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This excellent book on particle physics starts essentially from elementary physics and ends up at the standard particle model. (If backed up by suitable lectures it could be used as a very good, high-level undergraduate textbook.) There is no discussion of experiments except in principle, given in an appendix, and some topics are covered in a very condensed manner. This is unavoidable in a book of this length, but the corresponding advantage is that of a uniform treatment. Thirty-nine problems at various levels of difficulty are given with solutions. The second part of the book is devoted to a treatment of the combination of elementary particles to produce hadrons. The book is well illustrated by line drawings and tables, some showing original data. To provide a very good overview, readers may supplement this book with works on theory, experimental methods, and mathematical physics. Undergraduate through professional. K. W. Ogilvie; NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
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