Başlık:
Atoms and photons and quanta, oh my! : ask the physicist about atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics
Yazar:
Baker, F. Todd, author.
ISBN:
9781627059398
Ek Yazar:
Fiziksel Tanım:
1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).
Series:
IOP concise physics,
IOP concise physics.
General Note:
"Version: 20140601"--Title page verso.
"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Preface -- Let there be light! -- Introduction -- History -- What are force fields? -- Electric and magnetic fields -- Maxwell's equations
Quanta and photons, oh my! -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Black-body radiation -- The photoelectric effect -- Compton scattering -- de Broglie's hypothesis -- What's waving? -- The Heisenberg uncertainty principle
Atoms, oh my! -- Atomic sizes and masses -- Atomic spectra -- The discovery of the electron -- Ernest Rutherford and the 'nuclear model' -- The Bohr model of the hydrogen atom -- The modern atomic model
Nuclear physics -- Introduction -- Discovery of the neutron -- The nuclear force (the strong interaction) -- Nuclear masses and binding energies -- Nuclear systematics -- Radioactivity -- Nuclear fission -- Nuclear fusion -- The standard model
Epilogue -- Ask the psychic -- Off the wall hall of fame
Appendices. -- A. The constants of electricity and magnetism -- B. Energy -- C. Elastic collisions -- D. Commonly used units -- E. The Schrödinger equation -- F. The Bohr model of hydrogen -- G. Detecting spin -- H. Chronology -- I. Miscellaneous calculations and computations.
Abstract:
This is the second book in the 'Ask the Physicist' series. The first book, From Newton to Einstein: Ask the physicist about mechanics and relativity, provides an excellent foundation for this book that covers topics in 'modern' physics. The main emphasis of this volume is providing an accessible introduction to quantum physics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics to anyone with at least high-school physics knowledge.
Reading Level:
Senior high school/early undergraduate/trade with interest in physics.
Electronic Access:
http://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-1-6270-5939-8