Saturday Morning Physics

Lecture 1: Particles and Forces
Saturday Morning Physics, 5 January 2002
Chris Quigg

Suggested Reading

Primo Levi, The Periodic Table, translated by Raymond Rosenthal (Schocken Books, New York, 1986). An industrial chemist before he became a great writer, Primo Levi knows the elements on personal terms.
George L. Trigg, Crucial Experiments in Modern Physics (Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1971). This slender (141-page) book contains clear, short descriptions of the evidence that shaped some of the central ideas in "modern" physics up to about 1930.
If you can't find this one in a library, look for George L. Trigg, Landmark Experiments in Twentieth-Century Physics (Dover Publications, New York, 1995).

Some interesting internet resources:

The Standard Model of Fundamental Particles and Interactions, from the Contemporary Physics Education Project.
A Little Tour in Particle Physics … Pointers to the great laboratories, some timely experiments, and an extended reading list.
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy from IBM's Almaden Laboratory, source of the images shown in the lecture.
The Periodic Table, from Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The Visual Periodic Table

Chris Quigg. 7 December 2001.