Atoms and photons and quanta, oh my! :ask the physicist about atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics /

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"Version: 20140601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Let there be light! -- Introduction -- History -- What are force fields? -- Electric and magnetic fields -- Maxwell's equationsQuanta and photons, oh my! -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Black-body radiation -- The photoelectric effect -- Compton scattering -- de Broglie's hypothesis -- What's waving? -- The Heisenberg uncertainty principleAtoms, oh my! -- Atomic sizes and masses -- Atomic spectra -- The discovery of the electron -- Ernest Rutherford and the 'nuclear model' -- The Bohr model of the hydrogen atom -- The modern atomic modelNuclear physics -- Introduction -- Discovery of the neutron -- The nuclear force (the strong interaction) -- Nuclear masses and binding energies -- Nuclear systematics -- Radioactivity -- Nuclear fission -- Nuclear fusion -- The standard modelEpilogue -- Ask the psychic -- Off the wall hall of fameAppendices. -- A. The constants of electricity and magnetism -- B. Energy -- C. Elastic collisions -- D. Commonly used units -- E. The Schr?odinger equation -- F. The Bohr model of hydrogen -- G. Detecting spin -- H. Chronology -- I. Miscellaneous calculations and computations.This is the second book in the 'Ask the Physicist' series. The first book, From Newton to Einstein: Ask the physicist about mechanics and relativity, provides an excellent foundation for this book that covers topics in 'modern' physics. The main emphasis of this volume is providing an accessible introduction to quantum physics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics to anyone with at least high-school physics knowledge.Senior high school/early undergraduate/trade with interest in physics.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.'The physicist' is F. Todd Baker. He received AB and MA degrees from Miami University and a PhD degree from the University of Michigan. His area of research is nuclear physics and has published more than 70 articles in refereed journals as well as given numerous presentations at conferences and workshops. He has more than 35 years of college and university teaching experience. In 2006 he retired from the University of Georgia where he taught and performed nuclear physics research for 32 years. Previously, he held a postdoctoral research associate position at Rutgers University and teaching positions at Carroll College (Wisconsin) and St Lawrence University. He now lives in Athens, Georgia, with his wife Sara in a 100-year-old house mainly restored by him and decorated and landscaped by her. He has four beloved children aged 18-45 years. He enjoys cycling around town, playing violin, cooking and baking, outdoor activities, DIY projects, films, music of many genres, working puzzles, reading mainly European murder mysteries, and hanging out in coffee houses.Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 1, 2015).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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9781627059398

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Nuclear physics
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