Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Physics(English, Paperback, Griffiths David J.)

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Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Physics(English, Paperback, Griffiths David J.) is written by Griffiths David J. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107602173 (ISBN 10) and 9781107602175 (ISBN 13).

The conceptual changes brought by modern physics are important, radical and fascinating, yet they are only vaguely understood by people working outside the field. Exploring the four pillars of modern physics - relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles and cosmology - this clear and lively account will interest anyone who has wondered what Einstein, Bohr, Schroedinger and Heisenberg were really talking about. The book discusses quarks and leptons, antiparticles and Feynman diagrams, curved space-time, the Big Bang and the expanding Universe. Suitable for undergraduate students in non-science as well as science subjects, it uses problems and worked examples to help readers develop an understanding of what recent advances in physics actually mean.