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Women and Physics
This book begins with an examination of the numbers of women in physics in English-speaking countries, moving on to examine factors that affect girls and their decision to continue …
What's the Matter with Waves?
Like rocket science or brain surgery, quantum mechanics is pigeonholed as a daunting and inaccessible topic, which is best left to an elite or peculiar few. This classification was …
Visual Astronomy
Visual Astronomy introduces the basics of observational astronomy, a fundamentally limitless opportunity to learn about the universe with your unaided eyes or with tools such as …
Understanding the Magic of the Bicycle
The bicycle is a common, yet unique mechanical contraption in our world. In spite of this, the bike's physical and mechanical principles are understood by a select few. You do not …
Understanding Sonoluminescence
Sonoluminescence is the transformation of sound into light. To most who know how to do sonoluminescence, it's just a little glowing bubble levitating in a flask of water. But it …
Tying Light in Knots
Topology is the study of properties of geometrical objects that remain invariant as the object is bent, twisted, or otherwise continuously deformed. It has been an indispensable …
Truth and Traceability in Physics and Metrology
Metrological data is known to be blurred by the imperfections of the measuring process. In retrospect, for about two centuries regular or constant errors were no focal point of …
Transformations of Materials
Phase transformations are among the most intriguing and technologically useful phenomena in materials, particularly with regard to controlling microstructure. After a review of …
Topological Insulators
This book provides an introduction to topological matter with a focus on insulating bulk systems.A number of prerequisite concepts and tools are first laid out, including the …
The Universe Untangled
Space curves around you, time slows down, particles are waves, a cat is both alive and dead. What's going on? It all starts to make sense when we untangle the universe with this …
The Tao of Microelectronics
Microelectronics is a challenging course to many undergraduate students and is often described as very messy.