101 Quantum Questions - What You Need to Know About the World You Can''t See

Informationen zum Autor Kenneth W. Ford, retired director of the American Institute of Physics, has taught at university and high-school levels. His books include The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone and a memoir, In Love with Flying . Klappentext This reader-friendly, richly illustrated book provides an engaging overview of quantum physics, from ¿big ideas¿ like probability and uncertainty and conservation laws to the behavior of quarks and photons and neutrinos, and on to explanations of how a laser works and why black holes evaporate. Zusammenfassung This reader-friendly, richly illustrated book provides an engaging overview of quantum physics, from “big ideas” like probability and uncertainty and conservation laws to the behavior of quarks and photons and neutrinos, and on to explanations of how a laser works and why black holes evaporate.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth W Ford, Kenneth W. Ford, Kenneth W./ Hewitt Ford, Ford Kenneth W., Paul Hewitt
• Assisted by: Paul Hewitt (Illustration), Hewitt Paul (Illustration)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2012
• EAN: 9780674066076
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06607-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); popular science, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)