The great design : particles, fields, and creation

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The great design : particles, fields, and creation

Robert K. Adair

Oxford University Press, 1987

  • : pbk

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ISBN 9780195043808

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195060690

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.

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