A Universe of Atoms, An Atom in the Universe

• Main Author: Silverman, Mark P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.

Approximately 10 years have passed since the publication of And Yet 1 It Moves: Strange Systems and Subtle Questions in Physics. During this time, the book has done very well, being received favorably by both readers and reviewers. The exhaustion of the last printing has given me the opportunity to...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Fire Within
• The Wirbelrohr’s Roar
• Musical Bottles, Flying Balloons, and Hot Stoves: The Uncommon Physics of Common Things
• The Unimaginably Strange Behavior of Free Electrons
• Quantum Beats and Giant Atoms
• And Yet It Moves: Exotic Atoms and the Invariance of Charge
• Reflections on Light
• Two Worlds, Large and Small: Earth and Atom
• Computers, Coins, and Quanta: Unexpected Outcomes of Random Events
• A Universe of Atoms: Symmetry, Unity, Gravity, and the Problem of “Missing Mass”
• Science and Wonder.