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Invitation to contemporary physics

Q. Ho-Kim, N. Kumar, C.S. Lam

World Scientific, c1991

  • : pbk.

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Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9789810207236

内容説明

In recent years, the exhilarating sense of discovery in the realm of physics has almost become the exclusive right of the specialist in the field. Books on contemporary physics tend to be oversimplified or too technical for the general reader to gain a proper appreciation of the appeal that this scientific quest holds for the modern-day physicist.Invitation To Contemporary Physics, however, offers a unique opportunity for the layman or new student to share in the fascination and excitement of seven of the most enthralling areas at the research frontiers of modern day physics: lasers, superconductivity, symmetries, chaos, the evolution of stars, elementary particles and cosmology.Organized into independent chapters, the book allows the reader to delve into each topic separately. Each chapter is also designed to commence at an elementary level, thus requiring little prior background knowledge from the reader. It is then developed in stages of increasing difficulty, but in such a way that any keen and determined reader will be able to comprehend. Emphasis is placed on understanding the basic principles behind the facts and ideas.The excitement and fascination in the intellectual pursuit of present-day physics is far too compelling to be left solely to the experts. The authors in this Invitation To Contemporary Physics have therefore answered the challenge of bringing it all home to the general reader. This book serves as a captivating introduction to modern-day physics for the layman, and is also an ideal reference text for a university course aiming at a general survey of contemporary physics.

目次

  • Part 1 Lasers and physics: applications of lasers
  • quantum optics. Part 2 Superconductivity: zero electrical resistance
  • infinite magnetic reluctance
  • some macroscopic quantum effects. Part 3 Symmetry of nature and nature of symmetry: space-time, reflection, and gauge symmetries
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking. Part 5 Chaos - chance out of necessity: fractal and strange attractors. Part 6 Bright stars and black holes: the birth of stars
  • the final states of stars. Part 7 The innermost secrets of the universe: quantum numbers, conservation laws and symmetry
  • gauge theories. Part 8 Cosmology: the Big Bang
  • the fate of the universe
  • inflationary universe
  • cosmology and particle physics.
巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9789810207243

内容説明

In recent years, the exhilarating sense of discovery in the realm of physics has almost become the exclusive right of the specialist in the field. Books on contemporary physics tend to be oversimplified or too technical for the general reader to gain a proper appreciation of the appeal that this scientific quest holds for the modern-day physicist.Invitation To Contemporary Physics, however, offers a unique opportunity for the layman or new student to share in the fascination and excitement of seven of the most enthralling areas at the research frontiers of modern day physics: lasers, superconductivity, symmetries, chaos, the evolution of stars, elementary particles and cosmology.Organized into independent chapters, the book allows the reader to delve into each topic separately. Each chapter is also designed to commence at an elementary level, thus requiring little prior background knowledge from the reader. It is then developed in stages of increasing difficulty, but in such a way that any keen and determined reader will be able to comprehend. Emphasis is placed on understanding the basic principles behind the facts and ideas.The excitement and fascination in the intellectual pursuit of present-day physics is far too compelling to be left solely to the experts. The authors in this Invitation To Contemporary Physics have therefore answered the challenge of bringing it all home to the general reader. This book serves as a captivating introduction to modern-day physics for the layman, and is also an ideal reference text for a university course aiming at a general survey of contemporary physics.

目次

  • Part 1 Lasers and physics: applications of lasers
  • quantum optics. Part 2 Superconductivity: zero electrical resistance
  • infinite magnetic reluctance
  • some macroscopic quantum effects. Part 3 Symmetry of nature and nature of symmetry: space-time, reflection, and gauge symmetries
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking. Part 5 Chaos - chance out of necessity: fractal and strange attractors. Part 6 Bright stars and black holes: the birth of stars
  • the final states of stars. Part 7 The innermost secrets of the universe: quantum numbers, conservation laws and symmetry
  • gauge theories. Part 8 Cosmology: the Big Bang
  • the fate of the universe
  • inflationary universe
  • cosmology and particle physics. Part contents.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA13387304
  • ISBN
    • 9810207239
    • 9810207247
  • LCCN
    91026392
  • 出版国コード
    si
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Singapore ; Teaneck, N.J.
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiii, 518 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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