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From electromagnetism to dark matter, this eye-catching hardback guide explores the fascinating world of physics through its 50 essential ideas, brought to life with full-colour graphics, illuminating diagrams, and engaging feature boxes. Physics forms the basis of our understanding of the fundamental nature of the universe, from the particles that make up matter to the forces that govern their interactions. In this beautifully illustrated book, Robert Snedden introduces you to the fascinating world of physics and its greatest practitioners. Ranging from gravity to thermodynamics to quantum physics and relativity and featuring ideas from such esteemed physicists as Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell and Albert Einstein, this essential guide will bring you up to speed on the core themes and theories of this great subject. ABOUT THE SERIES: The 50 Essential Ideas series brings together entertaining, highly visual guides to different disciplines, from philosophy to physics. It explores the subject's 50 greatest ideas, giving readers an accessible overview of its defining theories and breakthroughs.

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Author:   Robert Snedden (Author)
Publisher:   Arcturus Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Arcturus
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.80cm
Weight:   0.760kg
ISBN:  

9781398824812

ISBN 10:   139882481
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   30 November 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Made to measure - physics, maths and measurement 1: The fact of the matter - what is everything made of? 2: Persistence of motion - momentum and inertia 3: It's just rocket science - action and reaction, Newton's mechanics 4: Free falling - the laws of gravity 5: Newton's bucket - spinning in absolute space 6: There and back again - harmonic motion 7: Neither created nor destroyed - the nature of energy 8: Going with the flow - fluid mechanics 9: Getting warmer - thermal radiation 10: Heat and work - the first law of thermodynamics 11: Spring in the air - the gas laws 12: The end of all things - time's arrow and the second law of thermodynamics 13: Molecules in motion - statistical mechanics and kinetic theory 14: Force of attraction - magnetism 15: A flash of lightning - electric charge 16: Current events - electrical energy, current and resistance 17: Two become one - electromagnetism, motors and generators 18: Lines of force - force fields 19: The waves we cannot see - electromagnetic waves and Maxwell's equations 20: Perfect harmony - the physics of sound 21: Chasing rainbows - light, reflected, refracted and focussed 22: Interfering with Isaac - light is a wave - Young's double slit and Fresnel's interference 23: Light from the atom - fluorescence and spectral emissions 24: Baffling blackbodies - Planck's quanta and the photoelectric effect 25: How can it be like that? - unravelling the nature of light, wave/particle duality 26: Leaps and bounds - quantum numbers, the exclusion principle and matrix mechanics 27: Here, there and everywhere - Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Schrodinger's cat and the many worlds theory 28: Spooky action - quantum entanglement and the EPR paradox 29: QED - quantum field theory and force carriers 30: Matter transformed - discovering radioactivity 31: Atomic building bricks - the structure of the atom 32: Muster Mark's quarks -the standard model and the particle zoo 33: Holding it all together - the fundamental forces that bind atoms 34: Atoms undone - nuclear bombs and power 35: Annihilating opposites - antimatter 36: Completing the picture - the Higg's boson 37: It's not the same for everyone - relativity from Galileo to Einstein 38: Shining a light - the absolute nature of light speed 39: Frames of reference - Einstein's special relativity theory 40: No space, no time - mapping the universe on curving spacetime; the block universe 41: Einstein's gravity - the general theory of relativity 42: The end of spacetime - the physics of black holes 43: A subtle cataclysm - detecting gravitational waves 44: Star power - nuclear fusion and E=mc2 45: Where it begins - big bang theory 46: The grand scale - physics and the shape of the universe 47: Sight unseen - dark matter 48: Dancing in the dark - dark energy 49: Across the great divide - reconciling general relativity and quantum mechanics, loop quantum gravity 50: World on a string - supersymmetry, strings and superstrings

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Robert Snedden has worked in publishing for more than forty years as an editor and writer. His writing ranges across diverse topics as medical ethics, habitats, physics and engineering, pharmacogenetics, chemistry and the technology of ancient civilizations. He has written many successful titles such as the Great Breakthroughs series and 15-Minute Einstein, which have been published internationally in many languages.

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