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Author : Anton Z. Capri
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812709165
A collection of anecdotes about physics and the physicists who create new ideas.
Author : Capri Anton Z
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813101517
This enlightening book, a sequel to QUIPS, QUOTES, AND QUANTA, helps readers to understand how physicists think about and look at the world. Starting with the discovery and investigation of cosmic rays, the book proceeds to cover some major areas of modern physics in laymen's terms. Unlike other books that deal with the history of physics, this volume concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists who created the new ideas, with a heavy emphasis on personal incidents and quotes. At the same time it presents, in every day language, the ideas created by these physicists. Both thematic and biographical in nature, readers will be entertained with humorous events in the lives of some famous scientists. Readers will also learn quite a lot about modern physics without the mathematical details, but with the important concepts intact.
Author : Anton Z Capri
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813100664
When a ship's surgeon during a routine episode of bloodletting noticed that the sailors' blood was brighter in the tropics than in the north, he hypothesized that heat was a form of energy. When a young boy tried to visualize what a beam of light would look like by riding alongside it at the same speed, he began thinking along lines that eventually changed our views of space and time. When a student caught hay fever and went to recover on Heligoland, he started a major revolution in physics. These are but just some of the stories covered in this entertaining book that deals with the history of physics from the end of the 19th-century to about 1930. Quips, Quotes and Quanta (2nd Edition) is unique in that it contains anecdotes on physicists creating new ideas. Often the thinking of the creators of what is now called “modern physics” is revealed through quotes. Thematic and biographical in nature, this book also includes many personal incidents. This second edition has been revised to include new material: a prologue, epilogue, glossary and chronology, and photographs as well as additional quotes and anecdotes.
Author : Chris Impey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781324000945
The astonishing science of black holes and their role in understanding the history and future of our universe. Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, and yet they are ubiquitous. Every massive star leaves behind a black hole when it dies, and every galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole at its center. Frighteningly enigmatic, these dark giants continue to astound even the scientists who spend their careers studying them. Which came first, the galaxy or its central black hole? What happens if you travel into one—instant death or something weirder? And, perhaps most important, how can we ever know anything for sure about black holes when they destroy information by their very nature? In Einstein’s Monsters, distinguished astronomer Chris Impey takes readers on an exploration of these and other questions at the cutting edge of astrophysics, as well as the history of black holes’ role in theoretical physics—from confirming Einstein’s equations for general relativity to testing string theory. He blends this history with a poignant account of the phenomena scientists have witnessed while observing black holes: stars swarming like bees around the center of our galaxy; black holes performing gravitational waltzes with visible stars; the cymbal clash of two black holes colliding, releasing ripples in space-time. Clear, compelling, and profound, Einstein’s Monsters reveals how our comprehension of black holes is intrinsically linked to how we make sense of the universe and our place within it. From the small questions to the big ones—from the tiniest particles to the nature of space-time itself—black holes might be the key to a deeper understanding of the cosmos.
Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617036163
How American campus life shapes students, and how students shape campus lore
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015082440879
Author : Brian Shadwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Higher School Certificate Examination (N.S.W.)
ISBN : 0855835079
Author : Michael Reagan,Jim Denney
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781429989961
"There are cynics who say that a party platform is something that no one bothers to read and it doesn't very often amount to much. Whether it is different this time than it has ever been before, I believe the Republican Party has a platform that is a banner of bold, unmistakable colors, with no pastel shades." –Ronald Reagan, 1976 Republican National Convention When Ronald Reagan was called to the podium by President Ford during the 1976 Republican National Convention, he had no prepared remarks. But the unrehearsed speech he gave that night is still regarded as one of the most moving speeches of his political career. The reason he was able to give such a powerful speech on a moment's notice was that he was proclaiming the core principles of his heart and soul, which he had been teaching and preaching for years. The New Reagan Revolution reveals new insights into the life, thoughts, and actions of the man who changed the world during the 1980s. The challenges and threats we face today are eerily similar to the conditions in the world before the beginning of the Reagan era. The good news is that we already know what works. Ronald Reagan has given us the blueprint. This book is not merely a diagnosis of our nation's ills, but a prescription to heal our nation, rooted in the words and principles of Ronald Reagan. In these pages, you'll find a plan for returning America to its former greatness, soundness, and prosperity. It's the plan Ronald Reagan developed over years of study, observation, and reflection. It's a plan he announced to the nation, straight from his heart, one summer evening during America's 200th year. It's the plan he put into action during his eight years in office as the most effective president of the 20th century, and it is the plan we can use today to help return America to its former greatness, soundness, and prosperity.
