Pollock, Steven.
Summary: Would you like to know how the universe works? The science that has found many of the answers to that profound and age-old question is particle physics, the study of those impossibly tiny particles with unbelievably strange names : bosons and leptons, quarks and neutrinos. Steven Pollock translates the language of the remarkable science that, in only 100 years, has unlocked the secrets of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 539.72 PAR Part 1Call number: 539.72 PAR Part 2
Call number: DVD 539.72 PAR Part 1
Call number: DVD 539.72 PAR Part 2
Pollock, Steven.
Summary: "Physics is the study of the natural world, an experimental science that lies at the heart of all other sciences. It is an effort to make sense of the world at a fundamental level, to unify and describe observable physical phenomena. 'Classical' refers to the pre-20th century developments in physics, a reductionistic, 'realist' approach that continues to be one of the most productive and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 GREPollock, Steven.
Summary: Discover how something as minute as a subatomic particle can be marvelously complex and interesting, yet rendered comprehensible, in this enjoyable presentation by the University of Colorado's award-winning author, researcher, and teacher Steven Pollock.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003