Preface - Electrodynamics: Introduction -- Potential and Electric Field of Discrete Charge Distributions -- Boundary Problem of Electrostatics -- Two Ions in the Penning Trap -- Exercises -- Packages and Programs - Quantum Mechanics: Introduction -- The Schrödinger Equation -- One Dimensional Potential -- The Harmonic Oscillator -- Anharmonic Oscillator -- Motion in the Central Force Field -- …
Particle in Gravitational Field -- Fundamentals of Riemann Geometry -- Einstein Equations -- Weak Field. Observable Effects -- Variational Principle. Exact Solutions -- Interaction of Spin with Gravitational Field -- Gravitational Waves -- General Relativity and Cosmology -- Are Black Holes Really Black?.This book offers an alternative to other textbooks on the subject, providing a more specifi…
A unified model for black hole X-ray binary jets? -- On the relationship between the jets from X-ray binaries and AGN -- A transition in the accretion properties of AGN -- Jet-disc coupling in the accreting black hole XTE J1118+480 -- Are 3C 120 and other active galactic nuclei overweight microquasars? -- A fundamental plane of black hole activity: Pushing forward the unification scheme -- Magn…
Selected Aspects of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses and Nonlinear Optics -- The Lorentz Oscillator Model and Beyond … -- The Drude Free-Electron Model and Beyond … -- Lorentz Becomes Drude: Bound—Unbound Transitions -- Accounting for Propagation Effects -- Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Semiconductors and Isolators -- Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Atoms and Electrons.Following the birth of the laser in…
Introduction -- The Ernst Equation -- Riemann-Hilbert Problem and Fay's Identity -- Analyticity Properties and Limiting Cases -- Boundary Value Problems and Solutions -- Hyperelliptic Theta Functions and Spectral Methods -- Physical Properties -- Open Problems -- Riemann Surfaces and Theta Functions -- Ernst Equation and Twister Theory -- Index.Exact solutions to Einstein`s equations have been …
The Four-Dimensional Spacetime -- The Evolution Formalism -- Free Evolution -- First Order Hyperbolic Systems -- Boundary Conditions -- Black Hole Simulations -- References -- Index.Spurred by the current development of numerous large-scale projects for detecting gravitational radiation, with the aim to open a completely new window to the observable Universe, numerical relativity has become a m…
Neutron Star Formation -- Young Neutron Stars and Their Wind Nebulae -- Neutron Star Superfluidity, Dynamics and Precession -- A Biography of the Magnetic Field of a Neutron Star -- Elementary Processes in Strong Magnetic Fields -- Drifting Subpulses in PSR B0826-34 -- Temperature Distribution in Magnetized Neutron Star Crusts -- Coupling of Radial and Non-Radial Oscillations of Neutron Stars -…
Foreword -- The Kaiserreich: Military power and science - 'Sturdy pillars of Germany's greatness' -- Einstein's path to Berlin -- World War I -- Upshot -- Einstein in private – not quite in private -- The Weimar Republic: Boycott of German science -- World renown -- Sponsorship – the Einstein Tower -- A target for right-wing propaganda and violence -- Emissary and emigré – Einstein's for…
Review Articles -- Physical Properties of Prestellar Cores -- Impulsively Triggered Star Formation -- Starless Cores -- Chemical Processes in Star Forming Regions -- Protostellar Jets: A High Angular Resolution Perspective -- Non-Isothermal Gravoturbulent Fragmentation -- The Birth of Massive Stars and Star Clusters -- Precursors of UchII Regions and the Evolution of Massive Outflows -- Observa…