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Atoms and photons and quanta, oh my! : ask the physicist about atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics /
This is the second book in the 'Ask the Physicist' series. The first book, From Newton to Einstein: Ask the physicist about mechanics and relativity, provides an excellent foundation for this book that covers topics in 'modern' physics. The main emphasis of this volume is providi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA):
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
[2015]
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| Colección: | IOP (Series). Release 2.
IOP concise physics. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Let there be light!
- Introduction
- History
- What are force fields?
- Electric and magnetic fields
- Maxwell's equations
- Quanta and photons, oh my!
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Black-body radiation
- The photoelectric effect
- Compton scattering
- de Broglie's hypothesis
- What's waving?
- The Heisenberg uncertainty principle
- Atoms, oh my!
- Atomic sizes and masses
- Atomic spectra
- The discovery of the electron
- Ernest Rutherford and the 'nuclear model'
- The Bohr model of the hydrogen atom
- The modern atomic model
- Nuclear physics
- Introduction
- Discovery of the neutron
- The nuclear force (the strong interaction)
- Nuclear masses and binding energies
- Nuclear systematics
- Radioactivity
- Nuclear fission
- Nuclear fusion
- The standard model
- Epilogue
- Ask the psychic
- Off the wall hall of fame
- Appendices.
- A. The constants of electricity and magnetism
- B. Energy
- C. Elastic collisions
- D. Commonly used units
- E. The Schrödinger equation
- F. The Bohr model of hydrogen
- G. Detecting spin
- H. Chronology
- I. Miscellaneous calculations and computations.