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基本説明
邦訳、2006年、筑摩書房刊。
Fascinating story of the discovery of the atom's constituents, told by Nobel prize-winning physicist. Provides a non-mathematical introduction to fundamental physics.
Full Description
In this absorbing commentary on the discovery of the atom's constituents, Steven Weinberg accomplishes a brilliant fusion of history and science. This is in effect two books, cleverly interwoven. One is an account of a sequence of key events in the physics of the twentieth century, events that led to the discoveries of the electron, proton and neutron. The other is an introduction to those fundamentals of classical physics that played crucial roles in these discoveries. Physical concepts are introduced where needed to understand the historical story, and each new concept builds on physics already explained. Throughout the book, connections are shown between the historic discoveries of subatomic particles and work today at the frontiers of physics. A final chapter describes the discoveries of new elementary particles up to the present day.
Contents
Preface to the first edition; Preface to the revised edition; 1. A world of particles; 2. The discovery of the electron; 3. The atomic scale; 4. The nucleus; 5. More particles; Appendices.