Invitation to Contemporary Physics, Hardcover by Ho-Kim, Q.; Lam, C. S.; Kuma...

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Invitation to Contemporary Physics, Hardcover by Ho-Kim, Q.; Lam, C. S.; Kumar, N., ISBN 9812383026, ISBN-13 9789812383020, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK This second edition of an introduction to ten important areas in modern physics adds three new chapters on Bose-Einstein condensation, nanostructures, and quantum computation and information. Written to be accessible to general readers and university undergraduates, th describes natural phenomena and explains them in terms of basic principles, relying on physical insight instead of equations. Other areas covered are lasers and physics, symmetry in nature, superconductivity, chaos, bright stars and black holes, elementary particles and forces, and cosmology. Chapter problems and solutions are included. Ho-Kim is recently retired from teaching physics at Université Laval, Canada. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• ISBN: 9789812383020
• Condition: Fine

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