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The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation

The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation

by RobertK.Adair (Author)

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    Paperback 1990

    $19.18
Synopsis

This introductory volume emphasises our understanding of the fundamental forces - gravitation, electromagnetism - and the fundamental particles on which they act and which go to build atoms and molecules. There are chapters on concepts; invariance and conservation laws; covariance scalars, vectors, tensors; the electromagnetic field; cosmology; and much more.

$19.18

Quantity

10 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 390
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 26 Jul 1990
ISBN 10: 0195060695
ISBN 13: 9780195060690

Media Reviews
' a straightforward, unfussy and well-ordered account of the core concepts of relativistic particle physics.' Nature ' Adair is a long-time outstanding researcher and teacher in the field of particle physics. He has digested many of the seemingly impossible-to-understand concepts for general readers, and has presented these concepts in the book...Excellent illustrations are used throughout. Highly recommended for all libraries.' Choice
Author Bio

Robert K. Adair is Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University. He is the author of Concepts in Physics and (with Earle C. Fowler) Strange Particles.