Best Atomic & Nuclear Physics
In Magnitude, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time, temperature in our universe, from the tiniest particle within the structure of an atom to the most massive galaxy in the universe; from the speed at which grass grows (about 2 to 6 inches a month) to the speed of light. Kimberly Arcand is the visualization lead for NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, specializing in image and meaning research, and in data representation.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book is fun and factual, however, I had problems getting to the websites shown at the end of the book."
"Magnitude is a fun read, whether you are looking for just the right information to impress your friends with, or to liven an academic conversation."
"Let's see - can you take what usually is a dry science topic (unit conversions and scientific notation) and make it beautiful, even poetic?"
"On page 53, under the heading "Temperature", the formula listed for conversion is: Fahrenheit = (Celsius - 32) * 9/5. Probably a typo."
In 1920, Albert Einstein wrote to Max Born, Theoretical physics will flourish wherever you happen to be; there is no other Born to be found in Germany today.” The End of the Certain World presents for the first time Born’s full story: Nobel physicist, a discoverer of quantum theory, exile from Hitler’s Germany, teacher of nine Nobel physicists. German physicist Max Born (1882-1970) was Werner Heisenberg's mentor on the experiments in quantum mechanics that earned Heisenberg the 1932 Nobel Prize and enduring fame; one of the most valuable contributions of Greenspan's biography, the first ever of Born, is an analysis of the backstage considerations that excluded Born from sharing in that honor. This empathetic work, Greenspan's first solo effort, lifts a deserving figure out of semi-obscurity and adds a valuable perspective on the origin of modern physics. "...This empathetic work…lifts a deserving figure out of semi-obscurity and adds valuable perspective on the origin of modern physics..." (Publishers Weekly, USA, 7th February 2005). "Greenspan has written one of the most accomplished popular biographies of a modern scientist to be published in recent years” (Times Higher Educational Supplement, 29 th April 2005).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Since mine are opposed to his, I personally did not find his life to be much of an inspiration (with such quotes as "For the belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world")."
"The book is very thoroughly annotated. Einstein though probably understood and so will you if you read the book."
"Very nice and well described the history of humanist and a lesson for a period 1870-1940 that the World history of Nobel prizes will be never forgot."
"Nancy greenspan's biography of Max Born is carefully researched and beautifully written."
"Of course, the cast of physicists in this drama includes virtually every great name of the century - Bohr, Planck, Heisenberg, Dirac, Einstein, inter alia - and each of them emerges as a specific human being, some admirable, some hateful, in Greenspan's smooth, detailed narrative. Born's marriage and the fitful course thereof constitute a parallel 'novel' to his scientific career, and a precise counterpoint to the larger narrative of Jewish assimilation and European anti-Semitism. Of particular emotional interest was the story of Born's efforts to rescue Jewish scientists as well as his own extended family members from the certain fate that awaited them in Nazi Germany. During his years in England and Scotland, first as a refugee and later as a naturalized citizen, Born strayed occasionally over the edges of political activism but quickly withdrew to the sanity of science. Author Greenspan summarizes her undertanding of his position: ...with the "western system of profit and vested interests," squalor and poverty existed for the masses and luxury for the few. In Born's later years, in safer but no more economically secure straits, he became conscientiously concerned with the social/historical effects of his own and others' science, and devoted much of his time and prestige to formulating a scientific community commitment to resisting militaristic misuse of knowledge."
Best Particle Physics
The first chapter provides a detailed historical introduction to the subject, while subsequent chapters offer a quantitative presentation of the Standard Model. The first chapter provides a detailed historical introduction to the subject, while subsequent chapters offer a quantitative presentation of the Standard Model. - Revised edition of a well-established text on elementary particle physics. - With a number of worked examples and many end-of-chapter problems. - Helps the student to master the Feynman rules. - Solution manual available for instructors.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Displays the key equations showing their form but does not dwell on the math."
"Best starter book for field theory."
"I friggin love this book."
"Every physics student should read this book before they take the physics GRE, or even just for fun."
"If you've read and understood undergrad mechanics, e&m (Griffiths), and quantum mechanics (Griffiths), then you're ready for this book and you'll know what to expect from Griffiths."