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The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation
Robert K. Adair
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Description for The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation
paperback. This introductory volume emphasises our understanding of the fundamental forces - gravitation, electromagnetism - and the fundamental particles on which they act and which go to build atoms and molecules. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: PHP. Dimension: 233 x 155. Weight in Grams: 603. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
This introductory volume emphasises our understanding of the fundamental forces - gravitation, electromagnetism - and the fundamental particles on which they act and which go to build atoms and molecules. There are chapters on concepts; invariance and conservation laws; covariance scalars, vectors, tensors; the electromagnetic field; cosmology; and much more.
This introductory volume emphasises our understanding of the fundamental forces - gravitation, electromagnetism - and the fundamental particles on which they act and which go to build atoms and molecules. There are chapters on concepts; invariance and conservation laws; covariance scalars, vectors, tensors; the electromagnetic field; cosmology; and much more.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195060690
SKU
KSG0037397
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Robert K. Adair
Robert K. Adair is Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University. He is the author of Concepts in Physics and (with Earle C. Fowler) Strange Particles.
Reviews for The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation
' a straightforward, unfussy and well-ordered account of the core concepts of relativistic particle physics.' Nature ' Adair is a long-time outstanding researcher and teacher in the field of particle physics. He has digested many of the seemingly impossible-to-understand concepts for general readers, and has presented these concepts in the book...Excellent illustrations are used throughout. Highly recommended for ... Read more