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We live in a world of numbers and mathematics, and so we need to
work with numbers and some math in almost everything we do, to
control our happiness and the direction of our lives. The purpose
of Coming Home to Math is to make adults with little technical
training more comfortable with math, in using it and enjoying it,
and to allay their fears of math, enable their numerical thinking,
and convince them that math is fun. A range of important math
concepts are presented and explained in simple terms, mostly by
using arithmetic, with frequent connections to the real world of
personal financial matters, health, gambling, and popular
culture.As such, Coming Home to Math is geared to making the
general, non-specialist, adult public more comfortable with math,
though not to formally train them for new careers or to teach those
first learning math. It may also be helpful to liberal arts college
students who need to tackle more technical subjects. The range of
topics covered may also appeal to scholars who are more math savvy,
though it may not challenge them.
We live in a world of numbers and mathematics, and so we need to
work with numbers and some math in almost everything we do, to
control our happiness and the direction of our lives. The purpose
of Coming Home to Math is to make adults with little technical
training more comfortable with math, in using it and enjoying it,
and to allay their fears of math, enable their numerical thinking,
and convince them that math is fun. A range of important math
concepts are presented and explained in simple terms, mostly by
using arithmetic, with frequent connections to the real world of
personal financial matters, health, gambling, and popular
culture.As such, Coming Home to Math is geared to making the
general, non-specialist, adult public more comfortable with math,
though not to formally train them for new careers or to teach those
first learning math. It may also be helpful to liberal arts college
students who need to tackle more technical subjects. The range of
topics covered may also appeal to scholars who are more math savvy,
though it may not challenge them.
This volume describes the increasing role of "in situ" optical
diagnostics in thin film processing for applications ranging from
fundamental science studies to process development to control
during manufacturing. The key advantage of optical diagnostics in
these applications is that they are usually noninvasive and
nonintrusive. Optical probes of the surface, film, wafer, and gas
above the wafer are described for many processes, including plasma
etching, MBE, MOCVD, and rapid thermal processing. For each optical
technique, the underlying principles are presented, modes of
experimental implementation are described, and applications of the
diagnostic in thin film processing are analyzed, with examples
drawn from microelectronics and optoelectronics. Special attention
is paid to real-time probing of the surface, to the noninvasive
measurement of temperature, and to the use of optical probes for
process control.
Optical Diagnostics for Thin Film Processing is unique. No other
volume explores the real-time application of optical techniques in
all modes of thin film processing. The text can be used by students
and those new to the topic as an introduction and review of the
subject. It also serves as a comprehensive resource for engineers,
technicians, researchers, and scientists already working in the
field.
Key Features
* The only volume that comprehensively explores "in situ,"
real-time, optical probes for all types of thin film
processing
* Useful as an introduction to the subject or as a resource
handbook
* Covers a wide range of thin film processes including plasma
etching, MBE, MOCVD, and rapid thermal processing
* Examples emphasize applications in microelectronics and
optoelectronics
* Introductory chapter serves as a guide to all optical diagnostics
and their applications
* Each chapter presents the underlying principles, experimental
implementation, and applications for a specific optical diagnostic
This book comprehensively addresses the physics and engineering
aspects of human physiology by using and building on first-year
college physics and mathematics. Topics include the mechanics of
the static body and the body in motion, the mechanical properties
of the body, muscles in the body, the energetics of body
metabolism, fluid flow in the cardiovascular and respiratory
systems, the acoustics of sound waves in speaking and hearing,
vision and the optics of the eye, the electrical properties of the
body, and the basic engineering principles of feedback and control
in regulating all aspects of function. The goal of this text is to
clearly explain the physics issues concerning the human body, in
part by developing and then using simple and subsequently more
refined models of the macrophysics of the human body. Many chapters
include a brief review of the underlying physics. There are
problems at the end of each chapter; solutions to selected problems
are also provided. This second edition enhances the treatments of
the physics of motion, sports, and diseases and disorders, and
integrates discussions of these topics as they appear throughout
the book. Also, it briefly addresses physical measurements of and
in the body, and offers a broader selection of problems, which, as
in the first edition, are geared to a range of student levels. This
text is geared to undergraduates interested in physics, medical
applications of physics, quantitative physiology, medicine, and
biomedical engineering.
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