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2010279232 contributor B11805931.
2010279232 created "c2007.".
2010279232 date "2007".
2010279232 date "c2007.".
2010279232 dateCopyrighted "c2007.".
2010279232 description "14. The elements -- 14.1. Quantum restrictions on angular momentum -- 14.2. Building up the elements -- 14.3. Compounds -- 15. Nuclear physics -- 15.1. The strong force -- 15.2. Atomic nuclei -- 15.3. Nuclear fusion -- 15.4. More about radioactivity -- 15.5. Nuclear fission -- 16. Elementary particles -- 16.1. What is an elementary particle? -- 16.2. The fundamental strong force -- 16.3. The weak force -- 16.4. The standard model -- 17. The sun and the solar system -- 17.1. The sun -- 17.2. The planets -- 18. The milky way -- 18.1. The stars -- 18.2. Stellar evolution -- 18.3. The galaxy -- 19. The universe -- 19.1. Expansion of the universe -- 19.2. The cosmic microwave background radiation -- 19.3. The big bang -- 19.4. Inflation -- 19.5. What is the universe made of? -- 20. Speculations -- 20.1. Supersymmetry -- 20.2. Superstrings.".
2010279232 description "8. Electricity and magnetism -- 8.1. Electricity -- 8.2. Magnetism -- 8.3. Electromagnetism -- 9. Wave motion -- 9.1. Sound waves -- 9.2. The Doppler effect for sound -- 9.3. Light waves -- 9.4. The Doppler effect for light -- 10. Relativity -- 10.1. Limitations of Newton's laws -- 10.2. New laws of motion -- 10.3. The twin paradox -- 10.4. Light as a limiting speed -- 10.5. The equivalence principle -- 10.6. Gravity as curved spacetime -- 10.7. Black holes -- 11. Atoms -- 11.1 Early ideas on atoms -- 11.2. Evidence for the existence of atoms -- 11.3. The composition of atoms -- 11.4. The atomic nucleus -- 12. Early days of quantum theory -- 12.1. Blackbody radiation -- 12.2. Photoelectric effect -- 12.3. Line spectra -- 12.4. Bohr model of the atom -- 13. Quantum mechanics -- 13.1. Particle waves -- 13.2. Nonrelativistic quantum mechanics -- 13.3. Heisenberg's uncertainty relations -- 13.4 Interference in quantum mechanics -- 13.5. Relativistic quantum mechanics -- 13.6. Spin and statistics -- 13.7. Entanglement --".
2010279232 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-302) and index.".
2010279232 description "Preface -- 1. Early ideas about the universe -- 1.1 The earth -- 1.2. The heavens -- 1.3. The views of Aristotle and Aristarchus -- 1.4. The Copernican revolution -- 2. The solar system and beyond -- 2.1. Elliptical orbits -- 2.2. Galileo's contributions -- 2.3. The stars -- 3. Newton's ideas about space and time -- 3.1. Infinite space -- 3.2. Infinite time -- 3.3. Scalars and vectors -- 3.4. Four-dimensional spacetime -- 3.5. Velocity and acceleration -- 4. Early ideas of motion -- 4.1. Zeno's paradoxes -- 4.2. Aristotle's views on motion -- 4.3. Galileo on motion -- 5. Newton's laws of motion -- 5.1. The first law -- 5.2. The second law -- 5.3. The third law -- 5.4. Frames of reference -- 6. Newton's theory of gravity -- 6.1. An apple and the moon -- 6.2. Action at a distance -- 6.3. Fields -- 7. Energy and momentum -- 7.1. Work -- 7.2. Energy -- 7.3. Conservation of energy -- 7.4. Momentum -- 7.5. Conservation of momentum -- 7.6. Angular momentum --".
2010279232 extent "xv, 311 p. :".
2010279232 identifier "9789812705617 (pbk.)".
2010279232 identifier "9789812706065".
2010279232 identifier "9812705619 (pbk.)".
