Elementary Particles And The Laws Of Physics

Author : Richard P. Feynman
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780201408256
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Easy Pieces written by Richard P. Feynman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1996-04-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was widely recognized as the most creative physicist of the post–World War II period. His career was extraordinarily expansive. From his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb a Los Alamos during World War II to his work in quantum electrodynamics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1965, Feynman was celebrated for his brilliant and irreverent approach to physics.It was Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. From 1961–1963, Feynman, at the California Institute of Technology, delivered a series of lectures that revolutionized the teaching of physics around the world. Six Easy Pieces, taken from the famous Lectures on Physics, represents the most accessible material from this series. In these six chapters, Feynman introduces the general reader to the following topics: atoms, basic physics, the relationship of physics to other topics, energy, gravitation, and quantum force. With his dazzling and inimitable wit, Feynman presents each discussion without equations or technical jargon.Readers will remember how—using ice water and rubber—Feynman demonstrated with stunning simplicity to a nationally televised audience the physics of the 1986 Challenger disaster. It is precisely this ability—the clear and direct illustration of complex theories—that made Richard Feynman one of the most distinguished educators in the world. Filled with wonderful examples and clever illustrations, Six Easy Pieces is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of physics by one of the most admired and accessible scientists of our time.

Author : Richard Phillips Feynman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521658621
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics written by Richard Phillips Feynman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-13 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and accessible book by Nobel laureates Richard Feynman and Steven Weinberg.

Author : Martinus J G Veltman
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813237074
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics written by Martinus J G Veltman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the universe works. We are introduced to the known particles of the world we live in. An elegant explanation of quantum mechanics and relativity paves the way for an understanding of the laws that govern particle physics. These laws are put into action in the world of accelerators, colliders and detectors found at institutions such as CERN and Fermilab that are in the forefront of technical innovation. Real world and theory meet using Feynman diagrams to solve the problems of infinities and deduce the need for the Higgs boson. Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics offers an incredible insight from an eyewitness and participant in some of the greatest discoveries in 20th century science. From Einstein's theory of relativity to the spectacular discovery of the Higgs particle, this book will fascinate and educate anyone interested in the world of quarks, leptons and gauge theories. This book also contains many thumbnail sketches of particle physics personalities, including contemporaries as seen through the eyes of the author. Illustrated with pictures, these candid sketches present rare, perceptive views of the characters that populate the field. The Chapter on Particle Theory, in a pre-publication, was termed "superbly lucid" by David Miller in Nature (Vol. 396, 17 Dec. 1998, p. 642). Contents: IntroductionPreliminariesThe Standard ModelQuantum Mechanics. MixingEnergy, Momentum and Mass-ShellDetectionAccelerators and Storage RingsThe CERN Neutrino ExperimentThe Particle ZooParticle TheoryFinding the HiggsQuantum ChromodynamicsEpilogueAddendum Readership: Students, lay people and anyone interested in the world of elementary particles. Keywords: Particle Physics;Quantum Mechanics;Relativity;Quarks;Leptons;Gauge Theories;Higgs ParticleReview: Reviews of the First Edition: "Veltman's life spans the history of particle physics, from Antiparticles to Z bosons. So does his crystal clear book, which tells all you want to know about the strange sub-nuclear world and the stranger scientists that study it ... a thrilling tale about the world's tiniest things." Sheldon Glashow Nobel laureate Boston University "I must congratulate you! The book you have written is truly a masterpiece. Not only have you explained the physics of the world of elementary particles to the young aspiring student, but you have made it available to the intelligent layman. On top of that you gave it the humanity it deserves; reading this book brought me back to the most exciting period of my life in which every day brought a new discovery and we all fought for recognition. I can truly say that there is no book like this." Melvin Schwartz Nobel laureate Columbia University "Veltman's ... transparent explanations of the abstract theories of quantum mechanics and special relativity, his lucid accounts of esoteric subjects in particle physics, such as scaling, Higgs particle and renormalizability ... are very impressive. The book will interest anyone who is interested in the view of the physical world held by contemporary fundamental physicists."T Y Cao Boston University "I greatly enjoyed finally reading a book that goes into the details I always wanted ... Veltman has the courage to try a deeper level about what we understand and what is simply fact ... Even if you have read books popularizing physics befor

Author : Richard Phillips Feynman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics written by Richard Phillips Feynman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309174163
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elementary-Particle Physics written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Physics in a New Era series of assessments of the various branches of the field, Elementary-Particle Physics reviews progress in the field over the past 10 years and recommends actions needed to address the key questions that remain unanswered. It explains in simple terms the present picture of how matter is constructed. As physicists have probed ever deeper into the structure of matter, they have begun to explore one of the most fundamental questions that one can ask about the universe: What gives matter its mass? A new international accelerator to be built at the European laboratory CERN will begin to explore some of the mechanisms proposed to give matter its heft. The committee recommends full U.S. participation in this project as well as various other experiments and studies to be carried out now and in the longer term.

Author : Harald Fritzsch
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812569367
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elementary Particles written by Harald Fritzsch and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly readable book uncovers the mysteries of the physics ofelementary particles for a broad audience. From the familiar notionsof atoms and molecules to the complex ideas of the grand unificationof all the basic forces, this book allows the interested lay public toappreciate the fascinating building blocks of matter that make up ouruniverse.

Author : H. Muirhead
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483280322
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes on Elementary Particle Physics written by H. Muirhead and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes of Elementary Particle Physics is a seven-chapter text that conveys the ideas on the state of elementary particle physics. This book emerged from an introductory course of 30 lectures on the subject given to first-year graduate students at the University of Liverpool. The opening chapter deals with pertinent terminologies in elementary particle physics. The succeeding three chapters cover the concepts of transition amplitudes, probabilities, relativistic wave equations and fields, and the interaction amplitude. The discussion then shifts to tests of electromagnetic interactions, particularly the tests of quantum electrodynamics and electromagnetic form factors. The final two chapters describe the invariance properties and problems in weak and strong interactions. This book is of value to graduate elementary particle physics teachers and students.

Author : Quang Ho-Kim
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662037122
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elementary Particles and Their Interactions written by Quang Ho-Kim and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of this two-part work is intended as an introduction to the fundamentals, while the second part discusses applications from the point of view of the researcher. Lively illustrations and informative tables, an overview at the beginning of each chapter and exercises with solutions make this book a valuable resource.

Author : Otto Nachtmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642612814
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elementary Particle Physics written by Otto Nachtmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book grew-how could it be otherwise?-out of a series oflectures which the author held at the University of Heidelberg. The purpose ofthese lectures was to give an introduction to the phenomenology of elementary particles for students both of theoretical and experimental orientation. With the present book the author has set himself the same aim. The reader is assumed to be familiar with ordinary nonrelativistic quantum mechanics as presented, e.g., in the following books: Quantum Mechanics, by L.1. Schiff (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1955); Quantum Mechanics, Vol. I, by K. Gottfried (W.A. Benjamin, Reading, Ma., 1966). The setup of the present book is as follows. In the first part we present some basic general principles and concepts which are used in elementary particle physics. The reader is supposed to learn here the "language" of particle physics. An introductory chapter deals with special relativity, of such funda mental importance for particle physics, which most ofthe time is high energy, i.e., highly relativistic physics. Further chapters of this first part deal with the Dirac equation, with the theory of quantized fields, and with the general definitions of the scattering and transition matrices and the cross-sections.

Author : Richard Phillips Feynman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139930024
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics written by Richard Phillips Feynman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: