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Fundamentals of Physics I
A beloved introductory physics textbook, now including exercises and an answer key, explains the concepts essential for thorough scientific understanding.
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Physics and Chemistry of Clouds
Clouds affect our daily weather and play key roles in the global climate. Through their ability to precipitate, clouds provide virtually all of the fresh water on Earth and are a crucial link in the hydrologic cycle. With ever-increasing importance being placed on quantifiable predictions – from forecasting the local weather to anticipating climate change – we must understand how clouds operate in the real atmosphere, where interactions with natural and anthropogenic pollutants are common. This textbook provides students – whether seasoned or new to the atmospheric sciences – with a quantitative yet approachable path to learning the inner workings of clouds. Developed over many years of the authors' teaching at Pennsylvania State University, Physics and Chemistry of Clouds is an invaluable textbook for advanced students in atmospheric science, meteorology, environmental sciences/engineering and atmospheric chemistry. It is also a very useful reference text for researchers and professionals.
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Study of nuclear properties with muonic atoms
Muons are a fascinating probe to study nuclear properties. Muonic atoms can easily be formed by stopping negative muons inside a material. The muon is subsequently captured by the nucleus and, due to its much higher mass compared to the electron, orbits the nucleus at very small distances. During this atomic capture process, the muon emits characteristic X-rays during its cascade down to the ground state. The energies of these X-rays reveal the muonic energy level scheme, from which properties like the nuclear charge radius or its quadrupole moment can be extracted. While almost all stable elements have been examined using muons, probing highly radioactive atoms has so far not been possible. The muX experiment has developed a technique based on transfer reaction inside a high-pressure hydrogen/deuterium gas cell to examine targets available only in microgram quantities.
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Fundamentals of physics. II, Electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics
R. Shankar, a well-known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, was among the first to offer a course through the innovative Open Yale Course program. His popular online video lectures on introductory physics have been viewed over a million times. In this second book based on his online Yale course, Shankar explains essential concepts, including electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics. The book begins at the simplest level, develops the basics, and reinforces fundamentals, ensuring a solid foundation in the principles and methods of physics.
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Handling and dosimetry of laser-driven ion beams for applications
The acceleration processes based on the coherent interaction of high-power lasers with matter are, by now, one of the most interesting topics in the field of particle acceleration, becoming day by day a real alternative to conventional approaches. Some of the extraordinary peculiarities of laser–matter interaction, such as the production of multi-species (gamma, X-rays, electrons, protons and ions), short-pulsed and intense beams are particularly attracting for many applications as well as for fundamental physics. In particular, laser-accelerated protons, if well controlled in terms of final energy spread, divergence and dose rate, could lead to investigate new research regimes in the field of medical physics, as well as in radiobiological applications. Many approaches are currently being developed aiming at optimizing the laser–target interaction mechanism and at collecting and selecting through dedicated transport beamlines the laser-accelerated proton beams in a future perspective to use them for the medical and radiobiological applications with a reduced uncertainty. An overview of the main parameters characterizing the laser-accelerated protons and of the transport, diagnostics and dosimetry solutions, currently adopted from the laser community, will be provided in this contribution.
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