For the first time, researchers have measured the lifetime of an excited state in the nucleus of an unstable element. This is a major step toward a nuclear clock that could keep even better time than ...

THE authors say in their preface that these notes have been used for the teaching of practical physics at the Bradford Grammar School during the last three years, and the presumption is that ...

THIS book is based on the syllabus of practical physics for the B.Sc. degree of the University of Calcutta, and contains upwards of seventy experiments of an advanced nature. The author states in his ...