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100	1		_aEconomou, Eleftherios N. _eauthor.
245	1	2	_aA Short Journey from Quarks to the Universe _h[electronic resource] / _cby Eleftherios N. Economou.
264		1	_aBerlin, Heidelberg : _bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg, _c2011.
300			_aXIII, 146p. 20 illus. _bonline resource.
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aSpringerBriefs in Physics ; _v1
505	0		_aPreface -- Introduction: The World according to Physics Levels of the structure of mater -- PART 1: Three key-ideas and a short-cut -- The atomic idea -- The wave-particle duality -- Equilibrium and minimization of total energy -- Dimensional analysis: A short-cut to physics relations -- PART 2: This World, this small World, the great -- From quark and gluons to hadrons -- From protons and neutrons to nuclei -- From nuclei and electrons to atoms -- From atoms to molecules -- From atoms and molecules to solids and liquids -- Planets -- Stars, dead or alive -- Cosmology -- Revisiting photons.
520			_aThis book takes the reader for a short journey over the structures of matter showing that their main properties can be obtained even at a quantitative level with a minimum background knowledge. The latter, besides some high school physics and mathematics, consists of the three cornerstones of science presented in chapters 1 to 3, namely the atomic idea, the wave-particle duality, and the minimization of energy as the condition for equilibrium. Dimensional analysis employing the universal constants and combined with “a little imagination and thinking”, to quote Feynman, allows an amazing short-cut derivation of several quantitative results concerning the structures of matter. This book is expected to be of interest to physics, engineering, and other science students and to researchers in physics, material science, chemistry, and engineering who may find stimulating the alternative derivation of several real world results, which sometimes seem to pop out the magician’s hat.
650		0	_aPhysics.
650		0	_aGeography.
650	1	4	_aPhysics.
650	2	4	_aAtomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.
650	2	4	_aAstrophysics and Astroparticles.
650	2	4	_aClassical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.
650	2	4	_aOptics and Electrodynamics.
650	2	4	_aApplied Earth Sciences.
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776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783642200885
830		0	_aSpringerBriefs in Physics ; _v1
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