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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001585059707536

Titolo

Nucleus : a trip into the heart of matter / Ray Mackintosh ... [et al.] ; foreword by Ben Mottelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

ISBN

0801868602

Descrizione fisica

143 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Classificazione

LC QC778

53.4.1

Altri autori (Persone)

Mackintosh, Rayauthor

Disciplina

539.7

Soggetti

Nuclear physics-Popular works

Nuclear physics-Research-History-Popular works

Nuclear astrophysics-Popular works

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 132) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Ben Mottelson - Introduction: Our world and its infinite variety - 1. The size of things: From the immensity of space to the invisible world of the nucleus - 2. The discovery of nuclei: How a new world was revealed by radioactivity - 3. Particles or waves?: Strange laws at the heart of matter - 4. Measuring nuclei: Determining the shape and size of minute objects - 5. Strange nuclear material: The contents of a nucleus - 6. The nuclear landscape: The variety and abundance of nuclei - 7. Applications of nuclear physics: Interactions with everyday life - 8. Nuclear architecture: From hydrogen to neutron stars - 9. Cosmic furnaces: The stars and the birth of elements - 10. Our violent origin: Cosmology and the nuclear processes in the Big Bang.