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The International System of Units (SI), ninth edition, SI Brochure by
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Publisher: Bureau International des Poids et Mesures.
Cited passages: International Bureau of Weights and Measures, SI Brochure, ninth edition: section 2.2, printed pp. 123–125 (defining constants and alpha relation); section 2.3.1, printed p. 128 (ampere, epsilon0 and mu0); 26th CGPM Resolution 1, printed p. 194 (20 May 2019 effective date).
Online text: www.bipm.org/documents/d/guest/si-brochure-9-2_01
Additional inspected version: 4.01, June 2026; 2019 remains the original ninth-edition publication year. BIPM issues and hosts the brochure. Inspected locators: English §2.3.4, printed pp. 132–134, discussion and Table 4, notes (b), (c) and (g).
Official NIST SP 330 parallel SI text: www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-330/sp-330-section-2 . Section2.3.4 gives coherent derived-unit identities, states that the IEC var is identical to the volt ampere in coherent SI units, and emphasizes that a unit alone does not identify the physical quantity.
Publisher: Keysight Technologies.
Cited passages: Keysight Technologies, Open/Short Compensation and Z Port Extension, Overview and Open/Short Compensation: fixture open admittance and short impedance; compensation performed at the measurement terminals.
Publisher: Keysight Technologies.
Cited passages: Keysight Technologies, Materials Measurement: Dielectric Materials, Problem and Solution: parallel electrodes, guarded measurement, specimen flatness and fixture compensation; inspected HTML asset-page text; Materials Measurement: Dielectric Materials, Solution: air gaps, frequency limits of guarding and temperature control.
Classical Electromagnetism: An intermediate level course by Richard Fitzpatrick by
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Publisher: The University of Texas at Austin (host institution).
Publisher: ISOP project website.
Online text: proyecto.us.es/isopco2/2024/06/07/co2-viewing-cell/
Cited passages: CO2 viewing cell, 7 June 2024: paragraphs describing the isochoric cooldown, displayed temperature/pressure, and reflected/transmitted appearance.
The large deviation approach to statistical mechanics by Hugo Touchette by
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By Hugo Touchette.
Publication information: arxiv.org/abs/0804.0327
Published in Physics Reports.
Online text: arxiv.org/pdf/0804.0327
Cited passages: Hugo Touchette, The large deviation approach to statistical mechanics, §V.F, printed pp. 55–57: stable and tempered interactions and existence of the thermodynamic limit.
Quantum Theory of Superresolution for Two Incoherent Optical Point Sources by Mankei Tsang and others by
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Published in Physical Review X 6, 031033 (2016).
Online text: arxiv.org/abs/1511.00552
Cited passages: Tsang, Nair and Lu, Quantum Theory of Superresolution for Two Incoherent Optical Point Sources, abstract and published-version metadata: separation estimation beyond the Rayleigh convention.
Publisher: Nikon Instruments, MicroscopyU.
Online text: www.microscopyu.com/microscopy-basics/resolution
Publisher: Nikon Instruments, MicroscopyU.
Measurement of point-spread function (PSF) for confocal fluorescence microscopy by InCheon Song and others by
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Published in Advanced Characterization Techniques for Optics, Semiconductors, and Nanotechnologies II.
Publisher: SPIE, Bellingham, WA.
8.333 Statistical Mechanics I: Statistical Mechanics of Particles by
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Publisher: Cortland faculty website (institutional host).
Demonstration experiments with a Stirling engine by Christopher G Deacon and others by
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Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance by Sadi Carnot by
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Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Cited passages: Thermodynamics and Propulsion, §1.2.2, system boundaries and closed systems; §1.2.3, sufficient state properties; §§1.2.5–1.2.6, process paths and quasi-equilibrium descriptions.
Cited passages: Thermodynamics and Propulsion, §1.3.1, heat crosses boundaries and is not stored; §1.3.3, external pressure, frictionless quasistatic limit and Figures 1.10–1.11; §1.3.4, Figure 1.14, resistor versus combined resistor/water boundary.
Cited passages: Thermodynamics and Propulsion, §5.3, opening reversible dW = p dV and dQ = T dS substitutions; §5.3, relations between state properties and enthalpy definition.
The notes title page credits E. M. Greitzer, Z. S. Spakovszky and I. A. Waitz as authors, separately from a LaTeX editing credit. The 2008 date is the copyright/course year; no separate section publication date is established.
Giant Rydberg Excitons in Cuprous Oxide by Tomasz Kazimierczuk and others by
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Excitons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots by Matjaž Humar by
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By Matjaž Humar.
Seminar for Theory of Nanomaterials.
Cited passages: Humar, §3, printed p. 6: small-radius Frenkel contrast; Humar, §3, printed pp. 5–6, equations (13)–(26); Matjaž Humar, Excitons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots, §3, printed pp. 4–6: bound pairs, effective masses and localized contrast.
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