Research Catalog

Title

Nuclear and particle physics / W.S.C. Williams.

Author

Williams, W. S. C. (William S. C.)

Publication

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Details

Description

xiii, 385 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Summary

The author gives an introduction to the subject in which he encourages the reader to be mindful of the quantative as well as the descriptive aspects of phenomena as the key to verifying physical theories. He starts with basic theory and proceeds to the problems and applications of the science.

Subject

• Elementary Particles
• Nuclear Physics
• Nuclear physics
• Particles (Nuclear physics)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Some quantitative formalities -- The Size and shape of nuclei -- The Masses of nuclei -- Nuclear instability -- Alpha decay -- Nuclear collisions and reactions -- Nuclear models -- Forces and interactions -- Hadrons and the Quark-Parton model -- The Electromagnetic interaction -- The Weak interaction -- Particles : summary and outlook -- Nuclear and particle astrophysics.

ISBN

• 0198519990 :
• 0198520468 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^90007110^

OCLC

21337043

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library