2010279232 identifier "9812706062".
2010279232 issued "2007".
2010279232 issued "c2007.".
2010279232 language "eng".
2010279232 publisher "Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific,".
2010279232 subject "Cosmic physics.".
2010279232 subject "Cosmology.".
2010279232 subject "QC806 .L47 2007".
2010279232 tableOfContents "14. The elements -- 14.1. Quantum restrictions on angular momentum -- 14.2. Building up the elements -- 14.3. Compounds -- 15. Nuclear physics -- 15.1. The strong force -- 15.2. Atomic nuclei -- 15.3. Nuclear fusion -- 15.4. More about radioactivity -- 15.5. Nuclear fission -- 16. Elementary particles -- 16.1. What is an elementary particle? -- 16.2. The fundamental strong force -- 16.3. The weak force -- 16.4. The standard model -- 17. The sun and the solar system -- 17.1. The sun -- 17.2. The planets -- 18. The milky way -- 18.1. The stars -- 18.2. Stellar evolution -- 18.3. The galaxy -- 19. The universe -- 19.1. Expansion of the universe -- 19.2. The cosmic microwave background radiation -- 19.3. The big bang -- 19.4. Inflation -- 19.5. What is the universe made of? -- 20. Speculations -- 20.1. Supersymmetry -- 20.2. Superstrings.".
2010279232 tableOfContents "8. Electricity and magnetism -- 8.1. Electricity -- 8.2. Magnetism -- 8.3. Electromagnetism -- 9. Wave motion -- 9.1. Sound waves -- 9.2. The Doppler effect for sound -- 9.3. Light waves -- 9.4. The Doppler effect for light -- 10. Relativity -- 10.1. Limitations of Newton's laws -- 10.2. New laws of motion -- 10.3. The twin paradox -- 10.4. Light as a limiting speed -- 10.5. The equivalence principle -- 10.6. Gravity as curved spacetime -- 10.7. Black holes -- 11. Atoms -- 11.1 Early ideas on atoms -- 11.2. Evidence for the existence of atoms -- 11.3. The composition of atoms -- 11.4. The atomic nucleus -- 12. Early days of quantum theory -- 12.1. Blackbody radiation -- 12.2. Photoelectric effect -- 12.3. Line spectra -- 12.4. Bohr model of the atom -- 13. Quantum mechanics -- 13.1. Particle waves -- 13.2. Nonrelativistic quantum mechanics -- 13.3. Heisenberg's uncertainty relations -- 13.4 Interference in quantum mechanics -- 13.5. Relativistic quantum mechanics -- 13.6. Spin and statistics -- 13.7. Entanglement --".
2010279232 tableOfContents "Preface -- 1. Early ideas about the universe -- 1.1 The earth -- 1.2. The heavens -- 1.3. The views of Aristotle and Aristarchus -- 1.4. The Copernican revolution -- 2. The solar system and beyond -- 2.1. Elliptical orbits -- 2.2. Galileo's contributions -- 2.3. The stars -- 3. Newton's ideas about space and time -- 3.1. Infinite space -- 3.2. Infinite time -- 3.3. Scalars and vectors -- 3.4. Four-dimensional spacetime -- 3.5. Velocity and acceleration -- 4. Early ideas of motion -- 4.1. Zeno's paradoxes -- 4.2. Aristotle's views on motion -- 4.3. Galileo on motion -- 5. Newton's laws of motion -- 5.1. The first law -- 5.2. The second law -- 5.3. The third law -- 5.4. Frames of reference -- 6. Newton's theory of gravity -- 6.1. An apple and the moon -- 6.2. Action at a distance -- 6.3. Fields -- 7. Energy and momentum -- 7.1. Work -- 7.2. Energy -- 7.3. Conservation of energy -- 7.4. Momentum -- 7.5. Conservation of momentum -- 7.6. Angular momentum --".
2010279232 title "The universe and the atom / Don Lichtenberg.".
2010279232 type "text".