Nucleus : a trip into the heart of matter / Ray Mackintosh ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 143 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 142140351X : HRD
  • 9781421403519
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 539.7
LOC classification:
  • QC798   .N83 2011
Contents:
Introduction : our world and its infinite variety -- The size of things : from the immensity of space to the invisible world of the nucleus -- The discovery of nuclei : how a new world was revealed by radioactivity -- Particles or waves? : strange laws at the heart of matter -- Measuring nuclei : determining the shape and size of minute objects -- Strange nuclear material : the contents of a nucleus -- The nuclear landscape : the variety and abundance of nuclei -- Applications of nuclear physics : interactions with everyday life -- Nuclear architecture : from hydrogen to neutron stars -- Cosmic furnaces : the stars and the birth of elements -- Our violent origin : cosmology and the nuclear processes in the Big Bang.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 132) and indexes.

Introduction : our world and its infinite variety -- The size of things : from the immensity of space to the invisible world of the nucleus -- The discovery of nuclei : how a new world was revealed by radioactivity -- Particles or waves? : strange laws at the heart of matter -- Measuring nuclei : determining the shape and size of minute objects -- Strange nuclear material : the contents of a nucleus -- The nuclear landscape : the variety and abundance of nuclei -- Applications of nuclear physics : interactions with everyday life -- Nuclear architecture : from hydrogen to neutron stars -- Cosmic furnaces : the stars and the birth of elements -- Our violent origin : cosmology and the nuclear processes in the Big Bang.

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