From Quanta To Quarks: More Anecdotal History Of Physics
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
9812709169
ISBN-13
9789812709165
Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Country of Manufacture
SG
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 4th, 2007
Print length
168 Pages
Weight
434 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.70 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
History of sciencePopular sciencePhysics
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Helps readers to understand how physicists think about and look at the world. This book concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists who created the new ideas, with an emphasis on personal incidents and quotes. It enables readers to learn about modern physics without the mathematical details.
This enlightening book, a sequel to QUIPS, QUOTES, AND QUANTA, helps readers to understand how physicists think about and look at the world. Starting with the discovery and investigation of cosmic rays, the book proceeds to cover some major areas of modern physics in laymen''s terms. Unlike other books that deal with the history of physics, this volume concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists who created the new ideas, with a heavy emphasis on personal incidents and quotes. At the same time it presents, in every day language, the ideas created by these physicists. Both thematic and biographical in nature, readers will be entertained with humorous events in the lives of some famous scientists. Readers will also learn quite a lot about modern physics without the mathematical details, but with the important concepts intact.
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