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Author : Hans Albrecht Bethe
Publisher : American Institute of Physics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Basic Bethe written by Hans Albrecht Bethe and published by American Institute of Physics. This book was released on 1986 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. S. Schweber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849497
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Bomb written by S. S. Schweber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to create In 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contemplate disquieting questions about their roles and responsibilities. When the Cold War followed, they were confronted with political demands for their loyalty and McCarthyism's threats to academic freedom. By examining how J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hans A. Bethe—two men with similar backgrounds but divergent aspirations and characters—struggled with these moral dilemmas, one of our foremost historians of physics tells the story of modern physics, the development of atomic weapons, and the Cold War. Oppenheimer and Bethe led parallel lives. Both received liberal educations that emphasized moral as well as intellectual growth. Both were outstanding theoreticians who worked on the atom bomb at Los Alamos. Both advised the government on nuclear issues, and both resisted the development of the hydrogen bomb. Both were, in their youth, sympathetic to liberal causes, and both were later called to defend the United States against Soviet communism and colleagues against anti-Communist crusaders. Finally, both prized scientific community as a salve to the apparent failure of Enlightenment values. Yet their responses to the use of the atom bomb, the testing of the hydrogen bomb, and the treachery of domestic politics differed markedly. Bethe, who drew confidence from scientific achievement and integration into the physics community, preserved a deep integrity. By accepting a modest role, he continued to influence policy and contributed to the nuclear test ban treaty of 1963. In contrast, Oppenheimer first embodied a new scientific persona—the scientist who creates knowledge and technology affecting all humanity and boldly addresses their impact—and then could not carry its burden. His desire to retain insider status, combined with his isolation from creative work and collegial scientific community, led him to compromise principles and, ironically, to lose prestige and fall victim to other insiders. S. S. Schweber draws on his vast knowledge of science and its history—in addition to his unique access to the personalities involved—to tell a tale of two men that will enthrall readers interested in science, history, and the lives and minds of great thinkers.
Author : Gerald Edward Brown
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812566090
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Hans Bethe and His Physics written by Gerald Edward Brown and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hans Bethe, at the age of 97, asked his long-term collaborator, Gerry Brown, to explain his scientific work to the world, the latter knew that this was a steep task. As the late John Bahcall famously remarked: ?If you know his (Bethe's) work, you might be inclined to think he is really several people, all of whom are engaged in a conspiracy to sign their work with the same name?. Almost eight decades of original research, hundreds of scientific papers, numerous books, countless reports spanning the key areas of 20th century physics are the impressive record of Hans Bethe's academic work.In answering Bethe's request, the editors enlisted the help of experts in the different research fields, collaborators and friends of this ?last giant? of 20th century physics. Hans Bethe and His Physics is the result. It contains discussions of Hans Bethe's work in solid state physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics; it explains his contributions as a science advisor and his stance on energy and nuclear weapons; and it demonstrates his impact as a teacher and mentor to generations of young scientists. While the book's primary aim is to explain the science behind the man, the different articles also allow the reader to take a glimpse at the man behind the science.
Author : Silvan S. Schweber
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674065530
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Forces written by Silvan S. Schweber and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima, Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe called on his fellow scientists to stop working on weapons of mass destruction. What drove Bethe, the head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to renounce the weaponry he had once worked so tirelessly to create? That is one of the questions answered by Nuclear Forces, a riveting biography of Bethe’s early life and development as both a scientist and a man of principle. As Silvan Schweber follows Bethe from his childhood in Germany, to laboratories in Italy and England, and on to Cornell University, he shows how these differing environments were reflected in the kind of physics Bethe produced. Many of the young quantum physicists in the 1930s, including Bethe, had Jewish roots, and Schweber considers how Liberal Judaism in Germany helps explain their remarkable contributions. A portrait emerges of a man whose strategy for staying on top of a deeply hierarchical field was to tackle only those problems he knew he could solve. Bethe’s emotional maturation was shaped by his father and by two women of Jewish background: his overly possessive mother and his wife, who would later serve as an ethical touchstone during the turbulent years he spent designing nuclear bombs. Situating Bethe in the context of the various communities where he worked, Schweber provides a full picture of prewar developments in physics that changed the modern world, and of a scientist shaped by the unprecedented moral dilemmas those developments in turn created.
