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Paperback Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction Book

ISBN: 0192804340

ISBN13: 9780192804341

Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction

(Part of the Very Short Introductions (#109) Series and Oxford's Very Short Introductions series (#109) Series)

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Book Overview

In Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, best-selling author Frank Close provides a compelling and lively introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe. The book begins with a guide to what matter is made up of and how it evolved, and goes on to describe the fascinating and cutting-edge techniques used to study it. The author discusses particles such as quarks, electrons, and the neutrino, and exotic matter and antimatter...

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Rated 5 stars
A good short introduction to Particle Physics.

This small 100 page book was just enough info for me on particle physics. I'm not interested in the heavy math, just to understand the characteristics of the particle families and how they interact. I enjoyed it, a good, simple read. I would try another subject in this same series.

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Rated 5 stars
Good intro

I agree with many other readers in that you could do worse in finding a book on Particle Physics. The book is not overly academic. Sometimes it can get a little detailed and requires some extra attention, but I feel the reader could forget these parts and still have a good basic idea of what particle physics is about. Someone who reads this will feel a little more in the know when they read news articles about the subject,...

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Rated 5 stars
Particle Physics for the rest of us

One of the most intriguing and fascinating scientific stories of the 20th century has been the incredible advance in our understanding of matter in its most fundamental form. In a nutshell, the 20th century has seen the vindication of the atomic hypothesis: all of the nature, the matter and even the interactions of matter, can be reduced to a finite number of indivisible particles. It turns out that atoms, the original candidates...

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Rated 5 stars
Superb short treatment

We owe a debt of gratitude to Frank Close for writing such a short and comprehensible introduction to a field that, in everyday scientific practice, is as technical and complex as they come. It is a major accomplishment to set out, in under 150 pages, not just the history of particle physics, the scales of time and space being investigated, the development of experimental techniques from Rutherford to the Large Hadron Collider,...

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Rated 5 stars
Not boring to read

This book is excellent for anyone who would like to learn fundamentals of particle physics, or refresh his or her basic knowledge in the area. Particles are on the forefront of physics, with new ones discovered or proven to exist not long ago, with new theories emerging, or old ones confirmed or found inconsistent, chances are what we know about particles today is somewhat different than what you may have learned in school...

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