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This book gives a comprehensive overview of the principles of optical imaging. The first seven chapters provide an extensive summary of optical design, as well as the mechanisms and interrelations leading to the formation of aberrations and the ac...

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Leadership and Challenges in Medical Physics: A Strategic and Robust Approach aims to help aspiring future medical physics leaders with effective, strategic and robust leadership skills. The author, Carmel Caruana, is the originator and leader of ...

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This text and the accompanying computer programmes have grown out of an introductory course in quantum mechanics to the author's second-year undergraduates at the University of York. It was intended from the outset that the book would include all ...

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Because artificial sensors have assumed a major role in both domestic and industrial settings, the development of new technologies continues. Sensor Materials is the first publication that approaches the subject of sensors from a materials standpo...

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Written by a veteran professor with international experience, Principles of Modern Thermodynamics presents a solid treatment of the basics as well as more advanced concepts of thermodynamics. Assuming no prior knowledge of thermodynamics, the auth...

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This book is intended as a textbook for the teaching of ISO Pascal to students in universities and polytechnics, but is also suitable for use by those learning Pascal through self-study or distance learning. No previous knowledge of programming is...

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This volume presents 49 key papers published in recent years dealing with silicon-germanium strained layers and their applications. The papers have been selected by Professor Suresh Jain of Oxford University, who also provides a brief review of Si...

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Integrating computer graphics and computer-based exercises with the text, An Introduction to Unconstrained Optimisation illustrates key methods with many examples and exercises using the computer. The book takes an elementary approach to this adva...

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This is a collection of papers from a seminar held in October 1989 to deal with the physical limits of the photovoltaic solar energy conversion and aims to determine the limits of efficiency of solar cells. An introductory chapter analyzes the eff...

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Quantum theory offers a strange, and perhaps unique, case in the history of science. Although research into its roots has provided important results in recent years, the debate goes on. Some theorists argue that quantum theory is weakened by the i...

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Superfluidity and Superconductivity, Third Edition introduces the low-temperature phenomena of superfluidity and superconductivity from a unified viewpoint. The book stresses the existence of a macroscopic wave function as a central principle, pre...

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A reader who is at all acquainted with the large and rapidly growing literature on radiofrequency heating of plasmas will realise that a comprehensive survey of all the theory which has been developed, and the experiments which have been carried o...

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Journeys to the Ends of the Universe presents a tour through the universe from the big bang onward. The book explores the limits of knowledge where scientific fact overtakes and merges with the wilder speculations of science fiction. The beginning...

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Written by the leading authority in the subject, Handbook of Surface Metrology covers every conceivable aspect of measuring and characterizing a surface. Focusing both on theory and practice, the book provides useful guidelines for the design of p...

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A presentation of the basic physical and chemical processes induced by laser irradiation on solid surfaces. Attention is given to radiation-induced reversible and irreversible thermodeformations and simple formulae for temperature distribution in ...

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This book discusses the mathematical ideas that underly the "International Tables for X-Ray Crystallography". It aims to be an introductory account of mathematical crystallography and contains useful information not easily found elsewher...

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This book is about the application of science to one area of public decision making, the determination of water quality. The first part of the book considers mineral water analysis, discussing methodological and epistemic matters, and social and i...

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This book aims to provide an introduction to the basic principles of the LPE technique as applied to the technologically important III-V materials. A balanced assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of this technique against other commonly used...

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We have seen remarkable progress in our detailed understanding of the physical world, from the smallest constituents of atoms to the remotest distances seen by telescopes. However, we have yet to explore the phenomenon of consciousness. Can physic...

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In practical application of the achievements of quantum electronics an important role is played by crystals permitting laser radiation control (frequency modulation, deviation and conversion). There are only a few such crystals known at the presen...

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Computerized databases provide a powerful everyday tool for data handling by scientists and engineers. However, the unique nature of many technical tasks requires a specialized approach to make use of the many powerful commercial database tools no...

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Science and Applications of Conducting Polymers emphasizes potential industrial applications of conducting polymers. The papers presented discuss the basic physics and chemistry of conducting polymers, followed by an in-depth examination of applic...

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The first book devoted to laser techniques in the generation and reception of ultrasonic waves in materials, Laser Ultrasonics: Techniques and Applications provides a full description of the state of the art in all fields involving both lasers and...

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The science of superconducting electronics was first developed over forty years ago, fifty years after the discovery of superconductivity. Since then, a wide range of applications has emerged, and more are envisaged within this ever expanding and ...

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This text examines waves of natural origin (both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial) which disturb the electromagnetic field of the Earth. The study and observation of these waves allows us to better understand the world in which we live, thus prov...

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The book begins with a description of the liquid crystal phase emphasizing its relationship to the other three well-known phases of matter. The types of molecules that form liquid crystal phases and the different liquid crystal phases are then dis...

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About 120 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his now legendary hypothetical "demon" as a challenge to the integrity of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted throughout the development of statistica...

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Covering all aspects of the subject, Signal Recovery from Noise in Electronic Instrumentation, Second Edition examines the interference involved with instruments that employ electronic techniques to measure physical quantities, including random fl...

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All measurements are subject to error because no quantity can be known exactly; hence, any measurement has a probability of lying within a certain range. The more precise the measurement, the smaller the range of uncertainty. Uncertainty, Calibrat...

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Offering a series of well-defined problems supplemented by solutions, Exercises in Practical Astronomy: Using Photographs presents meaningful practical work in elementary astronomy and astrophysics. The book provides authentic astronomical photogr...

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