Nonlinear Photonics

Suitable for both graduate and senior undergraduate students, this textbook offers a logical progression through the underlying principles and practical applications of nonlinear photonics. Building up from essential physics, general concepts, and fundamental mathematical formulations, it provides a robust introduction to nonlinear optical processes and phenomena, and their practical applications in real-world devices and systems. Over 45 worked problems illustrate key concepts and provide hands-on models for students, and over 160 end-of-chapter exercises supply students with plenty of scope to master the material. Accompanied by a complete solutions manual for instructors, including detailed explanations of each result, and drawing on the author's 35 years of teaching experience, this is the ideal introduction to nonlinear photonics for students in electrical engineering.

Solving Diophantine Equations by Factoring in Number Fields

In this text we provide an introduction to algebraic number theory and show its applications in solving certain difficult diophantine equations. We begin with a quick summary of the theory of quadratic residues, before diving into a select few areas of algebraic number theory. Our article is accompanied by a couple of worked problems and exercises for the reader to tackle on their own.

Proportional Reasoning Word Problem Performance for Middle School Students With High-Incidence Disabilities (HID)

Schema-based instruction (SBI) was used to teach nine middle school students with high-incidence disabilities (HID) to solve proportional reasoning word problems. A multiple-baseline-across-groups design was used to determine student understanding of the SBI process. The design consisted of three phases including baseline, SBI process, and maintenance. Training of the SBI process with worked problems occurred between baseline and SBI process. Students’ performance was measured using a five-category rubric, under two conditions: solving problems with and without calculator use. Results indicated that all groups improved problem-solving performance and maintained improvement 4 weeks after instruction. Implications for revising the rubric’s mastery criteria and future research are described.

Real-Time Reliable Simulation of Heat Transfer Phenomena

In this paper we discuss the application of the certified reduced basis method and the associated software package rbMIT© to “worked problems” in steady and unsteady conduction. Each worked problem is characterized by an input parameter vector — material properties, boundary conditions and sources, and geometry — and desired outputs — selected fluxes and temperatures. The methodology and associated rbMIT© software, as well as the educational worked problem framework, consists of two distinct stages: an Offline (or “Instructor”) stage in which a new heat transfer worked problem is first created; and an Online (or “Lecturer”/“Student”) stage in which the worked problem is subsequently invoked in (say) various in-class, project, or homework settings. In the very inexpensive Online stage, given an input parameter value, the software returns both (i) an accurate reduced basis output prediction, and (ii) a rigorous bound for the error in the reduced basis prediction relative to an underlying expensive high-fidelity finite element discretization; as required in the educational context, the response is both rapid and reliable. We present illustrative results for two worked problems: a steady thermal fin, and unsteady thermal analysis of a delamination crack.

Crowd Noise and Conformity

90 college men and women worked problems in the presence of crowd noise (CN), white noise (WN), or no noise (NN). CN produced more tendency to conform to answers chosen by others than NN among men ( p < .05) but not among women.