| Description |
208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Series |
50-- ideas you should know |
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50-- ideas you should know
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| Contents |
Matter in motion. Mach's principle ; Newton's laws of motion ; Kepler's laws ; Newton's law of gravitation ; Conservation of energy ; Simple harmonic motion ; Hooke's law ; Ideal gas law ; Second law of thermodynamics ; Absolute zero ; Brownian motion ; Chaos theory ; Bernoulli equation -- Beneath the waves. Newton's theory of colour ; Huygen's principle ; Snell's law ; Bragg's law ; Fraunhofer diffraction ; Doppler effect ; Ohm's law ; Fleming's right hand rule ; Maxwell's equations -- Quantum conundrums. Planck's law ; Photoelectric effect ; Schrödinger's wave equation ; Heisenberg's uncertainty principle ; Copenhagen interpretation ; Schrödinger's cat ; The EPR paradox ; Pauli's exclusion principle ; Superconductivity -- Splitting atoms. Rutherford's atom ; Antimatter ; Nuclear fission ; Nuclear fusion ; Standard model ; Feynman diagrams ; The God particle ; String theory -- Space and time. Special relativity ; General relativity ; Black holes ; Olbers' paradox ; Hubble's law ; The Big Bang ; Cosmic inflation ; Dark matter ; Cosmological constant ; Fermi paradox ; Anthropic principle |
| Summary |
"In 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know author Joanne Baker describes, in a sequence of 50 clear and concise essays, the discovery, significance and functioning of the laws, principles, and theories that govern the workings of our physical universe"--Page 2 of cover |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Physics -- Miscellanea.
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Physics -- Popular works.
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Physics.
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| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea.
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| ISBN |
1847240070 |
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1847241484 |
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184866706X |
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9781847240071 |
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9781847241481 |
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9781848667068 |
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