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978-1-4020-4629-2
Sprites, Elves and Intense Lightning Discharges

Particularly intense lightning discharges can produce transient luminous events above thunderclouds, termed sprites, elves ...

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978-3-540-72634-0
The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon

It seems to be a strange enterprise to attempt write a physics book about a single number. It was not my idea to do so, but ...

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978-3-540-27905-1
The Physics of Thin Film Optical Spectra

The book is intended to bridge the gap between fundamental physics courses (such as optics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics ...

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978-3-540-27056-0
The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars

This collection of papers -- starting with a brilliant article by one of the masters of the field -- gives an excellent current ...

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978-1-4020-5235-4
The Structure of Physics

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker‘s "Aufbau der Physik", first published in 1985, was intended as an overview of his lifelong ...

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978-0-387-75252-5
Theoretical Kaleidoscope

The book is based on lectures given by the author over many years. The main source of problems addressed in the book are ...

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978-3-540-45270-6
Theory of Light Hydrogenic Bound States

The book describes the modern theory of light hydrogen-like systems, and the discussion is based on quantum electrodynamics. ...

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978-3-540-68768-9
Time Domain Methods in Electrodynamics

This book consists of contributions given in honor of Wolfgang J.R. Hoefer. The contributions represent the state of the ...

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978-1-4020-8868-1
Turbulence, Dynamos, Accretion Disks, Pulsars and Collective Plasma Processes : First Kodai-Trieste Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics Held at the Kodaikanal Observatory Kodaikanal, India, August 27 – September 7, 2007

It is well established and appreciated by now that more than 99% of the baryonic matter in the universe is in the plasma ...

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978-3-540-79572-8
Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers : Introduction to Physical Principles, Experimental Results, Technological Challenges

In the introduction accelerator-based light sources are considered and a comparison is made between free-electron lasers ...

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978-3-540-68477-0
Uniformly Accelerating Charged Particles : A Threat to the Equivalence Principle

There has been a long debate about whether uniformly accelerated charges should radiate electromagnetic energy and how one ...

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