Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Motion on Earth and in the Heavens
- 2 Energy, Heat and Chance
- 3 Electricity and Magnetism
- 4 Light
- 5 Space and Time
- 6 Least Action
- 7 Gravitation and Curved Spacetime
- 8 The Quantum Revolution
- 9 Quantum Theory with Special Relativity
- 10 Order Breaks Symmetry
- 11 Quarks and What Holds Them Together
- 12 Unifying Weak Forces with QED
- 13 Gravitation Plus Quantum Theory – Stars and Black Holes
- 14 Particles, Symmetries and the Universe
- 15 Queries
- APPENDIX A The Inverse-Square Law
- APPENDIX B Vectors and Complex Numbers
- APPENDIX C Brownian Motion
- APPENDIX D Units
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Motion on Earth and in the Heavens
- 2 Energy, Heat and Chance
- 3 Electricity and Magnetism
- 4 Light
- 5 Space and Time
- 6 Least Action
- 7 Gravitation and Curved Spacetime
- 8 The Quantum Revolution
- 9 Quantum Theory with Special Relativity
- 10 Order Breaks Symmetry
- 11 Quarks and What Holds Them Together
- 12 Unifying Weak Forces with QED
- 13 Gravitation Plus Quantum Theory – Stars and Black Holes
- 14 Particles, Symmetries and the Universe
- 15 Queries
- APPENDIX A The Inverse-Square Law
- APPENDIX B Vectors and Complex Numbers
- APPENDIX C Brownian Motion
- APPENDIX D Units
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Chapter
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- Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws , pp. 477 - 480Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001