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- Covers applications of CM, EM and QM in the real world and focuses on important points usually missed by students
- Shows the student the power of dimensional analysis
- Emphasizes physical thinking rather than memorizing formulae
- Includes end-of-chapter summary of the important formulae, a series of multiple choice questions and solved and unsolved problems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Three Key-Ideas and a Short-Cut
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Front Matter
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Interactions
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Front Matter
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Structures Held Together by Strong Interactions
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Front Matter
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Structures Held Together by Electromagnetic Interactions
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Front Matter
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Gravity at the Front Stage
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book takes the reader for a short journey over the structures of matter showing that their main properties can be obtained even at a quantitative level with a minimum background knowledge including, besides first year calculus and physics, the extensive use of dimensional analysis and the three cornerstones of science, namely the atomic idea, the wave-particle duality and the minimization of energy as the condition for equilibrium. Dimensional analysis employing the universal physical constants and combined with “a little imagination and thinking”, to quote Feynman, allow an amazing short-cut derivation of several quantitative results concerning the structures of matter. In the current 2nd edition, new material and more explanations with more detailed derivations were added to make the book more student-friendly. Many multiple-choice questions with the correct answers at the end of the book, solved and unsolved problems make the book also suitable as a textbook. This book is ofinterest to students of physics, engineering and other science and to researchers in physics, material science, chemistry and engineering who may find stimulating the alternative derivation of several real world results which sometimes seem to pop out the magician’s hat.
Authors and Affiliations
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FORTH Institute, IESL, University of Crete, Iraklion, Greece
Eleftherios N. Economou
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Quarks to the Universe
Book Subtitle: A Short Physics Course
Authors: Eleftherios N. Economou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20654-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer international Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20653-0Published: 21 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79312-2Published: 27 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20654-7Published: 15 December 2015
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 326
Number of Illustrations: 83 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory