"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Practical realisation of the length by interferometry??ogeneral principles and limitations -- 1.1. A short history of the metre and the present definition -- 1.2. Realisation of the length by direct measurement of the light travelling time (time-of-flight measurement) -- 1.3. The basic concept of length measurement by …
"Version: 20200601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Physics in food manufacturing : case studies in fundamental and applied research--an introduction / Megan J. Povey -- 2. Modelling heat transfer in foods / D.Flick -- 3. Particle based modelling in industrial processing / Matt D. Sinnott, Paul W. Cleary, Sharen J. Cummins, James E. Hilton, Gerald G. Pereira and Simon M…
"Version: 202110"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Astrophysical observables -- 1.1. Astrophysical information carriers -- 1.2. Cosmic rays -- 1.3. Meteorites -- 1.4. Cosmic dust -- 1.5. Gravitational waves -- 1.6. Neutrinos -- 1.7. Dark matter2. Astronomical optics -- 2.1. Electromagnetic waves -- 2.2. Observables -- 2.3. Geometrical optics : Snell's law -- 2.4. Lenses …
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. An introduction to red supergiants -- 1.1. A key evolutionary phase -- 1.2. Supernova progenitors -- 1.3. Extragalactic probes2. Inside a red supergiant -- 2.1. Evolution and the stellar core -- 2.2. Envelopes and atmospheres3. Physical properties of red supergiants -- 3.1. The spectrum of a red supergiant -- 3.2. Effe…
"Version: 20170401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 18).1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1. What powers cosmic emission? -- 2.2. Cosmic messengers -- 3. Current directions -- 3.1. Gravitational wave observations--LIGO -- 3.2. High-energy neutrino observations--IceCube -- 3.3. Connecting the messengers : combined observations and interpretation -- 4. Outlook -- 5…
"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: 20190301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Considerations on meteoroid entry physics. part I. Meteoroid and meteorite science. 2. The trajectory, structure and origin of the Chelyabinsk impactor -- 2.1. Trajectory -- 2.2. Structure -- 2.3. Origin -- 2.4. Implications3. Properties of meteoroids from forward scatter radio observations -- 3.1. Radio meteor theory …
"Version: 202109"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to multimessenger astronomy : fusing intellect and technology through telescopes -- 1.1. Dream big -- 1.2. Four astrophysical messengers -- 1.3. A brief history of telescopes : from 1608 to neutrino and gravitational wave telescopes -- 1.4. Locations : from city to space2. Electromagnetic radiation -- 2.1. U…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-27).Introduction -- Background -- Laser excitation -- Rydberg lifetimes -- Detection -- Interactions -- Current directions -- Rydberg sensors -- Rydberg quantum optics -- Rydberg quantum simulators -- Outlook.Rydberg physics is the land of gentle giants--highly-excited electronic states where an electron is, on …
"Version: 20190901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Preliminary concepts. 1. The overall picture -- 1.1. The atomistic structure of matter -- 1.2. The quantum nature of physical laws -- 1.3. The dual nature of physical phenomena2. Essential quantum mechanics -- 2.1. The wavefunction -- 2.2. Quantum operators -- 2.3. Time evolution -- 2.4. Systems of identical parti…