Includes bibliographical references and index.

About questions and answers -- The matter we know : properties and principles -- The relativity of space and time -- The quantum properties of nature, part one -- The quantum properties of nature, part two -- Quantum mechanical reality -- The particles of matter -- The basic interactions -- Spacetime symmetries -- "Internal" symmetries : isotopic spin -- Particle flavors -- A larger flavor symmetry : entrance to the land of quarks -- About gauge theories -- The strong interaction : quantum chromodynamics (QCD) -- The weak interaction : the foot-hills -- The electroweak interaction and the standard model -- Above and beyond -- The role of experiments and experimentalists -- The experimental connection -- Particle accelerators and detectors.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.