50 physics ideas you really need to know /
Baker, Joanne
50 physics ideas you really need to know / Fifty physics ideas you really need to know Joanne Baker - London : Quercus , 2007. - 208 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
Matter in motion -- Beneath the waves -- Quantum conundrums -- Splitting atoms -- Space and time.
As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Kepler’s law of planetary motion and Newton’s law of gravitation, Joanne Baker unravels the sometimes baffling complexities of modern scientific theory – from Planck’s law to Pauli’s exclusion principle and from Schrondinger’s cat to string theory. The essays are accompanied by a range of useful editorial features, including biographies of iconic physicists, timelines of related ideas, explanatory diagrams and display quotations.
9781847241481
Physics.
Física--Obras de divulgación.
Física cuántica--Obras de divulgación.
Gravitación--Obras de divulgación.
QC 24.5 / B167f 2007
530
50 physics ideas you really need to know / Fifty physics ideas you really need to know Joanne Baker - London : Quercus , 2007. - 208 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
Matter in motion -- Beneath the waves -- Quantum conundrums -- Splitting atoms -- Space and time.
As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Kepler’s law of planetary motion and Newton’s law of gravitation, Joanne Baker unravels the sometimes baffling complexities of modern scientific theory – from Planck’s law to Pauli’s exclusion principle and from Schrondinger’s cat to string theory. The essays are accompanied by a range of useful editorial features, including biographies of iconic physicists, timelines of related ideas, explanatory diagrams and display quotations.
9781847241481
Physics.
Física--Obras de divulgación.
Física cuántica--Obras de divulgación.
Gravitación--Obras de divulgación.
QC 24.5 / B167f 2007
530