John C. Taylor

Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A wide-ranging and illuminating account of how our understanding of the world has developed by uncovering 'hidden unities' in nature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 967g
• ISBN-13: 9780521650649
• ISBN-10: 052165064X
• Artikelnr.: 22465645

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Motion on earth and in the heavens
2. Energy, heat, and chance
3. Electricity and magnetism
4. Light
5. Space and time
6. Least action
7. Gravitation and curved spacetime
8. The quantum revolution
9. Quantum theory with special relativity
10. Order breaks symmetry
11. Quarks and what hold them together
12. Unifying weak forces with QED
13. Gravitation plus quantum theory - stars and black holes
14. Particles, symmetries and the universe
15. Queries
16. Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography.