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An Analysis of the Curriculum and Textbook Policy in Chinese High Schools
This chapter focuses on an analysis of the curriculum and textbook policy in Chinese high school. In particular, the analysis of curriculum and...
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Saturable Absorbers for Solid-State Lasers
This chapter gives a comprehensive introduction to saturable absorbers, introducing macroscopic parameters such as modulation depth, nonsaturable...
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Identity Perspectives in Research on University Physics Education: What Is the Problem Represented to Be?
In recent years, research in higher education physics has paid increased attention to identity issues. In this critical review of the literature, we...
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Theoretical Basis of Computational Simulation
Solving the Hartree–Roothaan equation after strictly calculating all integrals without any simplification is called ab initio calculation.
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Phase Diagram of Fe–100% C Alloys. Part One. Basic Inconsistencies of Fe–Fe3C Alloy Phase Diagram
AbstractThe knowledge and control of phase transformations according to the Fe–Fe 3 C alloy phase diagram form the theoretical, process, and physical...
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Testing the foundation of quantum physics in space via Interferometric and non-interferometric experiments with mesoscopic nanoparticles
Quantum technologies are opening novel avenues for applied and fundamental science at an impressive pace. In this perspective article, we focus on...
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Physics of a Particle on a Rotating Hoop
The simple textbook problem of a particle on a vertical, rotating hoop is analysed both in theory and through experiments. We begin by detailing out...
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A terminological history of early elementary particle physics
By 1933, the class of generally accepted elementary particles comprised the electron, the photon, the proton as well as newcomers in the shape of the...
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Was physics ever deterministic? The historical basis of determinism and the image of classical physics
Determinism is generally regarded as one of the main characteristics of classical physics, that is, the physics of the eighteenth and nineteenth...
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Quantum computing with and for many-body physics
Quantum computing technologies are making steady progress. This has opened new opportunities for tackling problems whose complexity prevents their...
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The Theoretical Grounds of Geoecology as an Interdisciplinary Science Based on the Concept of Ecological Functions of the Earth’s Abiotic Spheres
AbstractSix scientifically-substantive paradoxes of the current state of geoecology are identified. New theoretical grounds of geoecology as an...
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Urban Soil Physics
Urban soils commonly have physical properties which reflect human activity in cities and which affect the functioning of urban soils and the...
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Yoichiro Nambu and the Collective Description of Many-particle Systems
In this chapter we retrace the salient steps of Nambu’s eclectic education as a physicist and his resolute quest for a rigorous non-perturbative...
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Relativistic fluid dynamics: physics for many different scales
The relativistic fluid is a highly successful model used to describe the dynamics of many-particle systems moving at high velocities and/or in strong...
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Traps for Rare Isotopes
Ion traps are widely used in fundamental and applied research. Over the past decade they have also gained significance as tools in experimental...
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Between Chemistry and Physics
All that was assumed, argued about and comprehended by the chemists of the nineteenth century has become settled as secondary school curriculum by...
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Theoretical Background of Thermal Transient Measurements
The measurement of physical quantities always needs a solid background in physics. For measuring the thermal parameters of a device under test (DUT),...
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The Higgs Boson and its physics: an overview
The Higgs boson plays a central role in the Standard Model, as well as in theories which go beyond it. This article is therefore divided into two...
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Introduction
This chapter gives a short introduction into the main topics of this second volume of the textbook on semiconductor optics. Included is a definition...
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Hundred years of geophysics (1834–1933)
Geophysics is relatively a new discipline in comparison to physics or geology. Contrary to general perception as an ancillary to geology, the...