Author : Eberhard Zeidler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 354034764X
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Quantum Field Theory I: Basics in Mathematics and Physics written by Eberhard Zeidler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-18 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of a modern introduction to quantum field theory which addresses both mathematicians and physicists, at levels ranging from advanced undergraduate students to professional scientists. The book bridges the acknowledged gap between the different languages used by mathematicians and physicists. For students of mathematics the author shows that detailed knowledge of the physical background helps to motivate the mathematical subjects and to discover interesting interrelationships between quite different mathematical topics. For students of physics, fairly advanced mathematics is presented, which goes beyond the usual curriculum in physics.
Author : James Gleick
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679747044
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Genius written by James Gleick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993-11-02 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected.” The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction. Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels teh dense skein of Feynman‘s thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography—which was nominated for a National Book Award—of outstanding lucidity and compassion.
Author : John Dirk Walecka
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789812388988
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Theoretical Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics written by John Dirk Walecka and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a revised and updated version of the most comprehensive text on nuclear physics, first published in 1995. It maintains the original goal of providing a clear, logical, in-depth and unifying treatment of modern nuclear theory, ranging from the nonrelativistic many-body problem to the standard model of the strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions. In addition, new chapters on the theoretical and experimental advances made in nuclear physics in the past decade have been incorporated." "This book is designed to provide graduate students with a basic understanding of modern nuclear and hadronic physics needed to explore the frontiers of the field. Researchers will benefit from the updates on developments and the bibliography."--Jacket.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Journal of Mental Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jibamitra Ganguly
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461390192
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Diffusion, Atomic Ordering, and Mass Transport written by Jibamitra Ganguly and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the fundamental objectives of physical geochemistry is to understand the evolution of geochemical systems from microscopic to regional and global scales. At present there seems to be a general recognition of the fact that internal properties of minerals record important aspects of the evolutionary history of their host rocks which may be unraveled by very fine scale observations. A major focus in the development of geochemical research in the last thirty years has been the application of classical thermodynamics to reconstruct the conditions at which the states of quenched mineralogical properties of rocks have equilibrated during the course of their evolution. While these works have funda mentally influenced our understanding ofthe physico-chemical history ofrocks, in recent years petrologists, mineralogists, and geochemists have been making greater efforts towards the application of kinetic theories in order to develop a better appreciation of the temporal details of geochemical processes. The present volume brings together a variety of current research on transport in systems of geochemical interest from atomic to outcrop scales. A major theme is atomic migration or diffusion, and its various manifestations on microscopic and macroscopic scales. Transport in the solid state is controlled by diffusion and is responsible for the states of atomic ordering and relaxation of composi tional zoning in minerals, development of compositional zoning during cooling, exsolution lamellae, and creep.
Author : V. G. Gurzadyan
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814440337
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Low Dimensional Physics and Gauge Principles written by V. G. Gurzadyan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stefan Hiermaier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387738630
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Structures Under Crash and Impact written by Stefan Hiermaier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the testing and modeling of materials and structures under dynamic loading conditions. Readers get an in-depth analysis of the current mathematical modeling and simulation tools available for a variety of materials, alongside discussions of the benefits and limitations of these tools in industrial design. Following a logical and well organized structure, this volume uniquely combines experimental procedures with numerical simulation, and provides many examples.
Author : G. W. Series
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789971502614
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Spectrum of Atomic Hydrogen--advances written by G. W. Series and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1988 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than a century of study, the hydrogen atom still presents challenges and opportunities to theoretical as well as to experimental physicists. The discovery of the Lamb shift in the late nineteen forties, followed by the development of QED and the introduction of powerful new experimental techniques in the nineteen sixties and seventies, have preserved for hydrogen its central place in atomic physics. Part I of this book, a reprint of the work published in 1957, covers the period from the earliest days up to the late nineteen fifties. Part II, a collection of progress reports written by well-known specialists on hydrogen and hydrogen-like systems, presents the advances in theory and experiment that have occurred since that time.
