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The Great Design Robert K. Adair (Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Yale University)

The Great Design By Robert K. Adair (Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Yale University)

The Great Design by Robert K. Adair (Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Yale University)

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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.

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The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation by Robert K. Adair (Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Yale University)

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.

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' a straightforward, unfussy and well-ordered account of the core concepts of relativistic particle physics.' Nature ' Adair is a long-time outstanding researcher and teacher in the field of particle physics. He has digested many of the seemingly impossible-to-understand concepts for general readers, and has presented these concepts in the book...Excellent illustrations are used throughout. Highly recommended for all libraries.' Choice

About Robert K. Adair (Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Yale University)

Robert K. Adair is Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University. He is the author of Concepts in Physics and (with Earle C. Fowler) Strange Particles.

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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GOR003925032
9780195060690
0195060695
The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation by Robert K. Adair (Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Yale University)
Robert K. Adair (Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Yale University)
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Oxford University Press Inc
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