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50 physics ideas you really need to know / Joanne Baker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Quercus, 2007.Description: 1 vol. (208 p.) : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781847240071
  • 9781847241481
  • 1847240070
  • 1847241484
Other title:
  • Fifty physics ideas you really need to know
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 530 22
LOC classification:
  • QC24.5 B35 2007
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.

Includes index.

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.

"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.

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