Zeuthen Library

"Randall provides a comprehensive survey of the applications of vibration analysis to the condition monitoring of machines, reflecting the natural progression of these systems by presenting the fundamental material and then moving onto detection, diagnosis and prognosis"--

Special relativity -- A little group theory -- Fermi's golden rule & Feynman diagrams -- Particle collider experiment -- Quantum electrodynamics in e+e- collisions -- Quarks & gluons -- Quantum chromodynamics -- Parton evolution and jets -- Parity violation -- The mass scales of the weak force -- Consequences of weak interactions -- The Higgs boson -- Particle physics at the frontier

The role of radio observations in astronomy -- Emission and general properties of radio waves -- Spectral lines -- Radio wave propagation -- Radiometers -- Spectrometers and polarimeters -- Single-aperture radio telescopes -- The basics of interferometry -- Aperture synthesis -- Further interferometric techniques -- The Sun and the planets -- Stars and nebulae -- The Milky Way galaxy -- Pulsars -- Active galaxies -- The radio contributions to cosmology