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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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Nonlinear optics in graphene: theoretical background and recent advances
We present a comprehensive review of the optical response of graphene, in both the linear and nonlinear regime. This will serve as a reference for...
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Student Understanding of the Sign of Negative Definite Integrals in Mathematics and Physics
In a study of student understanding of negative definite integrals at two institutions, we administered a written survey and follow-up clinical...
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The deep space quantum link: prospective fundamental physics experiments using long-baseline quantum optics
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Deep Space Quantum Link mission concept enables a unique set of science experiments by...
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Autobiographical Notes of a Physicist
I describe aspects of my life in physics: the name I publish under, great physicists I have known, how I got into quantum foundations, what role I’ve...
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Quantum ontology without textbooks. Nor overlap**
In this paper, I critically assess two recent proposals for an interpretation-independent understanding of non-relativistic quantum mechanics: the...
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Rigid-Body Dynamics from the Euler Equations to the Attitude Control of Spacecraft in the Works of Scientists from Saint Petersburg State University. Part 1
AbstractThis review, which consists of several works, is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU) and is an...
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Physics in General
D’AlembertD’Alembert Jean Baptiste Le Rond counted as physics in general disciplines such optics, acoustics, positional astronomy, cosmology,...
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Physics and Politics During World War II
The first issue of Die Naturwissenschaften in 1939 appeared onJanuary 6th. On the front page was an advertisement for the book ‘The Structure of the...
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Euler Study of Newtonian and Cartesian Physics
When Euler was born, both mathematicians and astronomers had yet to fully explain the motion of moons, planets, and comets, all gravitating about the...
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The development of computational methods for Feynman diagrams
Over the last 70 years, Feynman diagrams have played an essential role in the development of many theoretical predictions derived from the standard...
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Physics of Elementary Particles
We have discussed in Chap. 5 that, according to the model of nuclear forces, proposed in 1935 by H....
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Introduction
Quantitative information on the penetration of swift ions through matter, in particular the systematics of energy loss, is of considerable interest...
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Optics Teaching by Professor N.A. Lyubimov at the Imperial University of Moscow in 1859–1882
AbstractThis articles gives an overview of teaching of optics in the Experimental Physics course at the Imperial University of Moscow in 1859–1882,...
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Tailoring Quantum Matter in the Second Quantum Revolution
Matter comes to us in many different forms, whose deep theoretical understanding and high experimental control is leading science into the so-called...
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Physics of thermalization and level density in an isolated system of strongly interacting particles
Here, we present a short review of ideas, methods and results for understanding the evolution of an excited mesoscopic system of strongly interacting...
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The Birth of Physics as an Academic Discipline
The chapter deals with the way mathematicians were successful in replacing canonical philosophers nearly completely in the study of natural...
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Exploring the Inclusion of Nature of Science in Turkish Middle School Science Textbooks
Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science (RFN) explains science as a cognitive, epistemic, and social institutional system....
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Touching Science; School Years
First contact with science on the Lorentzlyceum; connections of the namesake, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, with my (scientific) life. Notes on a textbook...
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Stem, Inquiry Practices and Technology in Physics Education
How to make Physics Education more challenging, relevant and attractive for our school students? How to stimulate the development of creative...