The Particle Explosion

Close, Frank ; Martin, Michael

ISBN 10: 0198519656 / ISBN 13: 9780198519652

Published by Oxford University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1987

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The book is near fine with very slight edge wear in a very good+ dust jacket with wear at corners and spine ends.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Particle Explosion
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198519656
• ISBN 13: 9780198519652
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science & Technology

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Synopsis

This guide takes the reader on an illustrated journey into the sub-atomic world discovered by physicists over the past century. The authors describe the fundamental discoveries and the developments in equipment which have led to our current understanding of the nature of matter in the universe and the forces which govern its behaviour. Non-technical portraits of all major sub-atomic particles are given, from the electron, proton and neutron, through to quarks and muons.

About the Author

About the Authors Frank Close is Senior Principal Scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and is the author of Introduction to Quarks and Partons (1979). Michael Marten is the author of The New Astronomy (Oxford, 1984). Christine Sutton, a Research Associate in the Department of Nuclear Physics at Oxford University, is also the author of he Particle Connection (1984) and Building the Universe (1985).