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  • Exploring the Large Hadron Collider - the Detectors

    The World Machine Clearly Explained

    by Michael Hauschild ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Michael Hauschild takes the reader of this essential back to September 2008 to the bumpy start of the Large Hadron Collider LHC, the world's largest particle accelerator and today's world machine at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland; one of the most fascinating research centers of all. The author explains how the initial ideas led to the creation of the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Exploring the Large Hadron Collider – The Discovery of the Higgs Particle

    The World Machine Clearly Explained

    by Michael Hauschild ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Michael Hauschild takes the reader of this essential back to the year 2012, when the discovery of the Higgs particle was announced at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland. The author vividly explains the Higgs mechanism for mass generation with the central role of the Higgs particle in current particle physics and the long hunt for its discovery at the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Exploring the Large Hadron Collider - CERN and the Accelerators

    The World Machine Clearly Explained

    by Michael Hauschild ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Michael Hauschild takes the reader of this essential back to the beginnings of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland; one of the most fascinating research centres of all, its history, its people and its accelerators. The author explains how particle accelerators work and, starting from the first ideas, how the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    a QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide

    by BarCharts Publishing, Inc. ...
    Best-selling guide for over 20 years and an essential companion for students taking chemistry courses of any level, this laminated six page guide is a must-have for reference throughout science courses as a serious study tool and quick refresher for the core concepts, terms, equations and periodic elements. Author and Harvard PhD, Mark D. Jackson, a scientist and university chemistry professor ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Quantum Mechanics 1: Particles & Waves

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    With this book you begin exploring the mysterious world of Quantum Mechanics — two words that have for over 100 years struck terror in the hearts of both physics students and the general public. As we shall see, the behavior of nature is remarkably surprising in the micro-world of molecules, atoms, and everything smaller yet. But this should be a surprise of wonder instead of terror. For most of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Higgs & Bosons & Fermions .... Oh My

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    This book explores the Micro-World of subatomic particles and forces, including the recently discovered Higgs boson.The pursuit of nature’s smallest parts is one of mankind’s oldest quests, beginning at least 26 centuries ago. But, just in our lifetimes it seems we’ve finally “hit bottom.” Each step deeper into the Micro-World has revealed surprises, and expanded our understanding of nature on all ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • General Relativity 3: Astrophysics with Tensor Calculus

    Advanced Topics

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    All of modern astrophysics and cosmology stands on the foundation of General Relativity that is best expressed in tensors.This book, and its sequel, General Relativity 4: Astrophysics & Cosmology, present the clearest, most comprehensible, and most complete introduction to the tensor calculus of differential topology, which Einstein used to explain the cosmos. Derivations that are difficult to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • General Relativity 2: Spacetime Curvature

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    This book continues our exploration of the most profound theory of science, Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. We examine more carefully the properties of spacetime, the unity of space and time. We explore the major features of curvature, how to measure it, and how to reduce its complexity to finding distances between nearby points. We find a simple expression, 2M/r, which proves ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Cracking Quantum Physics

    by Brian Clegg ...
    Enter the invisible world of sub-atomic physics and discover the very core of existence. Cracking Quantum Physics takes you through every area of particle physics to clearly explain how our world was, and is, created, and breaks down the most complex theories into easily understandable elements.Subjects covered include:-Time travel-The Higgs field-Dark Matter-The anatomy of the elements-Enter the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Sun, Stars, and Galaxies

    by Michael Anderson ...
    Series series The Solar System
    Most avid sky gazers wait until nightfall to catch a glimpse of the stars that are scattered across the heavens. The fact of the matter is that one needs only to feel the Sun’s rays in order to experience the presence of a star. The Sun is an ordinary star, a ball of hot gas much like millions of others in the universe, but as the center of the solar system, it is critical to the survival of all ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quantum Mechanics 4: Spin, Lasers, Pauli Exclusion & Barrier Penetration

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    This book is the fourth stage of our exploration of Quantum Mechanics in the Everyone’s Guide Series.We first review waves and particle-wave duality. We'll revisit the Uncertaintly Principle, and discuss the Two-Slit Experiment in depth.Then, we delve deeper into wavefunctions and explore more Quantum Mechanical mysteries: barrier penetration and spin. We’ll discover how barrier penetration allows ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Special Relativity 2: Spacetime & Space Travel

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    This is the second book in the Everyone’s Guide Series devoted to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity. Readers will benefit from a prior reading of Special Relativity 1: Light, Time, & What’s Relative. Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are the two major pillars of 20th century physics, which together revolutionized our understanding of nature, utterly dismantling Newtonian physics that had ... Read more

    $2.99 USD