The muon is vital to particle, nuclear, and atomic physics, and a key component of the Standard Model. Muonic processes provide crucial information on the weak interaction. This book explores the various aspects of muon physics, highlighting the most recent experiments conducted.
This book explores the synthesis, characterization, and applications of graphene and its derivatives, including quantum dots. For the first time, both industrial and medical applications are gathered in one book, offering a unique perspective on the future of the field.
This book is devoted to a quasi-classical treatment of quantum transitions, with an emphasis on magnetic and electric dipolar resonance. In addition to known results, it presents parametric resonance for electric dipoles, which may lead to spontaneous electric polarization.
General Relativity Conflict and Rivalries
Galina Weinstein investigates Albert Einstein and his interactions with various scientists, focusing on their implicit and explicit responses to his work. This analysis reveals the central figures who influenced Einstein during his work on the general theory of relativity.
Construction projects require engineers, surveyors, and contractors to interact effectively to ensure a project is built precisely. The knowledge of basic words, concepts, and methods used by surveyors will greatly help engineers during this interaction.
This book takes a historical and geometrical approach to Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. It details the latest developments in the field, including cutting-edge research on gravitational waves, black holes, and cosmology.
Fundamental Optics
This book updates our knowledge of light with new data from reproducible experiments. It presents a new theory which interprets verifiable information according to the various speeds of the lights involved, examining light’s general motions in space.
Semiconductor silicon is the basic material of modern electronics. Its properties are determined by defects in its crystal structure, but a complete description of these defects has been a mystery—until now. This book solves it using classical and probabilistic approaches.
This book presents a theoretical description of fiber Bragg gratings, focusing on channel densification and tunability. It includes full Matlab code to synthesize and optimize various gratings using genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, and tabu search.
Explore magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) as powerful adsorbents for purifying water. This book provides an in-depth overview of MNP synthesis, properties, and applications in removing heavy metals and organic pollutants, enhancing water quality for environmental and human health.
This book discusses the basic tools of mathematical physics for physicists, mathematicians, and engineers. It reveals the indissoluble connection between physical ideas and mathematical concepts, emphasizing the physical origin and flexibility of the equations.
This book presents research on the diffraction, radiation, and propagation of elastic waves, focusing on interactions between bodies and media interfaces. It details solutions to three-dimensional wave problems for isotropic and anisotropic bodies using Debye potentials.
Entropy generation minimization is widely used in thermal problems, sometimes as a unified theory. Is this really the case? This book answers this question, showing the theory has limitations and a definite application scope, beyond which it may provide incorrect results.
This book explains the theory and technology of converting electric energy to other forms, such as thermal, chemical, or mechanical. It offers new calculation methods and operating principles for electrotechnological equipment widely used in Eastern Europe.
The Role of Point Defects in the Luminescence Processes in Inorganic Solids and Phosphor Development
Developing sensitive phosphors for applications like 3D x-ray imaging requires knowledge of point defects in solids, information often lacking. This book bridges the gap, focusing on the crucial role of electron-hole traps for stimulated luminescence phenomena.
Explore bulk and nanostructure crystals, from crystal lattices and band theory to energy gaps. This book discusses low-dimensional systems like graphene and carbon nanotubes and is an ideal introduction for students and researchers in condensed matter physics.
Explore technology by understanding the fundamental principles of physics. For first-year Engineering and BSc courses, this book uses simple English and illustrations from everyday life to explain core concepts. With simplified derivations, solved problems, exercises, and MCQs.
This book describes a new interpretation of the Standard Model based on relations between particle masses and stable intervals in nuclear data. A combined analysis of these two data sets is performed for the first time, revealing many new relations based on the electron.
This lucid analysis of quantum mechanics emphasizes the fundamentals using Dirac’s notation. It explains the latest topics, like Quantum Computing, and features a rich collection of solved examples. This comprehensive text is ideal for graduate and research students in physics.
Pyrometers are calibrated for blackbodies (BB), but real objects radiate differently, causing measurement errors. This book proposes original correction methods that account for an object’s radiation spectrum and its temperature dependence to increase the accuracy of pyrometry.