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50 physics ideas you really need to know / Joanne Baker

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Quercus , 2007.Description: 208 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781847241481
Other title:
  • Fifty physics ideas you really need to know
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530
LOC classification:
  • QC 24.5 B167f 2007
Contents:
Matter in motion -- Beneath the waves -- Quantum conundrums -- Splitting atoms -- Space and time.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) QC 24.5 B167f 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000116995

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.

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