Basic Concepts in Physics From the Cosmos to Quarks /

"Basic Concepts in Physics: From the Cosmos to Quarks" is the outcome of the authors' long and varied teaching experience in different countries and for different audiences, and gives an accessible and eminently readable introduction to all the main ideas of modern physics. The book’s...

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Main Authors: Chaichian, Masud. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Perez Rojas, Hugo. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tureanu, Anca. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19598-3
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