Building Blocks of Matter (MacMillan Science Library)

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Название:Building Blocks of Matter (MacMillan Science Library)

Автор: John S. Rigden

Издательство: Macmillan Reference USA

ISBN: 0028657039

Дата издания:2003-05-16

Страниц: 576

Язык:Английский

Формат:PDF

Размер:10.90 MB

Twentieth-century and twenty-first-century elementary particle physics is full of quarks, leptons, antimatter, and dark energy. How is a reader supposed to understand physics when much of what he or she may, or may not, remember from high-school physics is no longer current? This alphabetically arranged guide is intended for a broad audience, including advanced high-school and college students as well as general readers. An international team of physicists contributed 153 entries, each with a bibliography of recommended books, journals, and Web sites. See also references appear at the end of each article. Also included are a reader's guide presenting a topical arrangement of entries, a time line, a glossary, and a list of common abbreviations and acronyms. Case studies of experiments such as the measurement of the muon, profiles of important laboratories such as Fermilab, and biographies of physicists such as Paul Dirac are among the entries, which are illustrated with tables, photograph, and schematics.