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Nucleus : a trip into the heart of matter
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- Creator
- Ray Mackintosh ... [and others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Second edition
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- 143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781421403519, 142140351X
- OCLC
- ocn774910813
- Includes bibliographical references (page 132) and indexes.
- Introduction : our world and its infinite variety -- The size of things : from the immensity of space to the invisible world of the nucleus -- The discovery of nuclei : how a new world was revealed by radioactivity -- Particles or waves? : strange laws at the heart of matter -- Measuring nuclei : determining the shape and size of minute objects -- Strange nuclear material : the contents of a nucleus -- The nuclear landscape : the variety and abundance of nuclei -- Applications of nuclear physics : interactions with everyday life -- Nuclear architecture : from hydrogen to neutron stars -- Cosmic furnaces : the stars and the birth of elements -- Our violent origin : cosmology and the nuclear processes in the Big Bang