Àâòîðèçàöèÿ
Ïîèñê ïî óêàçàòåëÿì
Adair R.K. — The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation
Îáñóäèòå êíèãó íà íàó÷íîì ôîðóìå
Íàøëè îïå÷àòêó? Âûäåëèòå åå ìûøêîé è íàæìèòå Ctrl+Enter
Íàçâàíèå: The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation
Àâòîð: Adair R.K.
Àííîòàöèÿ: Although modern physics surrounds us, and newspapers constantly refer to its concepts, most nonscientists find the subject extremely intimidating. Complicated mathematics or gross oversimplifications written by laypersons obscure most attempts to explain physics to general readers.
Now, at long last, we have a comprehensive — and comprehensible — account of particles, fields, and cosmology, written by a working physicist who does not burden the reader with the weight of ponderous scientific notation. Exploring how physicists think about problems, Robert K. Adair considers the assumptions they make in order to simplify impossibly complex relationships between objects, how they determine on what scale to treat the problem, how they make measurements, and the interplay between theory and experiment.
Adair gently guides the reader through the ideas of particles, fields, relativity, and quantum mechanics. He explains the great discoveries of this century — which have caused a revolution in how we view the universe — in simple, logical terms, comprehensible with a knowledge of high school algebra. Performing the difficult task of predigesting complex concepts, Adair gives nonscientists access to what often appears to be an arcane discipline, and captures the joy of discovery which lies at the heart of research.
ßçûê:
Ðóáðèêà: Ôèçèêà /
Ñåðèÿ: Ñäåëàíî â õîëëå
Ñòàòóñ ïðåäìåòíîãî óêàçàòåëÿ: Ãîòîâ óêàçàòåëü ñ íîìåðàìè ñòðàíèö
ed2k: ed2k stats
Ãîä èçäàíèÿ: 1987
Êîëè÷åñòâî ñòðàíèö: 376
Äîáàâëåíà â êàòàëîã: 09.12.2009
Îïåðàöèè: Ïîëîæèòü íà ïîëêó |
Ñêîïèðîâàòü ññûëêó äëÿ ôîðóìà | Ñêîïèðîâàòü ID
Ïðåäìåòíûé óêàçàòåëü
Magnetic monopoles 63 134 211 243—245 247n
Magnetism 62—63
Magnitudes of physical quantities 10
Mariotte, Edme 41
Mass, definition of 16—17
Mass-energy relation, special relativity 94 110
Mathematics, relation to physics 5
Matter particles 211 227
Matter, continuous or particulate 38
Maxwell, James 44 128 133
Maxwell’s equations 132—133 139n
Mermin, N.D. 183
Mesons 214 248
Michelson — Morley experiment 77—78 85 100
Michelson, Albert 6 67 77
Microwave radiation from the early universe 320—321 361 362
Mills, Robert 331
Missing mass of the universe 318
Molecules 43
Momentum in special relativity 95 102
monopole see “Magnetic monopoles”
Morley, Edward 67 77
Mosely, H.G.J. 249
Multiplets, baryon 261—264
Multiplets, baryon, meson 259—261
Multiplets, baryon, nucleon 252—253
Neutral Weak Currents 304—305 338
Neutrino 215
Neutrino, density in the universe 318
Neutrino, helicity 284—287
Neutrino, interactions 300—304
Neutrino, masses 300
Neutrino, scattering 300—304
Neutron 150 166 194 248 249—254
Newton, Isaac 8 15 39 149 353
Ne’mann, Yuval 258
Noether, Amalie Emmy 26 364
Novae, supernovae 280 320 324 366
Nuclear atom see “Atoms”
Nuclei 47
Nucleons 47
Oerstad, Hans Christian 128
Olbers, H.W.M. 309
Ostwald, Wilhelm 38 45
Pais, Abraham 66n
Parity 320 234—236 243
Particles 49 150
Particles, aspect of waves 173—176
Particles, fundamental 208—229
Partons 267—269
Penzias, Arno A. 321
Perrin, Jean 46
Phase change 147—148
Phase change in the early universe 358—359 368n
Photino 350
Photoelectric effect, equation 175
Photon 173—176 180—182 183 318 321 341 347 358
Photon to nucleon ratio 321
Physics as a metaphor 12
Physics as a metaphor, definition 3
Physics as a metaphor, experimental 6 8
Physics as a metaphor, extensive 12—13
Physics as a metaphor, goals 12—13
Physics as a metaphor, intensive 12—13
Physics as a metaphor, theoretical 6 8
Pions 214 248 294—295
Planck mass 218 346
Planck, Max 149 150
Planck’s constant 154 157 158 162 196 247fn
Plato 103
Podolski, Boris 183
Poincare symmetries 26 351
Poincare, Henri 86
Polarization of the vacuum 224
Polkinghorne, J.C. 365
Ponderamotive equation 133
Positivism 3
Potential see “Field potential”
Powell, C.F. 256
Precession of the orbit of Mercury 123—124
Probability in quantum mechanics 159—161 169—171
Probability in quantum mechanics, in thermodynamics 145—147
production in early universe 349 358 361
Projectile theory of light 80
Proper-time 91 101
Proton 150 166 194 212 248 249—254
Proton, ifetime 348—349
Prout, William 41
QCD see “Quantum chromodynamics”
qed see “Quantum electrodynamics”
Quanta 206n
Quantum chromodynamics 55 341 344
Quantum electrodynamics 211 341
quantum mechanics 149—191
Quantum numbers 206n
