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Lectures on general relativity, cosmology and quantum black holes /
"Version: 20170701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. General relativity essentials -- 1.1. The equivalence principle -- 1.2. Relativistic mechanics -- 1.3. Differential geometry primer -- 1.4. Curvature tensor -- 1.5. The stress-energy-momentum tensor -- 1.6. Einstein's equation -- 1.7. Killing vectors and maximally symmetric spaces -- 1.8. The Hilbert-Einstei…
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The measurement techniques of space geodesy :optical technologies /
"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 …
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From particle physics to medical applications /
"Version: 20170601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 20-21).Introduction : technologies for particle physics -- Medical applications of particle physics -- Particle detectors for medical imaging -- Charpak and the multiwire proportional chamber -- Townsend and PET imaging -- Hadron therapy -- The PIMMS collaboration -- ENLIGHT : collaboration is key -- Medical imagin…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 21 pages) :color illustrations.
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Proton beam therapy /
"Version: 20170101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 23).Introduction -- Why proton beams? -- Technical challenges -- Physics challenges -- Biological challenges -- Clinical challenges -- Outlook.Cancer therapy is a multi-modality approach including surgery, systemic or targeted chemotherapy, radiation (external beam or radionuclide), and immunotherapy. Radiation is t…
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Nuclear dynamics in strong laser fields /
"Version: 20230801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Statement of the problem -- 1.2. A brief review of electromagnetic theory -- 1.3. Laser pulses -- 1.4. The motion of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field -- 1.5. Gauge transformations -- 1.6. The dinuclear system in a laser field -- 1.7. Characterization of laser-nucleus interaction in an…
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Complex light /
"Version: 20170101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 17-18).Introduction -- Background -- Current directions -- Outlook.The emerging field of complex light - the study and application of custom light beams with tailored intensity, polarization or phase - is a focal point for fundamental breakthroughs in optical science. As this review will show, those advances in fun…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 18 pages) :color illustrations.
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Generalized hypergeometric functions :transformations and group theoretical a…
"Version: 20181001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Hypergeometric series -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The Gauss differential equation -- 1.3. Special functions -- 1.4. Properties of the hypergeometric functions -- 1.5. A conjecture2. Group theory: basics -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Invariances, symmetries, and physics -- 2.3. Discrete groups -- 2.4. The symmetric grou…
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Mathematical devices for optical sciences /
"Version: 20190601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Forms of quantum mechanics -- 1.1. The Schr?odinger and Heisenberg pictures -- 1.2. Interaction picture -- 1.3. Density-matrix formulation of quantum mechanics -- 1.4. Further contents of Heisenberg's commutation relations2. Lorentz group and its representations -- 2.1. Lie algebra of the Lorentz group -- 2.2…
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Elliptical mirrors :applications in microscopy /
"Version: 20181001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Research and application of reflective microscopy -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Current situation of research on reflective microscopy -- 1.3. The current situation of application of reflective microscopy -- 1.4. Summary2. Apodization factor and linearly polarized light focusing properties of elliptical mirror -- 2.1. I…
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The Wigner function in science and technology /
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Classical mechanics -- 1.2. Rise of quantum mechanics -- 1.3. Eugene Wigner -- 1.4. Modern devices and simulation -- 1.5. Our approach2. Approaches to quantum transport -- 2.1. Modes and the Landauer formula -- 2.2. The scattering matrix approach -- 2.3. The density matrix -- 2.4. Green's functions…
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