Iop Concise Physics imprint: 189 books
by H. Thomas Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
After a quarter century of discoveries that rattled the foundations of classical mechanics and electrodynamics, the year 1926 saw the publication of two works intended to provide a theoretical structure to support new quantum explanations of the subatomic world. Heisenberg's matrix mechanics and Schrodinger’s...
Searching for Habitable Worlds
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
What does it take to consider a planet potentially habitable? If a planet is suitable for life, could life be present? Is life on other planets inevitable? Searching for Habitable Worlds answers these questions and provides both the general public and astronomy enthusiasts with a richly illustrated...
Elementary Cosmology
From Aristotle's Universe to the Big Bang and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Cosmology is the study of the origin, size, and evolution of the entire universe. Every culture has developed a cosmology, whether it be based on religious, philosophical, or scientific principles. In this book, the evolution of the scientific understanding of the Universe in Western tradition is...
Quantum Metrology with Photoelectrons
Volume II: Applications and Advances
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Since the turn of the century, the increasing availability of photoelectron imaging experiments, along with the increasing sophistication of experimental techniques, and the availability of computational resources for analysis and numerics, has allowed for significant developments in such photoelectron...
by Marc S Seigar
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
How does it happen that billions of stars can cooperate to produce the beautiful spirals that characterize so many galaxies, including ours? This book reviews the history behind the discovery of spiral galaxies and the problems faced when trying to explain the existence of spiral structure within...
The Ringed Planet
Cassini's Voyage of Discovery at Saturn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In September 2017, the Cassini spacecraft will point itself toward the atmoshpere of Saturn and end its 13-year mission of solving many of the mysteries of the ringed planet's system with a crash. This book is a dramatic, beautifully illustrated journey of discovery through the Saturn system. Cassini's...
by Jonathan Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The book is an introduction to the subject of fluid mechanics, essential for students and researchers in many branches of science. It illustrates its fundamental principles with a variety of examples drawn mainly from astrophysics and geophysics as well as from everyday experience. Prior familiarity with basic thermodynamics and vector calculus is assumed.
Earthquakes
The Sound of Multi-modal Waves
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book is an introduction to wave dynamics as they apply to earthquakes, among the scariest, most unpredictable, and deadliest natural phenomena on Earth. Since studying seismic activity is essentially a study of wave dynamics, this text starts with a discussion of types and representations, including...
by Asahel Banobre, N.M. Ravindra, Sita Rajyalaxmi Marthi
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Optical properties, particularly in the infrared range of wavelengths, continue to be of enormous interest to both material scientists and device engineers. The need for the development of standards for data of optical properties in the infrared range of wavelengths is very timely considering the...
High Power Microwave Tubes
Basics and Trends, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Volume 2 of the book begins with chapter 6, in which we have taken up conventional MWTs (such as TWTs, klystrons, including multi-cavity and multi-beam klystrons, klystron variants including reflex klystron, IOT, EIK, EIO and twystron, and crossed-field tubes, namely, magnetron, CFA and carcinotron)....
Visual Astronomy
A Guide to Understanding the Night Sky
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Visual Astronomy introduces the basics of observational astronomy, a fundamentally limitless opportunity to learn about the universe with your unaided eyes or with tools such as binoculars, telescopes, or cameras. The book explains the essentials of time a
by Claire Vallance
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
The book is a short primer on chemical reaction rates based on a six-lecture first-year undergraduate course taught by the author at the University of Oxford. The book explores the various factors that determine how fast or slowly a chemical reaction proceeds and describes a variety of experimental...
by Lucas F de Freitas, Michael R Hamblin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book provides detailed and current information on using fullerenes (bucky-balls) in photodynamic therapy (PDT), one of the most actively studied applications of photonic science in healthcare. This will serve as a useful source for researchers working in photomedicine and nanomedicine, especially...
Photomedicine and Stem Cells
The Janus Face of Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) to Kill Cancer Stem Cells, and Photobiomodulation (PBM) to Stimulate Normal Stem Cells
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Janus, the ancient Roman god depicted with two faces is an appropriate metaphor for light therapy. In the right photodynamic therapy conditions, light is able to kill nearly anything that is living such as cancers, microorganisms, parasites, and more. On the opposite face, light of the correct wavelength...