Tour of the Subatomic Zoo A Guide to Particle Physics

"A great little book, and if every physics textbook were like this, physics classrooms would be crowded". -- Scitech Book News"A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo fills a vast gap in the literature.... With hardly a mathematical formula, Ms. Schwarz clearly explains the language and much of the substance of elementary particle physics -- the search for the ultimate building blocks of matter and the rules by which they combine". -- Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Laureate, Harvard UniversityThis popular book introduces the ideas, terminology, and techniques of high-energy physics. Views of matter from the atom down to the quark are discussed historically, in language that is accessible to readers who have no physics background. This Second Edition has been expanded to reflect recent developments in particle physics, including the latest particle accelerators and the discovery of the top quark. The author has also added a list of World Wide Web sites where the reader can find more information on particle physics.Schwarz, Cindy is the author of 'Tour of the Subatomic Zoo A Guide to Particle Physics' with ISBN 9780883189542 and ISBN 0883189542.