The discovery of subatomic particles. [A World of Particles; The Discovery of the Electron; The Atomic Scale; The Nucleus; More Particles ; Appendices; Work and Kinetic Energy; G Millikans OilDrop Experiment ; Potential Energy in the Atom ; K Momentum Conservation and Particle Collisions]
Weinberg, Steven, 1933- [Howard Boyer, Andrew Kudlacik, Neil Patterson, Gerard Piel, Aidan Kelly, Paul Bamberg, Bernard Cohen, Peter Galison, Gerald Holton, Arthur Miller, Brian Pippard; photos, Harold Edgerton, ]
Language: English
Published by New York : Scientific American Library, 1983, 1983
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- The discovery of subatomic particles. [A World of Particles; The Discovery of the Electron; The Atomic Scale; The Nucleus; More Particles ; Appendices; Work and Kinetic Energy; G Millikans OilDrop Experiment ; Potential Energy in the Atom ; K Momentum Conservation and Particle Collisions]
- Author
- Weinberg, Steven, 1933- [Howard Boyer, Andrew Kudlacik, Neil Patterson, Gerard Piel, Aidan Kelly, Paul Bamberg, Bernard Cohen, Peter Galison, Gerald Holton, Arthur Miller, Brian Pippard; photos, Harold Edgerton, ]
- Publisher
- New York : Scientific American Library, 1983
- Publication year
- 1983
- Condition
- Fine
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0716714884
- ISBN 13
- 9780716714880
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- Catalog 78 - Sciences
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Review
'One cannot fail to be touched by it.' New Scientist
'It is a happy fact that some of the greatest scientists have been skilled expositors of their subject for nonscientific audiences. Einstein, Eddington, and Feynman come to mind. Steven Weinberg, a Nobel Laureate and brilliantly contemporary theorist, belongs in this company ... It is ideally suited to inspire a next generation of physicists.' American Journal of Physics
'A beautiful example of a new approach with which the nonscientist can attain literacy in physics.' Physics Today
'Weinberg takes the reader through a brief history of electric forces from Coulomb to Faraday, enabling him to calculate the deflection from first principles. This is a remarkably painless and successful way to teach the basic ideas of physics ... The book, with its splendid photographs ... is authentically Weinberg - very much reminiscent of his earlier brilliant exposition The First Three Minutes.' The Times
'It succeeds not only in presenting many of the important results of modern and classical physics but also in giving a flavor of how physics was done in the19th and 20th centuries.' Science
'A gem ... what it provides is a lively, personal and authoritative account of the way scientists found out about matter ... it is a very good read, combining lively informal syntheses of basic physics with solid quantitative science ...'. Astronomy & Geophysics
'This excellent book can be warmly recommended to the general reader.' Contemporary Physics
'I have been an admirer of this book since its first edition 20 years ago, and have recommended it on many courses for the general public, where people might be making their first encounter not only with particle physics but with physics itself ... I'm pleased the book is back in print and shall certainly continue to recommend it.' CERN Courier
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