Janez Strnad

Janez Strnad (born March 4, 1934) is a Slovene physicist and populariser of natural science.

Selected works

University textbooks

• Janez Strnad, Atlas klasične in moderne fizike (Atlas of classical and modern physics), translation and adaptation of Hans Breuer, dtv-Atlas zur Physik, (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, München 1987, 1988)), DZS, Ljubljana 1993, pp 400, {{COBISS|ID=25693056}}.
• Janez Strnad, Fizika, 1. del, Mehanika, Toplota (Physics, 1st part, Mechanics, Heat), (DZS, Ljubljana 1977, pp 1 - 284.
• Janez Strnad, Fizika, 2. del, Elektrika, Optika (Physics, 2nd part, Electricity, Optics), (DZS, Ljubljana 1978, pp 285 - 564).
• Janez Strnad, Fizika, 3. del, Posebna teorija relativnosti, Atomi (Physics, 3rd part, Special Theory of relativity, Atoms), (DZS, Ljubljana 1980, pp 320).
• Janez Strnad, Fizika, 4. del, Molekule, kristali, jedra, delci (Physics, 4th part, Molecules, Crystals, Nuclei, Particles), (DZS, Ljubljana 1982, pp 283).
• Janez Strnad, Mladen Gros, Marjan Hribar, Alojz Kodre, Naloge iz fizike (Exercises from Physics), (DMFA SRS, Ljubljana 1981, pp 108).

Selected chapters from physics and postgraduate seminars

• Janez Strnad, Fazna, skupinska, signalna hitrost (Phase, Group, Signal Velocity), (DMFA SRS, Ljubljana 1975, pp 31).
• Janez Strnad, Poskusi v posebni in splošni teoriji relativnosti (Experiments in Special and General Theory of Relativity), (DMFA SRS, Ljubljana 1977, pp 44).
• Janez Strnad, Na pot v kvantno elektrodinamiko (On the way to the Quantum Electrodynamics), (DMFA SRS, Ljubljana 1986, pp 176).
• Janez Strnad, Na pot k Schwarzschildu (On the way to Schwarzschild), (DMFA S, Ljubljana 1991, pp 52).
• Janez Strnad, Homogeno gravitacijsko polje: med posebno in splošno teorijo relativnosti (Homogeneous Gravitational Field: Between Special and General Theory of relativity), (DMFA S, Ljubljana 1994, pp 44).
• Janez Strnad, Začetki kvantne statistične mehanike (The Beginnings of Quantum Statistical Mechanics), (DMFA S, Ljubljana 1997, pp 31).
• Janez Strnad, Odkritje razcepa (Discovery of the split), (DMFA S, Ljubljana 2000, pp 39).

Books

• Janez Strnad, Jožef Stefan, Ob stopetdesetletnici rojstva (Jožef Stefan, By his 150th anniversary of birth), (DMFA SRS, Ljubljana 1985).
• Janez Strnad, Prapok Prasnov požene v dir (Primordial Bang drives Primordial Substance into a Gallop), (DZS, Ljubljana 1988, pp 81).
• Janez Strnad, Zgodbe iz fizike (Stories from Physics), (Slovenska matica, Ljubljana 1990).
• Janez Strnad, Fiziki 1 (Physicists 1), (Mihelač in Nešović, Ljubljana 1995, pp 159).
• Janez Strnad, Razvoj fizike (The Development of Physics), (DZS Ljubljana 1996, pp 400).
• Janez Strnad, Fiziki 2 (Physicists 2), (Modrijan, Ljubljana 1999, pp 199).
• Janez Strnad, Fiziki 3 (Physicists 3), (Modrijan, Ljubljana 2000, pp 227).
• Janez Strnad, Svet merjenj: o razvoju fizike in merjenju osnovnih fizikalnih količin (The World of Measurements: About the Development of Physics and Measuring of Fundamental Physical Quantities), (DZS, Ljubljana 2001, pp 139).
• Janez Strnad, Sto let fizike: od 1900 do 2000 (A Hundred Years of Physics: from 1900 to 2000), (DMFA S, Ljubljana 2001, pp 233).

