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Nuclear Physics eBooks

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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

    R184,45

  • 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

    Free

  • Higgs Discovery

    The Power of Empty Space

    by Lisa Randall ...
    On July 4th, 2012, one of physics' most exhilarating results was announced: a new particle – and very likely a new kind of particle – had been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, the huge particle accelerator designed to reproduce energies present in the universe a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. The particle's existence had been speculated on for nearly fifty years: here, finally, ... Read more

    R258,39

  • Feynman Lectures Simplified 1B

    Harmonic Oscillators, & Thermodynamics

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Series series Everyone’s Guide to the Feynman Lectures on Physics
    Feynman Simplified gives mere mortals access to the fabled Feynman Lectures on Physics.As a Caltech undergraduate, I had the amazing opportunity to learn physics directly from the greatest scientist of our age. I absorbed all I could. His style and enthusiasm were as important as the facts and equations.Feynman’s mantra seemed to be: No Einstein Left Behind. He sought to inspire “the more advanced ... Read more

    R150,63 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    R348,90

  • Higgs Force

    Cosmic Symmetry Shattered

    by Nicholas Mee ...
    Higgs Force: Cosmic Symmetry Shattered by Nicholas Mee is the definitive account of the science leading up to the discovery of the Higgs particle and the researchers involved in this quest. This discovery by what is arguably the world's biggest and most expensive experiment - the Large Hadron Collider - represents the most important scientific breakthrough for 50 years. Higgs Force is written in a ... Read more

    R170,30

  • Elementary Primer For Gauge Theory, An

    by K Moriyasu ...
    Gauge theory is now recognized as one of the most revolutionary discoveries in physics since the development of quantum mechanics. This primer explains how and why gauge theory has dramatically changed our view of the fundamental forces of nature. The text is designed for the non-specialist. A new, intuitive approach is used to make the ideas of gauge theory accessible to both scientists and ... Read more

    R377,07

  • John von Neumann

    The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More

    by Norman Macrae ...
    John von Neumann was a Jewish refugee from Hungary considered a “genius” like fellow Hungarians Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller, who played key roles developing the A-bomb at Los Alamos during World War II. As a mathematician at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study (where Einstein was also a professor), von Neumann was a leader in the development of early computers. Later, he ... Read more

    R188,34

  • The Universe

    Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 7 - Best of Edge Series
    John Brockman brings together the world's best-known physicists and science writers—including Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winner Frank Wilczek, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Martin Rees—to explain the universe in all wondrous splendor.In The Universe, today's most influential science writers explain the science behind our evolving understanding of the universe and everything in it, ... Read more

    R192,50

  • Case Studies in Experimental Physics

    Why Scientists Pursue Investigation

    by Ronald Laymon, Allan Franklin ...
    Series series eBColl Synthesis Collection 11
    This book addresses the pursuit and further investigation of experimental results by analyzing classic examples from physics. The authors concentrate on the investigation of experimental results by examining case studies from the history of 20th and 21st century physics. Discussions on the discovery of parity nonconservation, the rise and fall of the Fifth Force, the search for neutrinoless double ... Read more

    R1 030,85

  • Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts on Politics and Peace Research

    Edited by Ulrich Bartosch ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a collection of texts by Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker (1912-2007), a major German universal scientist who was also a pioneer in physics, philosophy, religion on issues of politics and peace research. He worked with Werner Heisenberg and Otto Hahn in the German “Uranverein”, obtained a patent for plutonium during World War II and was an opponent of the nuclear armament of the ... Read more

    R859,04

  • Charm Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering

    Mellin Moments of Heavy Flavor Contributions to F2(x,Q^2) at NNLO

    by Sebastian Klein ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The production of heavy quarks in high-energy experiments offers a rich field to study, both experimentally and theoretically. Due to the additional quark mass, the description of these processes in the framework of perturbative QCD is much more demanding than it is for those involving only massless partons. In the last two decades, a large amount of precision data has been collected by the deep ... Read more

    R1 546,28

  • Neutrino Oscillations

    A Practical Guide to Basics and Applications

    by Fumihiko Suekane ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Neutrino oscillation (N.O.) is the only firm evidence of the physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics and is one of the hottest topics in elementary particle physics today. This book focuses on the N.O., from its history to the future prospects, from the basic theories to the experiments.Various phenomena of N.O. are described intuitively with thorough explanations of the fundamental ... Read more

    R1 116,75

  • Preventive and Protective Measures against Insider Threats

    by IAEA ...
    Series Book 8-G (Rev. 1) - IAEA Nuclear Security Series
    This publication is a revision of IAEA Nuclear Security Series No. 8, Preventive and Protective Measures against Insider Threats, published in 2008. The new publication provides updated guidance to States, their competent authorities and operators, and shippers and carriers on selecting, implementing and evaluating measures for addressing insider threats. It applies to any type of nuclear facility ... Read more

