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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

    R184,10

  • 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

    R257,82

  • 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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  • The Universe

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

    by John Brockman ...
    Series series 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

    R186,52

  • 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

    R182,47

  • 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

    R145,94 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    R365,34

  • 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

    R338,09

  • 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

    R169,97

  • 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

    R47,49

  • Quantum Mechanics In Potential Representation And Applications

    by Donatas Jurgaitis, Arvydas Juozapas Janavicius ...
    This book is written with a focus on new mathematical methods and physical modeling that lay the groundwork for an interpretation to various experimental results and phenomena in nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, and particle physics. Summarized in three parts, the main topics of the book are as follows.The first part importantly addresses scattering theory and nuclear reactions, with the usage ... Read more

    R1 139,75

  • New Physics At The Large Hadron Collider - Proceedings Of The Conference

    by Harald Fritzsch ...
    The Standard Theory of Particle Physics describes successfully the observed strong and electroweak interactions, but it is not a final theory of physics, since many aspects are not understood: (1) How can gravity be introduced in the Standard Theory? (2) How can we understand the observed masses of the leptons and quarks as well as the flavor mixing angles? (3) Why are the masses of the neutrinos ... Read more

    R1 958,09

  • Física nuclear

    by Angela Kinoshita ...
    Series series Série Universitária
    A Série Universitária foi desenvolvida pelo Senac São Paulo com o intuito de preparar profissionais para o mercado de trabalho. Os títulos abrangem diversas áreas, abordando desde conhecimentos teóricos e práticos adequados às exigências profissionais até a formação ética e sólida. Física nuclear apresenta o histórico ligado aos modelos atômicos e dos núcleos, as propriedades dos núcleos e os ... Read more

    R112,00

  • 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

    R2 256,98

  • 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

    R601,78

  • 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

    R8 601,27

  • 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

    R182,47

  • 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

    R321,53

  • 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

    R2 777,81

  • 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

    R1 395,90

  • 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

    R1 395,90

  • Leptons And Quarks (Special Edition Commemorating The Discovery Of The Higgs Boson)

    by Lev Borisovich Okun ...
    The book “Leptons and Quarks” was first published in the early 1980s, when the program of the experimental search for the intermediate bosons W and Z and Higgs boson H was formulated. The aim and scope of the present extended edition of the book, written after the experimental discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, is to reflect the various stages of this 30+ years search. Along with the text of ... Read more

    R496,90

  • International Seminars On Nuclear War And Planetary Emergencies - 48th Session: The Role Of Science In The Third Millennium

    by Richard C Ragaini ...
    Series Book 0 - The Science And Culture Series - Nuclear Strategy And Peace Technology
    Proceedings of the 48th Session of the International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies held in Erice, Sicily. This Seminar has again gathered, in 2015, over one hundred scientists from 43 countries in an interdisciplinary effort that has been going on for the last 32 years, to examine and analyze planetary problems which had been followed up, all year long, by the World Federation ... Read more

    R1 256,71

  • Cosmology for the Curious

    by Delia Perlov, Alex Vilenkin ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book is a gentle introduction for all those wishing to learn about modern views of the cosmos. Our universe originated in a great explosion – the big bang. For nearly a century cosmologists have studied the aftermath of this explosion: how the universe expanded and cooled down, and how galaxies were gradually assembled by gravity. The nature of the bang itself has come into focus only ... Read more

    R694,36