Author : J. E. Baggott,Jim Baggott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199566846
Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. Its concepts underpin much of the twenty-first century technology that we now take for granted. But at the same time it has completely undermined our ability to make sense of the world at its most fundamental level. Niels Bohr claimed that anybody who is not shocked by the theory has not understood it. The American physicist Richard Feynman went further: he claimed that nobody understands it. The Quantum Story begins in 1900, tracing a century of game-changing science. Popular science writer Jim Baggott first shows how, over the space of three decades, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and others formulated and refined the theory--and opened the floodgates. Indeed, since then, a torrent of ideas has flowed from the world's leading physicists, as they explore and apply the theory's bizarre implications. To take us from the story's beginning to the present day, Baggott organizes his narrative around forty turning-point moments of discovery. Many of these are inextricably bound up with the characters involved--their rivalries and their collaborations, their arguments and, not least, their excitement as they sense that they are redefining what reality means. Through the mix of story and science, we experience their breathtaking leaps of theory and experiment, as they uncover such undreamed of and mind-boggling phenomenon as black holes, multiple universes, quantum entanglement, the Higgs boson, and much more. Brisk, clear, and compelling, The Quantum Story is science writing at its best. A compelling look at the one-hundred-year history of quantum theory, it illuminates the idea as it reveals how generations of physicists have grappled with this monster ever since.
Author : Arnulf Quadt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540710608
This will be a required acquisition text for academic libraries. More than ten years after its discovery, still relatively little is known about the top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle. This extensive survey summarizes and reviews top-quark physics based on the precision measurements at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, as well as examining in detail the sensitivity of these experiments to new physics. Finally, the author provides an overview of top quark physics at the Large Hadron Collider.
Author : Banesh Hoffmann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1959-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486205182
This timeless exploration of the work of the great physicists of the early 20th century employs analogies, examples, and imaginative insights rather than computations to explain the dramatic impact of quantum physics on classical theory. Topics include Pauli's exclusion principle, Schroedinger's wave equation, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and many other concepts. 1959 edition.
Author : Melih M. Gordesli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543031528
Still today, it is hard for most of us to comprehend the paradoxical character of quantum theory. Its complex nature can nevertheless be broken down into the most important aspects and explained in an intelligible way. This book offers an easily understandable overview of its development and fundamental features and illustrates the origins of quantum theory as we know it today through the contributions of distinguished physicists and scientists over several centuries.
Author : R. Michael Barnett,Henry Muehry,Helen R. Quinn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387215341
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 : Aneesh V. Manohar,Mark B. Wise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521642418
Understanding the physics of heavy quarks gives physicists the unique opportunity to test the predictions of Quantum Chromodynamics and the Standard Model. Heavy Quark Physics provides an exciting introduction to this new area of high energy physics. Two leading experts in the field review the standard model, the basics of heavy quark spin-flavor symmetry, and detail how it can be applied to the classification of states, decays and fragmentation. The heavy quark effective theory is developed, including the radiative and 1/mQ corrections, and applied to the study of hadron masses, form factors, and inclusive decay rates. The authors also discuss the application of chiral perturbation theory to heavy hadrons. To aid the reader, many of the key calculations are performed step by step, and problems are provided at the end of each chapter. This lucid volume provides graduate students with an ideal introduction to the physics of heavy quarks, and more experienced researchers with an authoritative reference to the subject.
Author : Victor Guillemin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Quantum theory
ISBN : UCAL:B5012919