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Nuclear Physics eBooks

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  • Chernobyl

    The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    A Chernobyl survivor and New York Times** bestselling author delivers the definitive history of the worst nuclear accident in history.****“The most comprehensive and convincing history of Chernobyl yet to appear in English.” ―**Financial TimesOn the morning of April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. The outburst put the region on the brink of ... Read more

    S$ 15.25 SGD

  • Life and Death Rays

    Radioactive Poisoning and Radiation Exposure

    by Alan Perkins ...
    This unique book provides an accessible introduction to both the scientific background and the key people involved in the discovery and use of radiation and radioactivity. It begins by providing a short history of radiation exposures and radiation poisoning; from the early inappropriate use of X-rays and radium cures through the misadventures of the Manhattan Project and the Chernobyl disaster, to ... Read more

    S$ 53.63 SGD

  • Quantum Supremacy

    How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science – and Address Humanity’s Biggest Challenges

    by Michio Kaku ...
    An exhilarating guide to the astonishing future of quantum computing, from the international bestselling physicistThe runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with profound implications for our economy, society and way of life, even leaving Silicon Valley as a new Rust Belt, its technology obsolete. Step forward the quantum computer, which harnesses the power and ... Read more

    S$ 19.06 SGD

  • What's Gotten Into You

    The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

    by Dan Levitt ...
    For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are.Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms ... Read more

    S$ 19.39 SGD

  • Introducing Particle Physics

    A Graphic Guide

    by Tom Whyntie ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    What really happens at the most fundamental levels of nature?Introducing Particle Physics explores the very frontiers of our knowledge, even showing how particle physicists are now using theory and experiment to probe our very concept of what is real.From the earliest history of the atomic theory through to supersymmetry, micro-black holes, dark matter, the Higgs boson, and the possibly mythical ... Read more

    S$ 8.16 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nature's Blueprint

    Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force

    by Dan Hooper ...
    The first accessible book on a theory of physics that explains the relationship between the particles and forces that make up our universe.For decades, physicists have been fascinated with the possibility that two seemingly independent aspects of our world—matter and force—may in fact be intimately connected and inseparable facets of nature. This idea, known as supersymmetry, is considered by many ... Read more

    S$ 3.82 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Going Nuclear

    How the Atom Will Save the Planet

    by Tim Gregory ...
    What if climate change isn’t an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?'Fascinating' JAMES O'BRIEN'Thrilling...vividly written, filled with fascinating facts, and inspiring' STEVEN PINKERSunday Times**, i Paper and Nature Book of the Year**This visionary book urges us to rethink the path to net zero, arguing that the solution to climate change lie... ... Read more

    Was S$ 35.31 SGD Now S$ 19.06 SGD

  • The Standard Model and Beyond

    by Paul Langacker ...
    Series series Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation
    This new edition of The Standard Model and Beyond presents an advanced introduction to the physics and formalism of the standard model and other non-abelian gauge theories. It provides a solid background for understanding supersymmetry, string theory, extra dimensions, dynamical symmetry breaking, and cosmology. In addition to updating all of the experimental and phenomenological results from the ... Read more

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  • Black Sun

    Based on a true story, the critically acclaimed Soviet thriller

    by Owen Matthews ...
    **'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES'A stunning debut thriller . . . utterly terrifying . . . absolutely riveting' DAILY MAIL'Fascinating . . . fearsome' FREDERICK FORSYTH'Enthralling' FINANCIAL TIMES'Thrilling . . . compelling' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIOREHidden deep within central Soviet Russia is a place that doesn't appear on any ... ... Read more

    S$ 15.14 SGD

  • Quanta and Fields

    The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

    by Sean Carroll ...
    **The instant New York Times bestsellerQuanta and Fields, the second book of Sean Carroll’s already internationally acclaimed series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, is an adventure into the bare stuff of reality.**Sean Carroll is creating a profoundly new approach to sharing physics with a broad audience, one that goes beyond analogies to show how physicists really think. He cuts to the bare ... Read more

    S$ 6.42 SGD

  • A Comprehensive Overview of General Fusion

    An insight into the fusion lab that can transform how we power our planet

    by Amirali Banani ...
    Our world is facing an energy crisis like no other as the global population continues to grow at an unprecedented rate and nonrenewable energy production is becoming more and more unsustainable. Consequently, the need to generate clean, sustainable, renewable energy is more crucial than ever before — something that can be achieved with the development of commercially and economically viable ... Read more

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  • Dance of the Photons

    From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation

    by Anton Zeilinger ...
    The Nobel laureate in physics explains his experiments in quantum entanglement: "An accessible popular account of this fascinating field." — ScienceEinstein's steadfast refusal to accept certain aspects of quantum theory was rooted in his insistence that physics has to be about reality. Accordingly, he once derided as "spooky action at a distance" the notion that two elementary particles far ... Read more

