A Tour Of The Subatomic Zoo

Author : Cindy Schwarz
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1681744201
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo written by Cindy Schwarz and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo is a brief and ambitious expedition into the remarkably simple ingredients of all the wonders of nature. Tour guide, Professor Cindy Schwarz clearly explains the language and substance of elementary particle physics for the 99% of us who are not physicists. With hardly a mathematical formula, views of matter from the atom to the quark are discussed in a form that an interested person with no physics background can easily understand. It is a look not only into some of the most profound insights of our time, but a look at the answers we are still searching for. College and university courses can be developed around this book and it can be used alone or in conjunction with other material. Even college physics majors would enjoy reading this book as an introduction to particle physics. High-school, and even middle-school, teachers could also use this book to introduce this material to their students. It will also be beneficial for high-school teachers who have not been formally exposed to high-energy physics, have forgotten what they once knew, or are no longer up to date with recent developments.

Author : C Schwarz
Publisher : Myprint
ISBN 13 : 9781681747453
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo written by C Schwarz and published by Myprint. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cindy Schwarz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781563966170
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo written by Cindy Schwarz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular book introduces the ideas, terminology, and techniques of high-energy physics. Insights into the structure of matter from the atom down to the quark are made accessible to readers who have no physics background. "With hardly a mathematical formula, Ms. Schwarz clearly explains the language and much of the substance of elementary particle physics." -FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY STANLEY GLASHOW, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, NOBEL LAUREATE

Author : Cindy Schwarz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Subatomic Zoo written by Cindy Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of many years of teaching a course at Vassar College on subatomic physics for non-science majors. As a final exercise in the course, the students were required to write a short story or poem with subatomic particles as the main characters. I have collected the very best of them in this book. By the time you read the whole book you should be familiar with common particle world events like annihilation, pair production and decay, but a glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading are included just in case.This book is light reading; meant to entertain!For science lovers, science teachers, physics teachers and particle physics people.

Author : Gavin Hesketh
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784298697
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Particle Zoo written by Gavin Hesketh and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is everything really made of? If we split matter down into smaller and infinitesimally smaller pieces, where do we arrive? At the Particle Zoo - the extraordinary subatomic world of antimatter, ghostly neutrinos, strange-flavoured quarks and time-travelling electrons, gravitons and glueballs, mindboggling eleven-dimensional strings and the elusive Higgs boson itself. Be guided around this strangest of zoos by Gavin Hesketh, experimental particle physicist at humanity''s greatest experiment, the Large Hadron Collider. Concisely and with a rare clarity, he demystifies how we are uncovering the inner workings of the universe and heading towards the next scientific revolution. Why are atoms so small? How did the Higgs boson save the universe? And is there a Theory of Everything? The Particle Zoo answers these and many other profound questions, and explains the big ideas of Quantum Physics, String Theory, The Big Bang and Dark Matter... and, ultimately, what we know about the true, fundamental nature of reality.

Author : Ursula K. Heise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521555449
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronoschisms written by Ursula K. Heise and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the way postmodern novels respond to changes in the experience of time.

Author : Rebecca Rupp
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
ISBN 13 : 0609801090
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook written by Rebecca Rupp and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 1998 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists all the resources needed to create a balanced curriculum for homeschooling--from preschool to high school level.

Author : Kendall Haven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313078688
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Most Popular Scientists for Young Adults written by Kendall Haven and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-05-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the career histories of successful 20th century scientists, this exciting resource offers students fascinating reads, a wonderful research tool, and tips to launching a science career. They'll learn about Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who discovered the Titanic; Annie Wauneka, who eradicated TB among the Navajo; and Chien-Shiung Wu, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan project. They will also find information about many Nobel Prize winners and such familiar personalities as Sally Ride, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Cousteau, Dian Fossey, and Margaret Mead. Physical, earth, and life sciences are represented, with a focus on contemporary North Americans. Descriptions of each scientist's most important contributions and biographical sketches are accompanied by words of advice to today's students who wish to establish a science career. Photos of some of the scientists illustrate the text, and lists for further reading are included.

Author : Jonathon Keats
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199752904
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual Words written by Jonathon Keats and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that accompany and describe them. How else would words like qubit (a unit of quantum information), crowdsourcing (outsourcing to the masses), or in vitro meat (chicken and beef grown in an industrial vat) enter our language? In Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology, Jonathon Keats, author of Wired Magazine's monthly Jargon Watch column, investigates the interplay between words and ideas in our fast-paced tech-driven use-it-or-lose-it society. In 28 illuminating short essays, Keats examines how such words get coined, what relationship they have to their subject matter, and why some, like blog, succeed while others, like flog, fail. Divided into broad categories--such as commentary, promotion, and slang, in addition to scientific and technological neologisms--chapters each consider one exemplary word, its definition, origin, context, and significance. Examples range from microbiome (the collective genome of all microbes hosted by the human body) and unparticle (a form of matter lacking definite mass) to gene foundry (a laboratory where artificial life forms are assembled) and singularity (a hypothetical future moment when technology transforms the whole universe into a sentient supercomputer). Together these words provide not only a survey of technological invention and its consequences, but also a fascinating glimpse of novel language as it comes into being. No one knows this emerging lexical terrain better than Jonathon Keats. In writing that is as inventive and engaging as the language it describes, Virtual Words offers endless delights for word-lovers, technophiles, and anyone intrigued by the essential human obsession with naming.

Author : R. Michael Barnett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387215344
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Charm of Strange Quarks written by R. Michael Barnett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.