Essays on Particles and Fields
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Published: 1990
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Essays on Particles and Fields
Author: Ranjan Roy Daniel
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis tribute to M.G.K. Menon, presently a member of the Indian Planning Commission, includes contributions from some of his many friends, admirers, and colleagues. For over three decades, Menon has been an major influence on Indian science as a physicist, administrator, and policy maker, and this collection reflects the outstanding tradition of Indian science with which he is so closely identified.
Elementary Particles and the Universe
Author: Murray Gell-Mann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-10-25
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0521412536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a collection of research articles especially written by eminent scientists to celebrate the 60th birthday, in September 1989, of the Nobel Laureate and inventor of 'quarks', Professor Murray Gell-Mann. The main body of contributions are concerned with theoretical particle physics and its applications to cosmology.
Standard Theory Of Particle Physics, The: Essays To Celebrate Cern's 60th Anniversary
Author: Luciano Maiani
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9814733520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The editors make a good point in claiming the time has come to upgrade the Standard Model into the ‘Standard Theory’ of particle physics, and I think this book deserves a place in the bookshelves of a broad community, from the scientists and engineers who contributed to the progress of high-energy physics to younger physicists, eager to learn and enjoy the corresponding inside stories.'Carlos LourençoCERN CourierThe book gives a quite complete and up-to-date picture of the Standard Theory with an historical perspective, with a collection of articles written by some of the protagonists of present particle physics. The theoretical developments are described together with the most up-to-date experimental tests, including the discovery of the Higgs Boson and the measurement of its mass as well as the most precise measurements of the top mass, giving the reader a complete description of our present understanding of particle physics.
Frontier Physics: Essays In Honor Of Jayme Tiomno
Author: Salmeron R A
Publisher: #N/A
Published: 1991-10-16
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9814556386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book collects 30 articles on elementary particle theory, quantum field theory, general relativity and cosmology contributed by well known experts in honour of Prof. Jayme Tiomno's 70th Birthday. The contents of this volume reflect the wide-ranging scientific interests of one of the most respected physicists of our time.
The Wave Function
Author: Alyssa Ney
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-04-08
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0190240725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a new volume of original essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics. The essays address questions such as: What fundamental metaphysics is best motivated by quantum mechanics? What is the ontological status of the wave function? Does quantum mechanics support the existence of any other fundamental entities, e.g. particles? What is the nature of the fundamental space (or space-time manifold) of quantum mechanics? What is the relationship between the fundamental ontology of quantum mechanics and ordinary, macroscopic objects like tables, chairs, and persons? This collection includes a comprehensive introduction with a history of quantum mechanics and the debate over its metaphysical interpretation focusing especially on the main realist alternatives.
Waves and Particles
Author: Roger G. Newton
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9814449687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn part 2, the history of the idea of atoms is reviewed, and then the scientific evidence for their existence, with Rutherford's discovery of the atomic nucleus. The investigation of what the nucleus is like follows, including the discovery of the neutron, followed by that of the neutrino - of which there are several different kinds - and the muon as well as the pion. The important work of Paul Dirac is described, as well as the discovery of the positron and other antiparticles. The ways by which particles are discovered, by cloud chambers, bubble chambers, etc. are all explained, followed by the invention of the various machines to accelerate particles to high speeds: the cyclotron, the synchrotron, and the bigger and bigger machines, in the US as well as in Switzerland, including their storage rings.
Elementary Particles and the Universe
Author: John H. Schwarz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-07-21
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521017596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Murray Gell-Mann is one of the most influential and brilliant scientists of the twentieth century. His work on symmetries, including the invention of the 'quark', in the 1950s and early 1960s has provided a foundation for much of modern particle physics and was recognised by the award of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969. This book is a collection of research articles especially written by eminent scientists to celebrate Gell-Mann's 60th birthday, in September 1989. The main body of contributions are concerned with theoretical particle physics and its applications to cosmology.
Encounters with Einstein
Author: Werner Heisenberg
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1989-10-21
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 0691024332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines. Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time? Heisenberg discusses these issues in the most far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples.
Particles and Waves
Author: Peter Achinstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 019506755X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together six published and two new essays by the noted philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein. It represents the culmination of his examination of methodological issues that arise in nineteenth-century physics. He focuses on the philosophical problem of how, if at all, it is possible to confirm scientific hypotheses that postulate 'unobservables' such as light waves, molecules, and electrons. This question is one that not only was of great interest to nineteenth-century physicists and methodologists, but continues to occupy philosophers of science up to the present day. The essays in this volume deal with this vexing problem as it arose in actual scientific practice in three nineteenth-century episodes: the debate between particle and wave theorists of light, Maxwell's kinetic theory of gases, and J.J. Thomson's discovery of the electron. Achinstein shows that the most important issue raised by these three cases concerns the legitimacy of introducing hypotheses that invoke "unobservables". If science is to be empirical, can such hypotheses be employed? How, if at all, is it possible to confirm them?; Achinstein here assesses the philosophical validity of nineteenth-century and modern answers to these questions and presents and defends his own solutions
