Hidden unity in nature's laws /
"As physics has progressed through the ages it has succeeded in explaining more and more diverse phenomena with fewer and fewer underlying principles. This book explains how this understanding has developed by periodically uncovering unexpected "hidden unities" in nature. The author d...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Motion on earth and in the heavens
- Energy, heat and chance
- Electricity and magnetism
- Light
- Space and time
- Least action
- Gravitation and curved spacetime
- The quantum revolution
- Quantum theory with special relativity
- Order breaks symmetry
- Quarks and what holds them together
- Unifying weak forces with QED
- Gravitation plus Quantum theory, stars and black holes
- Particles, symmetries and the universe
- Queries.