"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Revised edition of: Ultrasonic techniques for liquids characterization.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Wave propagation in homogeneous and inhomogeneous materials / Megan J. Povey ; with contributions by Valerie J. Pinfield -- 3. Rheology, acoustics, elasto-dynamics, and the complex moduli / Megan J. Povey ; with contributions by D…
"Version: 20180501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Electric charge interaction -- 2. Charges and conductors -- 3. Dipoles and dielectrics -- 4. DC current -- 5. Magnetism -- 6. Electromagnetism -- 7. Electromagnetic wave propagation -- 8. Radiation, scattering, interference, and diffraction -- 9. Special relativity -- 10. Radiation by relativistic charges.Essential Adv…
"Version: 20180501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Electric charge interaction -- 1.1. The Coulomb law -- 1.2. The Gauss law -- 1.3. Scalar potential and electric field energy -- 1.4. Problems2. Charges and conductors -- 2.1. Polarization and screening -- 2.2. Capacitance -- 2.3. The simplest boundary problems -- 2.4. Using other orthogonal coordinates -- 2.5. Variable…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Page dedicated to Professor Allan D Boardman -- 1. Introductory chapter -- 1.1. Metamaterials : the discovery of 2000th -- 1.2. Characteristic features of the media and wave phenomena in metamaterials and the main approaches to their modeling -- 1.3. Purpose, tasks, and structure of the book2. Metamaterials with active me…
"Version: 20180901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. What is a liquid crystal? -- 2.1. Protons, electrons and atoms -- 2.2. Molecules -- 2.3. Phases of matter -- 2.4. Liquid crystal3. Light -- 3.1. What is light? -- 3.2. Polarised light -- 3.3. Circular polarisation -- 3.4. How is light affected by matter? -- 3.5. Light and anisotropic materials -- 3.6…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. General remarks : units -- 1.2. Inertial reference frames -- 1.3. Tensor fields2. Basic notions and equations of electrodynamics -- 2.1. Electrodynamics in vacuum -- 2.2. Maxwell's equations in integral form -- 2.3. Initial-boundary problem for Maxwell system in vacuum -- 2.4. Vector and scalar pot…
"Version: 20180801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Phase space -- 2. Evolution of the phase space distribution function -- 3. Equilibrium distributions -- 4. Ensemble of free particles -- 5. Ensemble of interacting particles -- 6. Temperature -- 7. Pressure, stress and tension -- 8. Entropy -- 9. Gibbs distribution -- 10. Isothermal ensemble -- 11. Free energy -- 12. G…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. What is computation? -- 1.1. Defining computation -- 1.2. The roles of computation in scientific research -- 1.3. Analog computing -- 1.4. Further reading2. Computation in science -- 2.1. Traditional science : celestial mechanics -- 2.2. Scientific models and computation -- 2.3. Computation at the interface between obs…
"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Optical information security systems based on a gyrator wavelet transform -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Theory -- 1.3. Applications of a gyrator wavelet transform -- 1.4. Conclusion2. Optical one-way hash function -- part A. Introduction to the one-way hash function -- A.1. One-way hash function--acquire the 'fingerprin…
"Version: 20191001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Quantum hydrogenic atoms or ions in a high-frequency laser field -- 3. Classical (Rydberg) hydrogen atoms in a high-frequency laser field : celestial analogies -- 4. Rydberg states of muonic-electronic helium atoms or helium-like ions -- 5. A circumbinary planet around a binary star in Einstein's gen…