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  title info:
    title: Basic Concepts in Physics
    sub title: From the Cosmos to Quarks
  name:
    name part: Chaichian, Masud.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Perez Rojas, Hugo.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Tureanu, Anca.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 377 p. 179 illus. online resource.
  abstract: "Basic Concepts in Physics: From the Cosmos to Quarks" is the outcome of the authors' long and varied teaching experience in different countries and for different audiences, and gives an accessible and eminently readable introduction to all the main ideas of modern physics. The book’s fresh approach, using a novel combination of historical and conceptual viewpoints, makes it ideal complementary reading to more standard textbooks. The first five chapters are devoted to classical physics, from planetary motion to special relativity, always keeping in mind its relevance to questions of contemporary interest. The next six chapters deal mainly with newer developments in physics, from quantum theory and general relativity to grand unified theories, and the book concludes by discussing the role of physics in living systems. A basic grounding in mathematics is required of the reader, but technicalities are avoided as far as possible; thus complex calculations are omitted so long as the essential ideas remain clear. The book is addressed to undergraduate and graduate students in physics and will also be appreciated by many professional physicists. It will likewise be of interest to students, researchers and teachers of other natural sciences, as well as to engineers, high-school teachers and the curious general reader, who will come to understand what physics is about and how it describes the different phenomena of Nature. Not only will readers of this book learn much about physics, they will also learn to love it. .
  table of contents: Gravitation and Newton Laws -- Entropy, Statistical Physics and Information -- Electromagnetism and Maxwell Equations -- Electromagnetic Waves -- The Special Theory of Relativity -- The Atom and Quantum Theory -- Quantum Electrodynamics -- Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein Statistics -- The Four Fundamental Forces -- General Relativity and Cosmology -- Unification of the Forces of Nature -- Physics and Life -- Index.
  note: by Masud Chaichian, Hugo Perez Rojas, Anca Tureanu.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Biochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Continuum physics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Classical Continuum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Biochemistry, general
  classification: QC19.2-20.85
  classification: 530.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
  identifier: 9783642195983
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19598-3
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    record change date: 20170228142604.0
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