Summary: An undergraduate course for nonscience majors that treats the atom as a tool for revealing the quantitative history of everything--from the human diet and works of art to Earth's climate and the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.09 PHYSummary: "An acclaimed physicist uses analogies to everyday life to teach the rules that govern the microscopic world of particles in this accessible introduction to quantum theory."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Great Courses 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.12 UNDSummary: What's the most common, yet most elusive and least understood, particle in the universe? The neutrino. Starting with the invention of the nuclear bomb, billions of dollars have been spent in pursuit of this so-called ghost particle. Outnumbering atoms a billion to one, neutrinos are preposterously plentiful, they hardly interact with anything, and they mystifyingly morph between three different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Time is as mysterious as it is familiar ..." An exploration of the mysteries of why time works the way it does "addressed by physics, philosophy, biology, neuroscience, and cosmology"--Page 1
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012