Author : William J Broad
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671628208
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Star Warriors written by William J Broad and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1986-10-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.
Author : Michael Eckert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461474612
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Arnold Sommerfeld written by Michael Eckert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of the book is a biography of the theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951). Although Sommerfeld is famous as a quantum theorist for the elaboration of the semi-classical atomic theory (Bohr-Sommerfeld model, Sommerfeld's fine-structure constant), his role in the history of modern physics is not confined to atoms and quanta. Sommerfeld left his mark in the history of mathematics, fluid mechanics, a number of physical subdisciplines and, in particular, as founder of a most productive "school" (Peter Debye, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Linus Pauling and Hans Bethe were his pupils, to name only the Nobel laureates among them). This biography is to a large extent based on primary source material (correspondence, diaries, unpublished manuscripts). It should be of particular interest to students who are keen to know more about the historical roots of modern science. Sommerfeld lived through turbulent times of German history (Wilhelmian Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi period). His life, therefore, illustrates how science and scientists perform in changing social environments. From this perspective, the biography should also attract readers with a general interest in the history of science and technology.
Author : S. S. Schweber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691213283
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book QED and the Men Who Made It written by S. S. Schweber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, physics was in a crisis. There appeared to be no way to reconcile the new theory of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity. Several approaches had been tried and had failed. In the post-World War II period, four eminent physicists rose to the challenge and developed a calculable version of quantum electrodynamics (QED), probably the most successful theory in physics. This formulation of QED was pioneered by Freeman Dyson, Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, three of whom won the Nobel Prize for their work. In this book, physicist and historian Silvan Schweber tells the story of these four physicists, blending discussions of their scientific work with fascinating biographical sketches. Setting the achievements of these four men in context, Schweber begins with an account of the early work done by physicists such as Dirac and Jordan, and describes the gathering of eminent theorists at Shelter Island in 1947, the meeting that heralded the new era of QED. The rest of his narrative comprises individual biographies of the four physicists, discussions of their major contributions, and the story of the scientific community in which they worked. Throughout, Schweber draws on his technical expertise to offer a lively and lucid explanation of how this theory was finally established as the appropriate way to describe the atomic and subatomic realms.
Author : Raymond L. Murray
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 0080919448
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Energy written by Raymond L. Murray and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear Energy is one of the most popular texts ever published on basic nuclear physics, systems, and applications of nuclear energy. This newest edition continues the tradition of offering a holistic treatment of everything the undergraduate engineering student needs to know in a clear and accessible way. Presented is a comprehensive overview of radioactivity, radiation protection, nuclear reactors, waste disposal, and nuclear medicine. New coverage on nuclear safety concerns following 9/11, including radiation and terrorism, nuclear plant security, and use of nuclear techniques to detect weapons materials New facts on nuclear waste management, including the Yucca Mountain repository New developments in the use of nuclear-powered systems for generating cheap and abundant hydrogen from water using nuclear technology New information on prospects for new nuclear power reactors and their applications for electricity and desalination New end-of-chapter Exercises and Answers, lists of Internet resources, and updated references
Author : L. M. Peng
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191004782
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book High Energy Electron Diffraction and Microscopy written by L. M. Peng and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-08 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to high energy electron diffraction and elastic and inelastic scattering of high energy electrons, with particular emphasis on applications to modern electron microscopy. Starting from a survey of fundamental phenomena, the authors introduce the most important concepts underlying modern understanding of high energy electron diffraction. Dynamical diffraction in transmission (THEED) and reflection (RHEED) geometries is treated using a general matrix theory, where computer programs and worked examples are provided to illustrate the concepts and to familiarize the reader with practical applications. Diffuse and inelastic scattering and coherence effects are treated comprehensively both as a perturbation of elastic scattering and within the general multiple scattering quantum mechanical framework of the density matrix method. Among the highlights are the treatment of resonance diffraction of electrons, HOLZ diffraction, the formation of Kikuchi bands and lines and ring patterns, and application of diffraction to monitoring of growing surfaces. Useful practical data are summarised in tables including those of electron scattering factors for all the neutral atoms and many ions, and the temperature dependent Debye-Waller factors given for over 100 elemental crystals and compounds.
