The Wizard of Quarks
Author | : Robert Gilmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2000-11-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781461300946 |
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Author | : Robert Gilmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2000-11-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781461300946 |
Author | : Robert Gilmore |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461300932 |
Thousands of readers who were delighted by the adventures and science content of Alice in Quantumland are in for another treat. This time physicist Robert Gilmore takes us on a journey with Dorothy, following the yellow building block road through the land of the Wizard of Quarks. Using characters and situations based on the Wizard of Oz story, we learn along the way about the fascinating world of particle physics. Classes of particles, from quarks to leptons are shown in an atomic garden, where atoms and molecules are produced. See how Dorothy, The Tin Geek, and the Cowardly Lion experience the bizarre world of subatomic particles.
Author | : Robert Gilmore |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1995-07-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780387914954 |
In this cleverly conceived book, physicist Robert Gilmore makes accessible some complex concepts in quantum mechanics by sending Alice to Quantumland-a whole new Wonderland, smaller than an atom, where each attraction demonstrates a different aspect of quantum theory. Alice unusual encounters, enhanced by illustrations by Gilmore himself, make the Uncertainty Principle, wave functions, the Pauli Principle, and other elusive concepts easier to grasp.
Author | : K. C. Cole |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2012-07-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0544080149 |
This clearly written and compelling look at physics and physicists offers “thousands of new ways to see our daily world more richly” (Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach). For many of us, physics has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. K. C. Cole, an award-winning science writer, specializes in making its wonders accessible to the everyday reader. This book uses lively prose, metaphors, and anecdotes to allow us to comprehend the nuances of physics: gravity and light, color and shape, quarks and quasars, particles and stars, force and strength. It also shows us how the physical world is so deeply intertwined with the ways we think about culture, poetry, and philosophy, and explores the workings of such legendary scientific minds as Richard Feynman, Victor Weisskopf, brothers Frank Oppenheimer and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Philip Morrison, Vera Kistiakowsky, and Stephen Jay Gould. “An exemplary science writer . . . For readers without scientific background, Cole gracefully introduces relativity, quantum theory, optics, astrophysics, and other significant disciplines, never getting bogged down in unnecessary explanation. Thus, you may not learn all about thermodynamics from reading her chapter on it, but you will learn enough to think seriously about the entropy in your own life. Cole sprinkles her text with comments from famous scientists—‘Space is blue, and birds fly in it,’ said Heisenberg, and Faraday said, ‘Nothing is too wonderful to be true’—that are not only delightful in themselves but perfectly suited to her own text. No review of Cole’s book could be too wonderful to be true.” —Booklist
Author | : Yoichiro Nambu |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1985-05-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9814338028 |
The book explains in a precise and complete manner how elementary particle physics has evolved over the past 50 years. The historical development of the ideas that have shaped our thinking about the ultimate constituents of matter is traced out. The author has been associated with some of the originators of elementary particle theory and has made significant contributions to the field. Here, he gives a first-person description of some of the main developments leading to our present view of the universe.
Author | : Don Lincoln |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9814374466 |
This book explains the fascinating world of quarks and leptons and the forces that govern their behavior. Told from an experimental physicist's perspective, it forgoes mathematical complexity, using instead particularly accessible figures and apt analogies. In addition to the story of quarks and leptons, which are regarded as well-accepted fact, the author (who is a leading researcher at one of the world's highest energy particle physics laboratories) also discusses mysteries at both the experimental and theoretical frontiers, before tying it all together with the exciting field of cosmology and indeed the birth of the universe itself.
Author | : Y. Nambu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Particles (Nuclear physics) |
ISBN | : 9789971966652 |
Author | : R. Michael Barnett |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0387215344 |
A primer on the evolution of particle physics and the search for the fundamental building blocks of matter, this book presents the full current body of understanding of particle physics in a way that is accessible to readers with some basic principles of physics. This concise book tells the fascinating story of how 20th century physicists revealed layer upon layer of structure within the atom to reach the basic particles of matter, and culminates in descriptions of current theories which form the Standard Model and the discovery of the top quark. It contains many illustrations and photographs, including the famous "Particle Chart", and integrates the stories of the individual scientists throughout. The book is a collaboration among eminent physicists at LBL, CERN and high school teachers to develop a novel book for teaching particle physics to students. It can thus be used as a supplement for courses in advanced high school and physics courses.
Author | : Kenn Amdahl |
Publisher | : Clearwater Publishing Company, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780962781599 |
An off-beat introduction to how electricity works in practical applications.
Author | : Jonathan Allday |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2018-01-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 135109307X |
Quarks, Leptons and The Big Bang is a clear, readable and self-contained introduction to particle physics and related areas of cosmology. It bridges the gap between non-technical popular accounts and textbooks for advanced students. The book concentrates on presenting the subject from the modern perspective of quarks, leptons and the forces between them. This book will be of interest to students, teachers and general science readers interested in fundamental ideas of modern physics.