Andrew Watson

The Quantum Quark

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fascinating and inspiring book: the story of one of the four forces controlling our universe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 773g
• ISBN-13: 9780521089838
• ISBN-10: 0521089832
• Artikelnr.: 25467286

Autorenporträt

The author has worked in governmental, educational, scholarly, and general trade book publishing for four decades. He has published everything from small booklets to boxed sets and been responsible for print runs ranging from two to two million copies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Symmetry
3. The quantum world
4. Towards QCD
5. The one number of QCD
6. The gregarious gluon
7. Quarks and hadrons
8. Quarks under the microscope
9. Much ado about nothing
10. Checkerboard QCD
Appendix 1. A QCD chronology
Appendix 2. Greek alphabet and SI prefixes
Appendix 3. Glossary
Appendix 4. Further reading
Index.