Elementary Particle Physics for Enthusiasts Yoshiki Teramoto Books
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This introductory book, intended for general audiences, covers a broad range of subjects in the elementary particle physics gauge theory, quark model, parton model, quantum chromodynamics, Weinberg-Salam theory, CP-violation, spontaneous symmetry breaking, Higgs mechanism, Higgs particle, etc. Those subjects are explained, plainly and mostly without using equations.
Revisions Apr 22, 2016. In the ch.2, a mistake was fixed at calculating the change of mass by lifting the mass. Several translation errors to English from Japanese were fixed.
Elementary Particle Physics for Enthusiasts Yoshiki Teramoto Books
As a Ph.D. physicist who has not specialized in particle physics, I had high hopes for this book. I have read numbers of semi-popular books on the subject in the hope of getting some painless enlightenment. But was disappointed by this book. The physics is sometimes wrong, obtuse, or just poorly explained. I was alerted to this early on by his incorrect comments on E = mc^2: energy and mass are the "same" (no, they are not, or we wouldn't designate them by different words) and lifting an object in Earth's gravity field increases the object's mass (no, it increases the mass of the Earth-object system, while reducing the mass of the person who did the lifting.)A small but annoying feature is the occasionally non-idiomatic English. For example, the author spells "vice versa" as "vise verse," and uses terms such as "commutable" instead of "commutative", and "Pauli's Exclusive Principle" instead of "Pauli's Exclusion Principle." These lapses in English are minor in themselves, but undermine confidence in the author's scholarship. This book was self-published by Dr. Teramoto, and he obviously did not have have it vetted for English and for physics by any competent person. Not a wise choice.
A few chapters are better than others, and may merit 3 or even 3.5 stars. For example, I liked his chapter 6 on classification of particles. But as a rule, the analogies he offers are either "good but not original," or "original but not good." For an example of the latter, he proposes to explain/motivate the famous uncertainty relation of Heisenberg by the oscillation of particles. A dubious idea. For the most part, I think you won't learn anything new from this book, because if you don't already understand a thing, the author's explanations will make very little sense.
Dr. Teramoto, your book shows promise. You should have enough confidence in your creation to have it reviewed and corrected by other particle physicists, and get the English polished by a native speaker.
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Elementary Particle Physics for Enthusiasts Yoshiki Teramoto Books Reviews
Many many better books on the subject.
Very clear brief explanation of particle physics -has somewhat different looks than other author
So far it's a three. Grammar needs editing. The constant 'c' is wrong. If that's incorrect, the all the math is suspect.
I like this book a lot, but it's difficult for me to make it through the harder derivations since I've been out of school for so long.
Great basic book on particle physics and subatomic particles. A truly strange world!
Unfathomably horrible grammar and spelling. Such poorly articulated concepts that lead readers to draw inaccurate conclusions. I was annoyed at how much I had to focus on such simple concepts due to the poor English. After entering chapter 2, it read "[Energy] is equivalent to [mass]." I threw that damn book across the room and wrote this review. Supposedly my book was printed 1 day after I ordered it. I was lead astray when I saw published in the U.S.
I'm battling with weather or not 7 bucks is a reason to be upset... I don't know yet.
Perhaps I'll try to finish it.
2 stars for effort
I think this book represents a breakthrough for presenting introductory advanced physics topics-there are a lot of laymen's books out there and a lot of advanced ones, but it is rare to find intermediate books in this category. Too many laymen's books try to describe advanced physics with no mathematics. That is about like trying to explain how to rebuild an engine with sign language. And at the other extreme a lot of formal books on this topic are an expose of the author's mathematical gymnastics with total disregard to explaining the physics.
It is refreshing that Teramoto has presented particle physics with the mathematics while keeping it tractable to a large audience that has acquired a basic undergraduate understanding of maths. I wish more authors would take his example.
As others have pointed out, the English is somewhat compromised in this book but we are fortunate that the world still holds English as a language of scientific communications and that authors like Teramoto are still willing too work hard to learn English and write books and journal articles in English-my hat goes off to Teramoto.
Again there are a few misrepresentations in this book (e.g. the energy/mass comment) that might evade a casual reader but these can be corrected in a new edition. The author, in maintaining brevity has omitted some explanations and this is exusable. Perhaps some areas could merit a few more pages however.
I hope that Teramoto will continue to publish this book, and maybe make a few corrections. I belive he will have no problem finding help correcting the grammar--it is worth the effort for this is a great little book. I am ordering copies for my colleagues here at the lab and they will love it!
As a Ph.D. physicist who has not specialized in particle physics, I had high hopes for this book. I have read numbers of semi-popular books on the subject in the hope of getting some painless enlightenment. But was disappointed by this book. The physics is sometimes wrong, obtuse, or just poorly explained. I was alerted to this early on by his incorrect comments on E = mc^2 energy and mass are the "same" (no, they are not, or we wouldn't designate them by different words) and lifting an object in Earth's gravity field increases the object's mass (no, it increases the mass of the Earth-object system, while reducing the mass of the person who did the lifting.)
A small but annoying feature is the occasionally non-idiomatic English. For example, the author spells "vice versa" as "vise verse," and uses terms such as "commutable" instead of "commutative", and "Pauli's Exclusive Principle" instead of "Pauli's Exclusion Principle." These lapses in English are minor in themselves, but undermine confidence in the author's scholarship. This book was self-published by Dr. Teramoto, and he obviously did not have have it vetted for English and for physics by any competent person. Not a wise choice.
A few chapters are better than others, and may merit 3 or even 3.5 stars. For example, I liked his chapter 6 on classification of particles. But as a rule, the analogies he offers are either "good but not original," or "original but not good." For an example of the latter, he proposes to explain/motivate the famous uncertainty relation of Heisenberg by the oscillation of particles. A dubious idea. For the most part, I think you won't learn anything new from this book, because if you don't already understand a thing, the author's explanations will make very little sense.
Dr. Teramoto, your book shows promise. You should have enough confidence in your creation to have it reviewed and corrected by other particle physicists, and get the English polished by a native speaker.
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