101 quantum questions : what you need to know about the world you can't see / / Kenneth W. Ford
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| Autore: |
Ford Kenneth William <1926->
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| Titolo: |
101 quantum questions : what you need to know about the world you can't see / / Kenneth W. Ford
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass. : , : Harvard University Press, , 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 530.12 ‡2 22 |
| Soggetto topico: | Quantum theory |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The subatomic world -- Digging deeper -- The small and the swift -- Quantum lumps and quantum jumps -- Atoms and nuclei -- And more about nuclei -- Particles -- And more particles -- Interactions -- Constancy during change -- Waves and particles -- Waves and probability -- Quantum physics and technology -- Quantum physics at every scale -- Frontiers and puzzles. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This reader-friendly, richly illustrated book provides an engaging overview of quantum physics, from "big ideas" like probability and uncertainty and conservation laws to the behavior of quarks and photons and neutrinos, and on to explanations of how a laser works and why black holes evaporate. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | 101 quantum questions |
| ISBN: | 0-674-06093-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911095342203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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