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Title

Physics over easy : breakfasts with Beth and physics / Leonid V. Azároff.

Author

Azároff, Leonid V.

Publication

New Jersey : World Scientific, c2010.

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Description

xii, 288 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.

Subject

Physics > Popular works

Genre/Form

Popular works

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : What keeps us going? Physicists, and other people -- ch. 1. Breakfast of hard-boiled eggs with inertia. How it all began - with rolling balls -- ch. 2. Breakfast of eggs bene-bricked. What keeps the ball rolling? -- ch. 3. Breakfast of apple-gravity pancakes. Why does an apple fall from a tree? -- ch. 4. Breakfast of cereal and calories. But it takes energy to keep moving -- ch. 5. Breakfast of hot cakes with energy how hot is it? Putting heat to work -- ch. 6. Breakfast of french toast. First law : You can't win second law : Nor can you break even -- ch. 7. Breakfast of cold cuts. Go fly a kite! Storing electricity -- ch. 8. Breakfast of blueberry muffins. Electricity in matter a.c./d.c. -- ch. 9. Breakfast of apple fritters and love. Magnetic forces. Magnetic fields. What Maxwell wrought -- ch. 10. Breakfast of eggs and crisp bacon. Making waves. What waves can do --^ ch. 11. Breakfast of oat meal with light cream. What is light? How and what we see. It's a colorful world! -- ch. 12. Breakfast of lox and bagels. What's the speed of light? Is it really relative? The paradoxes of relativity and black holes -- ch. 13. Breakfast of farina. Does anyone believe in quanta? What about atoms? -- ch. 14. Breakfast of Danish pastry. What's a wave function? Born and Heisenberg have the answer -- ch. 15. Breakfast of waffles. Atoms can be fun. What attracts atoms to each other? -- ch. 16. Breakfast of O.J., donuts, and coffee. Surrounded by fluids. We depend on solids -- ch. 17. Breakfast of rice krispies. Who's afraid of radioactivity? What's inside the nucleus? For better or for worse - nuclear energy. Our nuclear legacy -- ch. 18. Breakfast of corn fritters. A mess of particles. What, more conservation laws? Quarks and more quarks. The GUTS of physics --^ ch. 19. Dinner at home. Einstein centennial. A promising nanotechnology. Quantum entanglement. Quantum computers -- ch. 20. Lunch at the beach. Bose-Einstein condensates -- ch. 21. Lunch at Venetian Bay. Our energy problems. Energy wastes. The good news about nukes -- ch. 22. Breakfast at the beach. How it all began. Cosmic microwave background. Big bang. Inflationary universe. Probing the cosmic microwave background -- ch. 23. Dinner under the stars. The stars in heaven. Red giants and white dwarfs -- ch. 24. After dinner at home. Supernovae and neutron stars. Black holes. Supernovae as standard candles.

ISBN

• 9789814295444 (hbk.)
• 9814295442 (hbk.)
• 9789814295451 (pbk.)
• 9814295450 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011288013

OCLC

• 643733346
• SCSB-10434833

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library