Pulsed Systems: Design Principles -- Lumped Parameter Pulse Systems -- Pulse Generation Using Long Lines -- Physics of Pulsed Electrical Discharges -- The Vacuum Discharge -- The Pulsed Discharge in Gas -- Electrical Discharges in Liquids -- Properties of Coaxial Lines -- Solid-Insulated Coaxial Lines -- Liquid-Insulated Lines -- Vacuum Lines with Magnetic Self-Insulation -- Spark Gap Switches …
Prologue: A journey to Rome -- The musician's son -- A gifted young Tuscan -- To Rome and the Jesuits -- A Surveyor of Inferno -- The spheres from the tower -- From Pisa to Padua -- Signs in the sky -- De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium -- Lecturer and designer -- A professor's commitments -- Modern physics is born -- A new star in an unchanging sky?- Drawing close to a court -- The balls fall…
Basic Tensor Algebra -- Tensor Spaces -- to Tensors -- Homogeneous Tensors -- Change-of-basis in Tensor Spaces -- Homogeneous Tensor Algebra: Tensor Homomorphisms -- Special Tensors -- Symmetric Homogeneous Tensors: Tensor Algebras -- Anti-symmetric Homogeneous Tensors, Tensor and Inner Product Algebras -- Pseudotensors; Modular, Relative or Weighted Tensors -- Exterior Algebras -- Exterior Alg…
Stability of dynamical systems, bifurcations, and generic properties -- Discrete invariants of dynamical systems -- Entropy and topological aspects of dynamical systems -- Entropy and metric aspects of dynamical systems -- Entropy and measure theoretic aspects of dynamical systems -- Smooth dynamical systems -- Cellular automata and Boolean networks as examples of discrete dynamical systems.Our…
New Forms of Nanocarbon. Theory and Observation -- Carbon Family at the Nanoscale -- Structural and Electronic Properties of Isolated Nanodiamonds: A Theoretical Perspective -- From Nanodiamond to Nanowires -- Quantum Chemical Studies of Growth Mechanisms of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond -- Nanodiamonds in the Cosmos -- Diamond Molecules Found in Petroleum -- Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Films -…
Why Symmetry? -- J-Pairing Interractions of Fermions in a Single-J Shell -- Supersymmetry in Nuclei -- The Relativistic Many Body Problem in Quantum Mechanics -- Gauge Invariance and the E1 Sum Rule in Nuclei -- The Heisenberg Group in Classical and Quantum Information Transmission -- Quantum Field Theory of Particle Mixing and Oscillations -- Two-Photon Interactions in Cavity QED -- Low-Dimens…
The Philosopher Scientist -- The Concept of Nature -- Physical Understanding -- The Scientist Philosopher -- The Block Universe -- Causation and Determinism -- Conclusion.How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators’, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? The Scientist as Philosopher explores the interaction between physics and philosophy. Clearly w…
Averaging, Detrending, and Filtering of Eddy Covariance Time Series -- Coordinate Systems and Flux Bias Error -- Uncertainty in Eddy Covariance Flux Estimates Resulting from Spectral Attenuation -- Low Frequency Atmospheric Transport and Surface Flux Measurements -- Measurements of Trace Gas Fluxes in the Atmosphere Using Eddy Covariance: WPL Corrections Revisited -- Concerning the Measurement …
Introduction: Matching analysis. Importance for circuit design. State of the art. Research objectives. Outline of this book -- Measurement and Modeling of Mismatch. Measurement setup. Experimental setup. Modeling of mismatch in the drain current. Width and length dependence. Example: Yield of a current-steering D/A converter. Conclusions -- Parameter Extraction. Extraction methods. Experimental…
The 2003 International Conference "Hydrogen Materials Science and Chemistry of Carbon Nanomaterials" was held in September 2003. In the tradition of the earlier ICHMS conferences, this meeting served as an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of the most recent research on transition to hydrogen-based energy systems, technologies for hydrogen production, storage, utilizat…