4. Stellar atmospheres -- 1.5. Stellar evolution1.6. Galaxies -- 2. The Milky Way Galaxy -- 2.1. Coordinate systems, parallax and radial velocities -- 2.2. The equatorial coordinate system -- 2.3. Rotational transformatio…
"Version: 20220501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Historical and conceptual introduction to the standard cosmological model -- 1.1. Fundamental ideas in cosmology -- 1.2. Cosmology in western culture before the twentieth century -- 1.3. Origin and evolution of the standard cosmological model -- 1.4. Pillars of the standard model -- 1.5. Towards a sceptical position on…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Messengers of astrophysics -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Electromagnetic radiation -- 1.3. Cosmic rays -- 1.4. Neutrinos -- 1.5. Gravitational waves2. From dust ... the birth and death of stars -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Stellar birth -- 2.3. Stellar death3. To dust ... the birth and death of planets -- 3.1. Introduct…
"Version: 20221001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Solving scientific problems -- 1.2. Solving astrophysical mysteries--deep space forensics -- 1.3. Further reading2. How we see the universe -- 2.1. Light -- 2.2. Particles -- 2.3. Gravitational waves -- 2.4. Looking back in time -- 2.5. Further reading3. Inventory of the universe--something is miss…
"Version: 20200601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Gaseous atoms or molecules : what happens at ultra-low temperature? -- 1.1. Why do gaseous atoms and molecules float? -- 1.2. Is transition to liquid or solid phase always possible? -- 1.3. Special characters of cold atoms and molecules in gaseous state2. Role of laser light to search the structure of atoms and molecul…
"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. On the sizes of atoms -- 1.2. Spectroscopy, the quantum concept, and the Balmer formula -- 1.3. Circular orbit forces and energetics -- 1.4. The radiative collapse problem2. The Bohr model I : hydrogenic atoms -- 2.1. Niels Bohr : early life and paper I of the trilogy -- 2.2. The Bohr model : orbi…
"Version: 20210201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Two flavors of hydrogen atoms : a possible explanation of dark matter -- 2.1. The mystery and its resolution through a fundamental discovery -- 2.2. An alternative kind of hydrogen atom as a possible explanation of the latest puzzling observation of the 21 cm radio line from the early Universe -- 2.3…
"Version: 20210207"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction to molecular spectroscopy and photophysics -- 1.1. The distinctiveness of molecular interactions with light -- 1.2. Properties of molecules and their spectra -- 1.3. The electromagnetic spectrum -- 1.4. Photon properties : polarisation and spin2. Atoms and molecules : developing principles of ele…
"Version: 202111"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Debye screening of circular Rydberg states of hydrogenic systems in collinear electric and magnetic fields of arbitrary strengths -- 3. The shape of spectral lines of two-electron Rydberg atoms/ions : analytical solution -- 4. Helium atoms and helium-like ions in the high-frequency laser field -- 5. Cl…