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| View Larger Image | Quarks and Gluons: A Century of Particle Charges | Paperbackby M. Y. Han (Author)
| List Price: | $17.00 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | World Scientific Pub Co Inc | | Page Count: | 250 Pages | | Publication Date: | June 01, 1999 | | Sales Rank: | 80,435th |
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Product Description
The major development in atomic, nuclear particle and quark physics are presented in this text. It provides a brief history of particles, charting the discovery of electrons and photons, antimatter, atomic nuclei, strong and weak forces, and quarks and gluons. In particular, it traces the concept of "conversed charges", a phenomena that is consistently manifested in each of the developments in modern physics. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 6 reviews)
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Looking forward to reading other books by this author by J. Loveland (UT USA)  5 Stars
October 10, 2008
This book was so fascinating that I could not take a break from reading it. I look forward to reading Dr. Han's books The Secret Life of Quanta and The Probably Universe.
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A book well worth reading by BRIAN MACRORY (Ireland) 5 Stars
July 07, 2008
Quarks and Gluons: A Century of Particle Charges
In the past atoms were the building blocks of matter. Then we realized that atoms were composed of protons, neutrons and an outer shell of electrons. This realization gave us a comprehensive understanding of the workings of nature.
Then we delved even deeper into things, and tiny though protons and neutrons are, we managed to work out that they were composed of even tinier entities called quarks held together my bosons called gluons. It is indeed a compliment to human ingenuity that we were able to do this and derive a model for it called the Standard Model.
The collection of particles and forces that make up this Model are described in an excellent, easy to read manner, in this book. But even though it is a very readable book, it deals with the themes of quarks and gluons, in a quite comprehensive way. The use of graphs and mathematics is non existent i.e. the presentation is mainly textual, but in spite of that, a good understanding of what is happening at the most fundamental level in nature can be obtained by reading this book.
This reviewer highly recommends it.
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excellent primer by armando lopez 5 Stars
May 31, 2008
Owning several books on quantum physics I found this to be the most clearly written on the subject. All the terms are explained in a succint manner devoid of all verbiage. Very focused writing and I highly recommend it.
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A wonderfully accessible introduction to particle physics by Joel Austin (Brooklyn, NY USA) 5 Stars
September 24, 2000
Moo Young Han, a professor at Duke, must be a great teacher, and this book gives everyone the chance to share in the excitement and wonder of particle physics. Han can make all those esoteric terms like quark, meson, lepton, and neutrino meaningful and interesting, which is no small feat. I finally understand how all the particles relate to each other and the larger universe, and enjoyed reading the book in the process.
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an excellent view of how particle physics works 5 Stars
September 16, 1999
i have just finished reading Quarks and Gluons and thought it was terrific: clean, clear, focussed,tightly organized, at a perfect general reader level with a neat colloquial bite to the style, very informative for me with a lot of ahahs-that's -why- they- do- that- , clearly a labor of love by a major contributor in particle physics.
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