The physics book : from the big bang to quantum resurrection, 250 milestones in the history of physics
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- ISBN: 9781402778612 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1402778619 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781402790997 (ebook)
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527 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm - Publisher: New York : Sterling Pub., ©2011.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Setting the stage. 13.7 billion B.C. Big bang -- 3 billion B.C. Black diamonds -- 2 billion B.C. Prehistoric nuclear reactor -- The discoveries. 30,000 B.C. Atlatl -- 20,000 B.C. Boomerang -- 3000 B.C. Sundial -- 2500 B.C. Truss -- 1850 B.C. Arch -- 1000 B.C. Olmec compass -- 341 B.C. Crossbow -- 250 B.C. Baghdad battery -- 250 B.C. Siphon -- 250 B.C. Archimedes' principal of buoyancy -- 250 B.C. Archimedean screw -- 240 B.C. Eratosthenes measures the earth -- 230 B.C. Pulley -- 212 B.C. Archimedes' burning mirrors -- 125 B.C. Antikythera mechanism -- 50. Hero's jet engine -- 50. Gears -- 78. St. Elmo's fire -- 1132. Cannon -- 1150. Perpetual motion machines -- 1200. Trebuchet -- 1304. Explaining the rainbow -- 1338. Hourglass -- 1543. Sun-centered universe -- 1596. Mysterium Cosmographicum -- 1600. De Magnete -- 1608. Telescope -- 1609. Kepler's laws of planetary motion -- 1610. Discovery of Saturn's rings -- 1611. Kepler's "Six-cornered Snowflake" -- 1620. Triboluminescence -- 1621. Snell's law of refraction -- 1621. Aurora borealis -- 1638. Acceleration of falling objects -- 1643. Barometer -- 1644. Conservation of momentum -- 1660. Hooke's law of elasticity -- 1660. Von Guericke's electrostatic generator -- 1662. Boyle's gas law -- 1665. Micrographia -- 1669. Amontons' friction -- 1672. Measuring the solar system -- 1672. Newton's prism -- 1673. Tautochrone ramp -- 1687. Newton's laws of motion and gravitation -- 1687. Newton as inspiration -- 1711. Tuning fork -- 1728. Escape velocity -- 1738. Bernoulli's law of fluid dynamics -- 1744. Leyden jar -- 1752. Ben Franklin's kite -- 1761. Black drop effect -- 1766. Bode's law of planetary distances -- 1777. Lischtenberg figures -- 1779. Black eye galaxy -- 1783. Black holes -- 1785. Coulomb's law of electrostatics -- 1787. Charles' gas law -- 1796. Nebular hypothesis -- 1798. Cavendish weighs the earth -- 1800. Battery -- 1801. Wave nature of light -- 1803. Henry's gas law -- 1807. Fourier analysis -- 1808. Atomic theory -- 1811. Avogadro's gas law -- 1814. Fraunhofer lines -- 1814. Laplace's demon -- 1815. Brewster's optics -- 1816. Stethoscope -- 1822. Fourier's law of heat conduction -- 1823. Olbers' paradox -- 1824. Greenhouse effect -- 1824. Carnot engine -- 1825. Ampère's law of electromagnetism -- 1826. Rogue waves -- 1827. Ohm's law of electricity -- 1827. Brownian motion -- 1829. Graham's law of effusion -- 1831. Faraday's laws of induction -- 1834. Soliton -- 1835. Gauss and the magnetic monopole -- 1838. Stellar parallax -- 1839. Fuel cell -- 1840. Poiseuille's law of fluid flow -- 1840. Joule's law of electric heating -- 1841. Anniversary clock -- 1841. Fiber optics -- 1842. Doppler effect -- 1843. Conservation of energy -- 1844. I-beams -- 1845. Kirchhoff's circuit laws -- 1846. Discovery of Neptune -- 1850. Second law of thermodynamics -- 1850. Ice slipperiness -- 1851. Foucault's pendulum -- 1851. Stokes' law of viscosity -- 1852. Gyroscope -- 1852. Stokes' fluorescence -- 1857. Buys-Ballot's weather law -- 1859. Kinetic theory -- 1861. Maxwell's equations -- 1864. Electromagnetic spectrum -- 1866. Surface tension -- 1866. Dynamite -- 1867. Maxwell's demon -- 1868. Discovery of helium -- 1870. Baseball curveball -- 1871. Rayleigh scattering -- 1873. Crookes radiometer -- 1875. Boltzmann's entropy equation -- 1878. Incandescent light bulb -- 1879. Plasma -- 1879. Hall effect -- 1880. Piezoelectric effect -- 1880. War tubas -- 1882. Galvanometer -- 1882. Green flash -- 1887. Michelson-Morley experiment -- 1889. Birth of the kilogram -- 1889. Birth of the meter -- 1890. Eötvös' gravitational gradiometry -- 1891. Tesla coil -- 1892. Thermos -- 1895. X-rays -- 1895. Curie's magnetism law -- 1896. Radioactivity -- 1897. Electron -- 1898. Mass spectrometer -- 1900. Blackbody radiation law -- 1901. Clothoid loop -- 1903. Black light -- 1903. Tsiolkovsky rocket equation -- 1904. Lorentz transformation -- 1905. Special theory of relativity -- 1905. E=mc² -- 1905. Photoelectric effect -- 1905. Golf ball dimples -- 1905. Third law of thermodynamics -- 1906. Vacuum tube -- 1908. Geiger counter -- 1909. Bremsstrahlung -- 1910. Cosmic rays -- 1911. Superconductivity -- 1911. Atomic nucleus -- 1911. Kármán vortex street -- 1911. Wilson cloud chamber. |
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Kirtland Community College Library | QC 7 .P53 2011 | 30775305472939 | General Collection | Available | - |