A Short Journey from Quarks to the Universe

This book takes the reader for a short journey over the structures of matter showing that their main properties can be obtained even at a quantitative level with a minimum background knowledge. The latter, besides some high school physics and mathematics, consists of the three cornerstones of scienc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Economou, Eleftherios N. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Colección:SpringerBriefs in Physics,
Temas:
Atoms.
Molecules.
Astrophysics.
Gravitation.
Electrodynamics.
Geotechnical engineering.
Atomic, Molecular and Chemical Physics.
Classical and Quantum Gravity.
Classical Electrodynamics.
Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The World according to Physics Levels of the structure of mater
  • PART 1: Three key-ideas and a short-cut
  • The atomic idea
  • The wave-particle duality
  • Equilibrium and minimization of total energy
  • Dimensional analysis: A short-cut to physics relations
  • PART 2: This World, this small World, the great
  • From quark and gluons to hadrons
  • From protons and neutrons to nuclei
  • From nuclei and electrons to atoms
  • From atoms to molecules
  • From atoms and molecules to solids and liquids
  • Planets
  • Stars, dead or alive
  • Cosmology
  • Revisiting photons.

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