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Uses art photography as a point of departure for learning about physics, while also using physics as a point of departure for asking fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an art. Although not a how-to manual, the topics centre around hands-on applications, illustrated by photographic processes easily accessible to students.

Provides an overview of the Standard Model of particle physics including an overview of the discovery and properties of the Higgs boson. The book also summarizes the important investigations into the physics of neutrinos and provides an overview of the interpretation of these studies.

Uses art photography as a point of departure for learning about physics, while also using physics as a point of departure for asking fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an art. The topics centre around hands-on applications, most-often illustrated by photographic processes that are inexpensive and easily accessible to students.

Introduces the diversity of structures that are now known to exist in solids through a consideration of quasicrystals and the various structures of elemental carbon and through an analysis of their relationship to conventional crystal structures.

Uses art photography as a point of departure for learning about physics, while also using physics as a point of departure for asking fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an art. The topics centre around hands-on applications, most-often illustrated by photographic processes that are inexpensive and easily accessible to students.

The International Linear Collider is a mega-scale, technically complex project, requiring large financial resources. Such a big project has to be discussed publicly, and the planned goals clearly formulated. This book discusses why this project is important and which new discoveries can be expected.

Up until the mid-1920s, many physicists did not believe in the reality of molecules. Indeed, it was not until after the physics community had accepted Ernest Rutherford's 1913 solar-system-like model of the atom that physicists started to take seriously the necessity of explaining the chemical changes that chemists had been observing.

We often wonder whether or not athletes will reach certain peaks and what determines their limits of athletic performance. Science is uniquely equipped to answer these kinds of questions. This book has the primary goal of communicating understandable scientific explanations of athletic performance.

The growing number of scientific and technological applications of plasma physics in the field of Aerospace Engineering requires that graduate students and professionals understand their principles. This introductory book is intended as a reading guide, addressed to students and non-specialists to tackle later with more advanced texts.

Written from the perspective of an experimental chemist, this book puts together some fundamentals from chemistry, solid state physics and quantum chemistry, to help with understanding and predicting the electronic and optical properties of organic semiconductors, both polymers and small molecules.

The first course in software engineering is the most critical. Education must start from an understanding of the heart of software development. This book is an in-depth introduction to software engineering that uses a systematic, universal kernel to teach the essential elements of all software engineering methods.

Holographic dualities are at the forefront of contemporary physics research, peering into the fundamental nature of our universe and providing best attempt answers to humankind's bold questions about basic physical phenomena. This book brings aspects of holography research into the class room.

Provides a concise introduction to both the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity. The format is chosen to provide the basis for a single semester course which can take the students all the way from the foundations of special relativity to the core results of general relativity.

Provides a concise treatment of atomic physics and a basis to prepare for work in other disciplines that are underpinned by atomic physics such as chemistry, biology and several aspects of engineering science. The focus is mainly on atomic structure since this is primarily responsible for the physical properties of atoms.

Introduces methods of THz generation and nonlinear THz spectroscopy in a tutorial way, discusses the relevant theoretical concepts, and presents prototypical, experimental, and theoretical results in condensed matter physics. The potential of nonlinear THz spectroscopy is illustrated by recent research, including an overview of relevant literature.

The objective of this book is to collect together the basic science and technology that underlies the Electrostatic Accelerator field so it can serve as a handbook, reference guide and textbook for accelerator engineers as well as students and researchers who work with Electrostatic Accelerators.

Describes the ideal magnetohydrodynamic theory for magnetically conned fusion plasmas. Advanced topics are presented in attempting to fill the gap between the up-to-date research developments and plasma physics textbooks.

The concept of drug targeting as a magic bullet has led to research in chemical modification to design and optimize the binding to targeted receptors. This book covers advances based on different drug delivery systems: polymeric and hyper branched nanomaterials, carbon-based nanomaterials, nature-inspired nanomaterials, and pathogen-based carriers.

Examines time-resolved optically stimulated luminescence and is suitable for researchers with an interest in the study of point-defects using luminescence methods. The book first sets the method within the context of luminescence field at large and then provides an overview of the instrumentation used.

Scientists now have a basic blueprint or roadmap of how a single damaged cell can develop into a pre-malignant lesion, a primary tumour, and finally, a lethal tumour that may spread throughout the body and resist both medical therapy and host immune responses. This book provides an overview of our current understanding of this cancer blueprint.

Demonstrates Microsoft EXCEL-based Fourier transform of selected physics examples. Spectral density of the auto-regression process is also described in relation to Fourier transform. Readers can also acquire and analyze their own data following the step-by-step procedure explained in the book.

Begins with the history and fundamentals of optical fiber communications. The book then introduces existing optical multiplexing techniques and finally focuses on spatial domain multiplexing (SDM), aka space division multiplexing, and orbital angular momentum of photon based multiplexing.

Domain theory, a subject that arose as a response to natural concerns in the semantics of computation, studies ordered sets which possess an unusual amount of mathematical structure. This book explores its connection with quantum information science and the concept that relates them: disorder.

Discusses a new error concept dispensing with the common practice to randomize unknown systematic errors. Instead, unknown systematic errors are treated as what they physically are - namely as constants being unknown with respect to magnitude and sign.

Contains an extensive illustration of use of the finite difference method in solving the boundary value problem numerically. A wide class of differential equations are numerically solved in this book. Starting with differential equations of elementary functions like hyperbolic, sine and cosine, the book solves special functions such as Hermite.

While every galaxy in the Universe is interesting just by its very fact of being, the author of this book has selected 60 that possess some unusual qualities that make them of particular interest. These galaxies have complex evolutionary histories, with some having supermassive black holes at their core, while others are powerful radio sources.

Provides medical and graduate students, medical and surgical residents, and subspecialty fellows a comprehensive summary of digestive system physiology and addresses the pathophysiological processes that underlie some GI diseases. The textual approach proceeds by organ, allowing the reader to track the food bolus through the GI tract.

Offers a short introduction to classical field theory, most suitable for undergraduate students who have had at least intermediate-level courses in electromagnetism and classical mechanics. The main theme of the book is showcasing the role of fields in mediating action-at-a-distance interactions.

In the field of particle and astrophysics, one of the major unresolved problems is to understand the nature and properties of dark matter, which constitutes almost 80% of the matter of the universe. This book gives a pedagogical introduction to the field of dark matter in general, and in particular to the model building perspective.

Describes the physics of particle behaviour in the design, construction, and operation of light sources and colliders. Starting with an outline of the history, uses, and structure of electron storage rings, the book develops the foundations of beam dynamicss. The aim is to emphasize the physics behind key phenomena.