Quarks 47 55 194 212 214 215 256—259 269—271 272—276 341 347 358
R, ratio or hadron to muon production in collisions 270—271
Random walk 46
Range of forces 221—222
Reality in quantum mechanics 164—165 183—189
Reality in quantum mechanics of electric field 60
Reality in quantum mechanics, in physics 12
Red shift 311
Reflection of waves 165—166
Relativity, general see “General Theory of Relativity”
Relativity, special see “Special Theory of Relativity”
Renormalization, charge and mass 224—227
Renormalization, charge and mass, electroweak field 337—338
Rest mass 97
Rochester, G.D. 256
Rosen, Nathan 183
Rubia, Carlo 215 338
Rutherford model of the atom 194—196
Rutherford, Ernest 48n 194—196 249 267—268 278n 280
Salam, Abdus 209 325 332
scalar 31—35 37n 50
Scalar, fields 50 326
Scalar, potential 64
Scalar, waves 151
Schroedinger, Erwin 149
Schwinger, Julian 227
Scientific method 5
Second law of thermodynamics 145—147 241 310
Selection rules in SU(3) 278n
Selectron 350
Shells in atoms 203—204
Source particle see “Matter particles”
Space, the nature of 67—68
Space-like intervals 92
Space-time, geometry of 90—93
Special theory of relativity 6 32 67—102 149
Special Theory of Relativity, Lorentz transformation 88
Special Theory of Relativity, space contraction 85
Special Theory of Relativity, time dilatation 85
Spectrum of states in quantum mechanics 168
Spectrum of states in quantum mechanics, of atoms 202—204
Spectrum of states in quantum mechanics, of charmonium 271—274
Spin 176—180
Spinors 178—180
Spinoza, Benedict de 365
Spontaneous symmetry breaking 335—337
Standard model 345—350
standing waves 165—167
Stationary states 165—171
Statistics in quantum mechanics see “Probability”
Statistics of particles 180—183
Strangeness see “Hypercharge”
Strong interactions 50 209 212—214 232 248—279
Strong interactions, under C, P, and T 243
SU(2) 249 254 257 306n 333 347 independence”)
SU(3) 256—264 265—266 291 342 347
SU(5) 346—349
SU(6) 267
Subquarks 350
Supergravity 351—352
Superstrings 353—356
Supersymmetry 8 350—352
Swift, Jonathan 350
Symmetry 16
Symmetry, breaking, and the Anthropic Principle 367—368
Symmetry, mirror 230
Symmetry, spontaneous loss of symmetry and phase change 147—148
Tachyons 93
Tau-lepton 215 358
Temperature 43 48n
Temperature of the universe 318—321
Tensor 31—35 37n 50
Tensor in General Relativity 124—125 127n
Tensor, waves 151
Theology and Physics 365—369
Thomson, G.P. 155
Three body problem 29n
Three degree, radiation see “Microwave radiation”
Time as fourth dimension 90—93
Time as fourth dimension, connection with space curvature 313—318
Time as fourth dimension, dictation 115—116
Time as fourth dimension, diffraction, in quantum mechanics 155—158
Time as fourth dimension, distortion in a gravitational field 113—115
Time as fourth dimension, reversal 241—242
Time as fourth dimension, the nature of 67—69
Time as fourth dimension, travel 93
Time-like intervals 92
Time’s Arrow 140
Tomanoga, Sin-itiro 227
Top quark see “Flavor”
Toynbee, Arnold 5
Transformation 88—90 227
Transformation equations 35
Transitions, atomic 203
Twin paradox 115—119
U(l) 331 347
UFI see “Universal Fermi Interaction”
Uncertainty principle 161—164 168 201 281 306n
Unified Field see “Field unified” “Grand
Universal Fermi interaction 288—290 290—294
Universe 14 27 367
Universe, expansion 310—313
Universe, inflation 359—363
Universe, invariances 27 37
Universe, isotropy 28
Universe, missing mass 318—321
Universe, very early times 356—365
Up quark see “Flavor”
Ussher, James 308
V-particles 256
Vacuum, mass density 359—360
Vacuum, mass density, polarization of quark fields 276
Vacuum, mass density, structure 223—224
van der Meer, Simon 215 338
Vector 31—35 37n 50
Vector, boson 216 288—289
Vector, fields 326
Vector, potential 63—64 328—329 342n
Virtual, particles 222
Viscosity (of gases) 44
Vitalism 147
Vortex theory (of particles) 66
W particle 215 289 296—300 366 338 344
Ward, John 332
Wave-particle dichotomy 150
Waves, de Broglie see “de Broglie waves”
Waves, electromagnetic see “Electromagnetic field waves”
Waves, intensity of 150—151
Waves, matter see “de Broglie waves”
Waves, properties of particles 149—158
Weak charge see “Charge”
Weak interaction 50 209 215—216 232 243 280—307 329
Weak interaction and charm 298—299
Weak interaction, neutral currents 296—300
Weinberg, Steven 209 319 325 332
Wigner, Eugene 5 249
Wilson, Robert W. 321
World map 315
World picture 315
Wu, C.S. 232 282
X-rays 176 249
Yang — Mills field 332 337
Yang, C.N. 232 331
Young, Thomas 150
Yukawa, Hideki 256
Z particle 215 289 296—300 336 338 353
Zero-point energy 168
Zweig, George 248 258
’t Hooft, Gerhard 338
Ðåêëàìà