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There is oneTeacher's Guide which corresponds with each Student Activities Book, and consists of two parts: Answers and InstructionalAids forTeachers, and Answer Sheets. The Answers and Instructional Aids for Teachers provides advice for how to optimize the effectiveness of the activities, as well as brief explanations and comments on each question in the student activites. The Answer Sheets may be duuplicated and distributed to students as desired. Use of theAnswer Sheets is particularly recommended for activities requiring a lot of graphing or drawing.

Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these basic interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our everyday world go round. This book tells the story of gauge fields, from Maxwell's 1860 theory of electromagnetism to the 1954 theory of Yang and Mills that underlies the Standard Model of elementary particle theory. In the course of the narration, the author introduces people and events in experimental and theoretical physics that contribute to ideas that have shaped our conception of the physical world.

There is oneTeacher's Guide which corresponds with each Student Activities Book, and consists of two parts: Answers and InstructionalAids forTeachers, and Answer Sheets. The Answers and Instructional Aids for Teachers provides advice for how to optimize the effectiveness of the activities, as well as brief explanations and comments on each question in the student activites. The Answer Sheets may be duuplicated and distributed to students as desired. Use of the Answer Sheets is particularly recommended for activities requiring a lot of graphing or drawing.

Following the discovery of the Higgs boson, Frank Close has produced this major revision to his classic and compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe.

There are no more mysteries! The deepest secrets of physical nature are now completely revealed! Did you ever wonder how everything came into existence? What is matter made of? What are, in fact, space and time, and why do elementary particles interact? And the one I like most: what is gravity and how does it exert its force throughout the Universe? Look no further: all the answers to these "big" questions are right here, put as simply as possible. No more hiding behind formulas and theories only a few can understand: now the naked truth comes in simple words that can easily describe our complex reality. This original, fascinating, paradigm-shifting theory unifies all of nature's fundamental forces into a single interaction, whose mechanics is based on space granularity - the only intrinsic characteristic of space physicists always avoided considering. The granular fabric of space actually makes possible the existence of matter and its continuous motion, which embeds relativity as a governing rule. Starting from these basic premises, simple kinematics equations were figured out to easily explain the concepts of mass, field, electric charge and even the photon. Moreover, they are logically connected to well known principles and laws of physics. The true nature of reality and the real sense of all things are now unfolded at any scale. This innovative vision also allows a deeper perspective over the Universe evolution since the beginning of time, which includes a mind-blowing hypothesis on its birth and a dark prediction for its future.

Feynman’s bestselling introduction to the mind-blowing physics of QED—presented with humor, not mathematics Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the public. In this extraordinary book, Feynman provides a lively and accessible introduction to QED, or quantum electrodynamics, an area of quantum field theory that describes the interactions of light with charged particles. Using everyday language, spatial concepts, visualizations, and his renowned Feynman diagrams instead of advanced mathematics, Feynman clearly and humorously communicates the substance and spirit of QED to the nonscientist. With an incisive introduction by A. Zee that places Feynman’s contribution to QED in historical context and highlights Feynman’s uniquely appealing and illuminating style, this Princeton Science Library edition of QED makes Feynman’s legendary talks on quantum electrodynamics available to a new generation of readers.

This history of physics focuses on the question, "How do bodies act on one another across space?" The variety of answers illustrates the function of fundamental analogies or models in physics, as well as the role of so-called unobservable entities. Forces and Fields presents an in-depth look at the science of ancient Greece, and it examines the influence of antique philosophy on seventeenth-century thought. Additional topics embrace many elements of modern physics—the empirical basis of quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle, and the action-at-a-distance theory of Wheeler and Feynman. The introductory chapter, in which the philosophical view is developed, can be omitted by readers more interested in history. Author Mary B. Hesse examines the use of analogies in primitive scientific explanation, particularly in the works of Aristotle, and contrasts them with latter-day theories such as those of gravitation and relativity. Hesse incorporates studies of the Pre-Socratics initiated by Francis Cornford and continued by contemporary classical historians. Her perspective sheds considerable light on the scientific thinking of antiquity, and it highlights the debt that the seventeenth-century natural philosophers owed to Greek ideas.

A completely New Understanding of Reality! Presenting FET, a new model that meets physicists' criteria for what they term The Theory of Everything and provides answers to many unsolved mysteries of physics. FET describes the qualitative vacuum energies, the Fundamental Energies in the zero-point filed underlying and constituting the entire physical world, explaining dark matter, dark energy, particles, mass, Higgs field, gravity, space-time and much more. Leif Pettersson has succeeded in presenting this complex, astounding material in a clear-cut, rational and comprehensive way. The subject is highly topical and of great public interest it connects to the research at CERN and it also matches the presentation of science and popular science in today's media. The book is richly illustrated in color. Physicists have worked intensively for a long time to understand our physical world. They have also been struggling to unify the four forces of nature: gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces into a Theory of Everything, but so far without success. In this book Leif Pettersson presents a groundbreaking and very exciting material with theories based on the intuitive knowledge contained in Martinus Cosmology. These theories demonstrate a new model, The Fundamental Energy Theory FET, that without any contradiction unifies the four fundamental forces of nature, and in fact gives us The Theory of Everything! Hypotheses are presented that may explain the mechanisms behind Einsteins General and Special Theories of Relativity, quantum physics with its hypothetical gravitons, Higgs particles etc. and the enigmatic dark matter, dark energy and a lot more. The Fundamental Energy Theory offers a logical, coherent key to many of the unsolved mysteries of physics, e.g. those being currently studied in the worlds biggest research project so far, the particle accelerator in CERN. The book is made available by New Cosmic Paradigm (NCP), an independent organization representing and working with the branch of the intuitive knowledge contained in Martinus Cosmology that is building bridges to Science, focusing on the great issues about Life, Consciousness and Reality posed by humanity and science. This branch is especially represented by Per Bruus-Jensen, former trainee and collaborator with Martinus. Physics, Martinus Cosmolgy and The Theory of Everything The Fundamental Energy Theory FET by Leif Pettersson is an important addition to this field. More information at www.newcosmicparadigm.org Welcome!

The Forces of Matter is a series of six scientific lectures by author and scientist Michael Faraday. Faraday, who was known as a popularizer of science presents lectures around the topics of gravitation, cohesion, chemical affinity, heat, magnetism and electricity.