    R300,94

  • Establishing the Safety Infrastructure for a Nuclear Power Programme

    Specific Safety Guide

    by IAEA ...
    Series Book SSG-16 (Rev. 1) - IAEA Safety Standards Series
    This Safety Guide provides recommendations on the establishment of a framework for safety in accordance with the IAEA safety standards for States deciding on and preparing to embark on a nuclear power programme. In this regard, it proposes 197 safety related actions to be taken in the first three phases of the development of the nuclear power programme, to achieve the foundation for a high level ... Read more

    R626,85

  • Enhancing Nuclear Security Culture in Organizations Associated with Nuclear and Other Radioactive Material

    Technical Guidence

    by IAEA ...
    Series Book 38 - IAEA Nuclear Security Series
    Nuclear security culture is an important component of an effective nuclear security regime, as it serves as a tool to improve the performance of the human component at nuclear facilities and organizations to counter both insider and outsider threats. Security culture connotes not only the technical proficiency of the people but also their awareness of security risks and motivation to follow ... Read more

    R867,55

  • Foundations of Experimental Physics

    by Shailaja Mahamuni, Deepti Sidhaye, Sulabha Kulkarni ...
    All solids are composed of atoms or molecules and in order to explain their behavior, experiments and theories came forward. Simultaneously, many new materials were synthetically and systematically developed in the laboratories, properties of which needed to be understood before deploying them in various technologies. It is known that there is a strong correlation between structure and properties ... Read more

    R4 421,31

  • A Hardware Track-Trigger for CMS

    at the High Luminosity LHC

    by Thomas Owen James ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The work described in this PhD thesis is a study of a real implementation of a track-finder system which could provide reconstructed high transverse momentum tracks to the first-level trigger of the High Luminosity LHC upgrade of the CMS experiment. This is vital for the future success of CMS, since otherwise it will be impossible to achieve the trigger selectivity needed to contain the very high ... Read more

    R1 546,28

  • Elementary Particles And Emergent Phase Space

    by Piotr Zenczykowski ...
    The Standard Model of elementary particles, although very successful, contains various elements that are put in by hand. Understanding their origin requires going beyond the model and searching for “new physics”. The present book elaborates on one particular proposal concerning such physics. While the original conception is 50 years old, it has not lost its appeal over time. Its basic idea is that ... Read more

    R588,21

  • The Weak Interaction in Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics

    by K. Grotz ...
    The Weak Interaction in Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics presents concepts of the weak interaction and its integration into modern gauge theories of particle physics, such as grand unification and supersymmetry. The book explores the close connections between micro (nuclear and particle) physics and macro physics (astrophysics and cosmology) induced by the weak interaction. Special attention is ... Read more

    R3 971,66

  • Scattering of Particles and Radiation in Astrophysical Environments

    by Nicholas R. Lewkow ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This thesis considers the non-equilibrium and energy transfer processes involved in the evolution of astrophysical gases and plasmas. Momentum-energy transfer in collisions of atoms, molecules and ions governs the evolution of interacting astrophysical gas and plasmas. These collisions require an accurate quantum mechanical description and the work presented here develops a unified kinetic and ... Read more

    R1 546,28

  • Electromigration Modeling at Circuit Layout Level

    by Feifei He, Cher Ming Tan ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Integrated circuit (IC) reliability is of increasing concern in present-day IC technology where the interconnect failures significantly increases the failure rate for ICs with decreasing interconnect dimension and increasing number of interconnect levels. Electromigration (EM) of interconnects has now become the dominant failure mechanism that determines the circuit reliability. This brief ... Read more

    R859,04

  • Atomic Theories

    by F.H. Loring ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: 20th Century Science
    Summarising the most novel facts and theories which were coming into prominence at the time, particularly those which had not yet been incorporated into standard textbooks, this important work was first published in 1921. The subjects treated cover a wide range of research that was being conducted into the atom, and include Quantum Theory, the Bohr Theory, the Sommerfield extension of Bohr’s work, ... Read more

    R1 273,76

  • Polarization Bremsstrahlung on Atoms, Plasmas, Nanostructures and Solids

    by Valeriy Astapenko ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The book is devoted to the modern theory and experimental manifestation of Polarization Bremsstrahlung (PB) which arises due to scattering of charged particles from various targets: atoms, nanostructures (including atomic clusters, nanoparticle in dielectric matrix, fullerens, graphene-like two-dimensional atomic structure) and in condensed matter (monocrystals, polycrystals, partially ordered ... Read more

    R1 546,28