Scientific Articles

• Janez Strnad, Sto let Stefanovega zakona (Hundred years of Stefan's law), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 26 (1979) 3).
• Janez Strnad, A. Vengar, Stefanova meritev toplotne prevodnosti zraka (Stefan's measurements of the thermal conductivity of air), (European Journal of Physics, 1984).
• Janez Strnad, Kako je Jožef Stefan odkril zakon o sevanju (How Jožef Stefan discovered the law of radiation), (Zbornik za zgodovino naravoslovja in tehnike 8, Ljubljana 1985).
• Janez Strnad, Stefanov tok (Stefan's current), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 32 (1985).
• Janez Strnad, Stefanova naloga (Stefan's task), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 34 (1987).
• Janez Strnad, Stefanove elektodinamične enačbe (Stefan's equations of electrodynamics), (European Journal of Physics, 1989).
• Janez Strnad, Ernst Mach kot fizik (Ernst Mach as physicist), (Zbornik za zgodovino naravoslovja in tehnike 10, Ljubljana 1989).
• Janez Strnad, Dvigajoči se mehurčki (Rising bubbles), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 39 (1992) 4, pp 85 - 89).
• Janez Strnad, Oslabitev Brownovega gibanja (Squeezing Brownian motion), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 39 (1992) 2, pp 49 - 54).
• Janez Strnad, Opazovanje in teorija (Observation and theory), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 39 (1992) 5, pp 141 - 150).
• Janez Strnad, J. Stefana 'Longitudinalna nihanja palic' (J. Stefan's 'Longitudal oscillations of rods' ), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 40 (1993) 1, pp 17 - 19).
• Janez Strnad, Ali mora znati, kdor uči? (Should he who teaches know?), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 40 (1993) 1, pp 23 - 31).
• Janez Strnad, Superprevodnost (Superconductivity), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 40 (1993) 4, pp 110 - 120).
• Janez Strnad, Nenavadni interferenčni poskusi I. Interferenčni poskus s sevanjema v nasprotnih smereh (Unusual interference experiments I. Interference experiment with radiations in opposite directions), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 40 (1993) 5, pp 135 - 136).
• Janez Strnad, Supertekočnost (Superfluidity), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 40 (1993) 6, pp 183 - 191).
• Janez Strnad, Fizika iz Karlsruheja: O novostih v poučevanju fizike (The Karlsruhe physics course: On new approaches in physics teaching), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 41 (1994) 4, pp 122 - 128).
• Janez Strnad, Nenavadni interferenčni poskusi I. Youngov poskus z ionoma (Unusual interference experiments I. Young's experiment with two ions), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 41 (1994) 5, pp 119 - 153).
• Janez Strnad, Nenavadni interferenčni poskusi, Interferenčni poskus z laserjema (Unusual interference experiments, Interference experiment with two lasers), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 41 (1994) 6, pp 187 - 190) (PACS 42.50.-p.)
• Janez Strnad, Premo centralno gibanje J. Vege (J. Vega's linear central motion), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 47 (2000) 1, pp 20 - 26). (PACS 01.65.+g, 45.40Gj)
• Janez Strnad, Nenavadni interferenčni poskusi, Interferenčni poskus z molekulami C₆₀ (Unusual interference experiments, An interference experiment with C₆₀ molecules), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 47 (2000) 2, pp 53 - 56) (PACS 33.80.-b.)
• Janez Strnad, Precesija enakonočij (The precession of equinoxes), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 47 (2000) 4, pp 120 - 125). (PACS 01.65.+g)
• Janez Strnad, Osnovne fizikalne konstante 1998 (Fundamental physical constants 1998), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 47 (2000) 5, pp 177 - 179). (PACS 06.20.Jr)
• Janez Strnad, Rubinowicz v Ljubljani (Rubinowics in Ljubljana), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 47 (2000) 6, pp 144 - 146). (PACS 01.60.+g)
• Janez Strnad, O gravitacijski konstanti (On the Newtonian gravitational constant), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 48 (2001) 1, pp 19 - 25). (PACS 04.80.-y)
• Janez Strnad, Med dvema ognjema? (Between two fires?), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 48 (2001) 1, pp 92 - 94). (PACS 06.20.Fn)
• Janez Strnad, Sevalni tlak in P. N. Lebedev (Radiation Pressure and P. N. Lebedev), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 48 (2001) 1, pp 148 - 153). (PACS 01.65.+g, 45.40Gj)
• Janez Strnad, Prožni trak kot model vesolja (The elastic ribbon as a model universe), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 49 (2002) 1, pp 21 - 27). (PACS 98.80.-k)
• Janez Strnad, Stefanova sila (Stefan's force), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 49 (2002) 2, pp 58 - 61). (PACS 01.65.+g, 47.15.-x)
• Janez Strnad, Interferenca elektronov na svetlobi (Interference of electrons on light), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 49 (2002) 5, pp 148 - 150). (PACS 33.80.-b)
• Janez Strnad, Vega o obliki Zemlje (Vega on the form of the Earth), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 50 (2003) 1, pp 27 - III). (PACS 01.65.+g, 45.40Gj)
• Janez Strnad, O elektronih v atomu (On electrons in atom), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 50 (2003) 3, pp 82 - 85). (PACS 01.40.Ej)
• Janez Strnad, Kako sem pisal učbenik za fiziko (How I wrote a physics textbook), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 50 (2003) 5, pp 157 - 160). (PACS 01.40.Gm)
• Janez Strnad, Bose-Einsteinova kondenzacija cezija (Bose-Einstein condensation of cesium), (Obzornik mat, fiz. 50 (2003) 6, pp 184 - 191). (PACS 03.75.Fi)

Popular Arcticles

• Janez Strnad, Jožef Stefan, Ob stopetdesetletnici rojstva (Jožef Stefan, By his 150th anniversary of birth), (Presek (1985) 5).
• Janez Strnad, Stogodišnjica Stefanovega zakona (Hundred years of Stefan's law), (Dijalektika, Belgrade 1979 3-4).
• Janez Strnad, Svetlobni mlinček (Light grinder), (Presek 24 (1996/1997) 130).
• Janez Strnad, Natančnejši podatki o vesolju (More accurate data about the Universe), (Delo, Znanost/Scientia, April 7, 2003 pp 3)

Colloquiums

• Janez Strnad, Bose-Einsteinova kondenzacija alkalijskih atomov (Bose-Einstein's condensation of alkaline atoms), (FMF, IJS, Ljubljana November 5, 2001).
• Janez Strnad, Nobelova nagrada za fiziko 2000 (Nobel prize for physics 2000), (FMF, IJS, Ljubljana November 6, 2000).
• Janez Strnad, Alojz Kodre, Profesor Kuščer - In Memoriam (In memory of professor Kuščer), (FMF, IJS, Ljubljana February 2, 2000).