"Version: 20180201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Gravity gradiometry -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. History and recent developments -- 1.3. Classification of existing gravity gradiometers -- 1.4. Gravity gradiometry applications2. Magnetic gradiometry -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. History…
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- part I. Classical theory of light. 2. Electromagnetic field and light-matter interaction -- 2.1. Maxwell's equations, wave equation, and the Helmholtz equation -- 2.2. The propagator for the Helmholtz equation -- 2.3. Helmholtz equation in cylindrical coordinates : Bessel beams -- 2.4. Paraxial approxim…
"Version: 20180801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Motivation and introduction -- 1.1. The four fundamental interactions -- 1.2. Particle exchange and force mediation -- 1.3. Examining a simple model -- 1.4. Relativity emerges -- 1.5. The necessity of fields and a conundrum -- 1.6. Exerc…
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author biography -- 1. Basic field theory -- Newtonian mechanics and Galilean relativity -- The action principle -- The stretched string as a field theory -- The wave equation -- Energy and momentum in field t…
"Version: 20220401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Geometry and physics -- 1.1. Manifolds -- 1.2. Coordinate systems -- 1.3. The Jacobian -- 1.4. Contravariant and covariant quantities -- 1.5. The summation convention -- 1.6. Vectors and direction vectors -- 1.7. Vector addition and the scalar product -- 1.8. The metric tensor and distance in manifolds -- 1.9. The metr…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Gravity gradiometry -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. History and recent developments -- 1.3. Classification of existing gravity gradiometers -- 1.4. Gravity gradiometry applications2. Magnetic gradiometry -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. History and recent developments -- 2.3. Direct string magnetic gradiometer developments -- 2…