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

• Pubblicazione: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 143 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
• Disciplina: 539.7
• Soggetto topico: Nuclear physics-Popular works; Nuclear physics-Research-History-Popular works; Nuclear astrophysics-Popular works
• Classificazione: LC QC778; 53.4.1
• Altri autori: Mackintosh, Rayauthor
• 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.
• ISBN: 0801868602
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 991001585059707536
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