    S$ 17.97 SGD

  • Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics

    The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures

    by Richard P. Feynman, Steven Weinberg ...
    Perhaps the two most important conceptual breakthroughs in twentieth century physics are relativity and quantum mechanics. Developing a theory that combines the two seamlessly is a difficult and ongoing challenge. This accessible book contains intriguing explorations of this theme by the distinguished physicists Richard Feynman and Steven Weinberg. Richard Feynman's contribution examines the ... Read more

    S$ 20.37 SGD

  • The Bastard Brigade

    The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

    by Sam Kean ...
    From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb.Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they were during World War II. In the middle of building an atomic bomb, the leaders of the Manhattan Project ... Read more

    S$ 17.54 SGD

  • Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Maxwell Irvine ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply. However, the term 'nuclear power' causes anxiety in many people and there is confusion concerning the nature and extent of the associated risks. Here, Maxwell Irvine ... Read more

    S$ 10.99 SGD

  • Perspective Universe

    Ultimate revelation of the worldview

    by Otto Ewald Heinrich Helmi Schulz ...
    Book Summary The presentation of Perspective Universe reveals the complete picture of the world with all the associated phenomena, although global science is still groping in the dark.Some chapters are supported by 11 detailed colored sketches, from which everyone can imagine an optimal impression of the visible universe. At the beginning of the gamma-ray burst (October 9, 2022), a galaxy formed ... Read more

    S$ 2.99 SGD

  • Novel Lights Sources Beyond Free Electron Lasers

    by Andrei Korol, Andrey V. Solov'yov ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book discusses possibilities and perspectives for designing and practical realization of novel intensive gamma-ray crystal-based light sources that can be constructed through exposure of oriented crystals—linear, bent and periodically bent, to beams of ultrarelativistic positrons and electrons.The book shows case studies like the tunable light sources based on periodically bent crystals that ... Read more

    S$ 191.28 SGD

  • Design of the Reactor Coolant System and Associated Systems for Nuclear Power Plants

    Specific Safety Guide

    by IAEA ...
    Series Book 56 - IAEA Safety Standards Series
    This Safety Guide provides recommendations on how to meet the requirements established in IAEA Safety Standards Series No. SSR-2/1 (Rev. 1) in relation to the reactor coolant system and associated systems for nuclear power plants. It is a revision of IAEA Safety Standards Series No. NS-G-1.9, which it supersedes. The publication takes into account developments, experience and practices in the ... Read more

    S$ 59.72 SGD

  • Computational Accelerator Physics 2003

    Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Accelerator Physics, Michigan, USA, 15-18 October 2003

    Edited by M Berz, K Makino ...
    Series series Institute of Physics Conference Series
    This volume provides an overview of the state of the art in computational accelerator physics, based on papers presented at the seventh international conference at Michigan State University in October 2002. The major topics covered in this volume include particle tracking and ray tracing, transfer map methods, field computation for time dependent M ... Read more

    S$ 618.92 SGD

  • What Little I Remember

    by Otto Robert Frisch ...
    Otto Robert Frisch took part in some of the most momentous developments in modern physics, notably the discovery of nuclear fission (a term which he coined). His work on the first atom bomb, which he saw explode in the desert “like the light of a thousand suns”, brought him into contact with figures such as Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Richard Feynman and the father of electronic computers, ... Read more

    S$ 13.74 SGD

  • From Photons To Higgs: A Story Of Light (2nd Edition)

    by Moo-young Han ...
    This book presents a brief introduction to the quantum field theory of the Standard Model for quarks and leptons. With minimal use of mathematics, it covers the basics of quantum field theory, local gauge field theory, spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism, the Higgs mechanism and quantum chromodynamics.From the time when the first edition was published until today, the field of particle physics ... Read more

    S$ 28.77 SGD

  • Advances in Nuclear Physics

    Structure and Reactions

    Edited by Rajeev K. Puri, Joerg Aichelin, Sakshi Gautam, Rohit Kumar ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume comprises select peer-reviewed papers from the Indo-French Workshop on Multifragmentation, Collective Flow, and Sub-Threshold Particle Production in Heavy-Ion Reactions held at the Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India in February, 2019. The contents highlight latest research trends in intermediate energy nuclear physics and emphasize on the various reaction ... Read more

    S$ 235.32 SGD

  • Basics of Atmospheric Dynamics

    by R.N. Keshavamurty ...
    The book discusses the basic of atmospheric dynamics where the curved surface of the earth and its rotation around its own axis plays very important roles. The emphasis is on basic physical concepts and the interpretation of equations and the different terms therein. Note: T&F does not sell or distribute the hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. ... Read more

    S$ 101.76 SGD

  • Theory of Atomic Nuclei

    Foundations

    by Bożena Nerlo-Pomorska, Krzysztof Roman Pomorski ...
    The dimension of a typical atom is 100.000 times larger than the size of its nucleus, however, around 99.975% of the mass of an atom is concentrated in its nucleus. This is why nuclear theory is sometimes called the theory of everything. Theory of Atomic Nuclei: Foundations selects some fundamental problems of the theory of atomic nuclei at low energy. It reviews specific nuclear physics issues in ... Read more

    S$ 101.76 SGD