Author: Physics Survey Overview CommitteeBoard on Physics
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: physics, era, new, series, overview
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-06-15
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0309073421
ISBN-13: 9780309073424

Physics at the beginning of the twenty-first century has reached new levels of accomplishment and impact in a society and nation that are changing rapidly. Accomplishments have led us into the information age and fueled broad technological and economic development. The pace of discovery is quickening and stronger links with other fields such as the biological sciences are being developed. The intellectual reach has never been greater, and the questions being asked are more ambitious than ever before. "Physics in a New Era" is the final report of the NRC’s six-volume decadal physics surve

Authors:Nuclear Physics Panel, Physics Survey Committee, B
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: physics, series, 1990s, nuclear
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1986-01-01
List price: $64.75
ISBN-10: 0309035473
ISBN-13: 9780309035477

Illustrated. Overview of twentieth century nuclear physics. Topics include an introduction to Nuclear Physics, Major advances, the impact of nuclear physics, frontiers (eg the quark-gluon plasma), etc. Bibliography, Glossary, Index.

Author: Physics Survey CommitteeBoard on Physics and Astr
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: physics, series, 1990s, overview
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1986-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0309035813
ISBN-13: 9780309035811

Author: Solar and Space Physics Survey CommitteeCommittee
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: reports, panel, earth, sun
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-11-17
List price: $55.50
ISBN-10: 0309089727
ISBN-13: 9780309089722

Author: Solar and Space Physics Survey CommitteeNational
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: solar, space, physics, strategy, research, earth, decadal, sun
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2003-08-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0309085098
ISBN-13: 9780309085090

The sun is the source of energy for life on earth and is the strongest modulator of the human physical environment. In fact, the Sun’s influence extends throughout the solar system, both through photons, which provide heat, light, and ionization, and through the continuous outflow of a magnetized, supersonic ionized gas known as the solar wind. While the accomplishments of the past decade have answered important questions about the physics of the Sun, the interplanetary medium, and the space environments of Earth and other solar system bodies, they have also highlighted other questions,

Author: Elementary-Particle Physics Panel Physics Survey
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: physics, series, 1990s, elementary, particle
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1986-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0309035767
ISBN-13: 9780309035767

A book in a series on Physics in a New Era, that contains an assessment & recommendation about the role that the U.S. should play in the research of element-particle physics. Paper.Book DescriptionPart of the Physics in a New Era series of assessments of the various branches of the field, Elementary-Particle Physics reviews progress in the field over the past 10 years and recommends actions needed to address the key questions that remain unanswered. It explains in simple terms the present picture of how matter is constructed. As physicists have probed ever deeper into the structure of matter,

Author: Panel on Condensed-Matter PhysicsPhysics Survey C
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: physics, series, 1990s, condensed, matter
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1986-01-01
List price: $84.75
ISBN-10: 0309035775
ISBN-13: 9780309035774