Institute Of Physics Publishing imprint: 98 books
Extreme-Temperature and Harsh-Environment Electronics
Physics, technology and applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Electronic devices and circuits are employed by a range of industries in testing conditions from extremes of high- or low-temperature, in chemically corrosive environments, subject to shock and vibration or exposure to radiation. This book describes the diverse measures necessary to make electronics...
by Dr Bleddyn Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Practical Radiobiology for Proton Therapy Planning covers the principles, advantages and potential pitfalls that occur in proton therapy, especially its radiobiological modelling applications. This book is intended to educate, inform and to stimulate further research questions. Additionally, it will...
by David K Ferry
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Modern electronics is being transformed as device size decreases to a size where the dimensions are significantly smaller than the constituent electron’s mean free path. In such systems the electron motion is strongly confined resulting in dramatic changes of behaviour compared to the bulk. This...
Discharge in Long Air Gaps
Modelling and applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Discharge in Long Air Gaps: Modelling and applications presents self-consistent predictive dynamic models of positive and negative discharges in long air gaps. Equivalent models are also derived to predict lightning parameters based on the similarities between long air gap discharges and lightning...
Entropy Beyond the Second Law
Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics for equilibrium, non-equilibrium, classical, and quantum systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Entropy Beyond the Second Law presents a coherent formulation of all aspects of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics with entropy as the unifying theme. This includes formulating equilibrium theory and explaining the role of the Second Law in establishing the equilibrium state. It also establishes...
by Badis Ydri
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Includes reader exercises and an appendix on Monte Carlo algorithms
Single and Multicomponent Digital Optical Signal Analysis
Estimation of phase and its derivatives
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Optical techniques such as electronic speckle pattern interferometry, holographic interferometry, and fringe projection have emerged as the prominent tools for non-contact measurements, with applications ranging from biology to materials science. In these processes, information about the measured...
by Dr Mihail Nedjalkov, David K Ferry
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This book is designed to give a background to the origins and development of Wigner functions, as well as its mathematical underpinnings. Along the way the authors emphasise the connections, and differences, from the more popular non-equilibrium Green’s function approaches. But, the key importance...
Gas-Phase Chemistry in Space
Harvard Global Health Catalyst summit lecture notes
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Gas-Phase Chemistry in Space: From elementary particles to complex organic molecules is written by a collection of experts in the field of astrochemistry. The book introduces essential concepts that govern the formation, excitation and destruction of molecules at postgraduate and research levels....
Evolutionary Dynamics
The mathematics of genes and traits
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Written for researchers and postgraduate students with a background in physics or applied mathematics and a desire to apply their skills to problems in the life sciences, this beautifully illustrated and stimulating book develops an understanding of the gene-to-trait problem in the context of evolutionary...
by Robert K Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In this text, Robert Tyson presents the fundamentals of Fourier optics with sufficient detail to educate the reader, typically an advanced student or working scientist or engineer, to the level of applying the knowledge to a specific set of design or analysis problems. Instead of presenting complex...
by Emily M Levesque
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Astrophysics of Red Supergiants is the first book of its kind devoted to our current knowledge of red supergiant stars, a key evolutionary phase that is critical to our larger understanding of massive stars. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental physical properties of red supergiants,...
by Ms Tracy Soanes, Dr Mary Costelloe, Dr Edwin Aird
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Design and Shielding of Radiotherapy Treatment Facilities provides readers with a single point of reference for all aspects of shielding design and radiation protection advice to the construction and modification of radiotherapy facilities. The book assembles a faculty of national and international...
Precise Dimensions
A history of units from 1791–2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Units are the foundation for all measurement of the natural world, and from which standard, our understanding develops. This book, stemming from a conference on the history of units organised by the editors, provides a comprehensive and discursive introduction to the history of units within physics,...