Lev Okun: 2 books
ABC of Physics
A Very Brief Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Translated from Russian by Vitaly Kisin
This little book concentrates on the foundations of modern physics (its "ABC's") and its most fundamental constants: c — the velocity of light and ℏ — the quantum of action.
First of all, the book is addressed to professional physicists,...
Leptons and Quarks
(Special Edition Commemorating the Discovery of the Higgs Boson)
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The book “Leptons and Quarks” was first published in the early 1980s, when the program of the experimental search for the intermediate bosons W and Z and Higgs boson H was formulated. The aim and scope of the present extended edition of the book, written after the experimental discovery of the...