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Author Silverman, Mark P.

Title And yet it moves : strange systems and subtle questions in physics / Mark P. Silverman
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993

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 MELB  530 Sil/Ayi  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. The unimaginably strange behaviour of free electrons -- 2. Quantum beats and giant atoms -- 3. And yet it moves: exotic atoms and the invariance of charge -- 4. Reflections on light -- 5. Two worlds, large and small: Earth and atom -- 6. The Wirbelrohr's roar (...or rather whistle) -- 7. Science and wonder
Notes Includes index
Bibliography "Selected papers by the author": pages 252-261
Subject Physics.
Quantum theory.
LC no. 92038729
ISBN 0521391733
0521446317 (paperback)