Robert K Adair

The Great Design

Particles, Fields, and Creation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This introductory volume emphasises our understanding of the fundamental forces - gravitation, electromagnetism - and the fundamental particles on which they act and which go to build atoms and molecules. There are chapters on concepts; invariance and conservation laws; covariance scalars, vectors, tensors; the electromagnetic field; cosmology; and much more.

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Now, at long last, we have a comprehensive - and comprehensible - account of particles, fields, and cosmology, written by a working physicist who does not burden the reader with the weight of ponderous scientific notation. Performing the difficult task of predigesting complex concepts, Robert K. Adair gives non scientists access to what often appears to be an arcane discipline, and captures the joy of discovery which lies at the heart of research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780195060690
• ISBN-10: 0195060695
• Artikelnr.: 22036471

Autorenporträt

Robert K. Adair is Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University. He is the author of Concepts in Physics and (with Earle C. Fowler) Strange Particles.

Inhaltsangabe

Concepts of physics
Invariance and conservation laws
Covariance, scalars, vectors and tensors
The discrete in nature - the atoms of Demokritos
The continuum in nature - Faraday's fields
The nature of space and time - the special theory of relativity
The equivalence principle and the general theory of relativity
The electro-magnetic field - the first unified field theory
The problem of change - the second law of thermodynamics
Quantum mechanics - determinism to probablility
The atom - a quantum laboratory
Fundamental particles and forces - an introduction
Symmetries and conservation laws - CPT
The strong interactions
The weak interactions
Cosmology - the world's beginning and end
Gauge invariance - the unification of fields
To the ultimate theory - through a glass darkly.