Conservation laws, reflecting the symmetry of space and time, play a vital role in understanding the surrounding world. Conservation laws allow us to explain very different phenomena from a unified point of view. The textbook illustrates this principle taking examples from mechanics, optics, nuclear physics, solid-state physics, and medicine. They include, for example, positron annihilation used in experiments aimed at neutrino registration and in the positron emission tomography for patient diagnostics; the functioning of solar cells, infrared detectors, and light emitting diodes (LEDs); slowing down fission neutrons toward achieving a nuclear chain reaction; jet propulsion of a rocket and an octopus; principles of magnetic resonance imaging and principles standing behind fission and fusion nuclear reactions; and more.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783111343457
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-11-134345-7
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- Erscheinungstermin: 29.01.2024
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2024
- Serie: De Gruyter graduate
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 251 g
- Seiten: 124
- Format (B x H): 170 x 240 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt