The physics book : from the big bang to quantum resurrection, 250 milestones in the history of physics
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- ISBN: 9781402790997 (ebook)
- ISBN: 1402778619 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781402778612 (alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
527 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm
print - Publisher: New York : Sterling Pub., ©2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1912. Cepheid variables measure the universe -- 1912. Bragg's law of crystal diffraction -- 1913. Bohr atom -- 1913. Millikan oil drop experiment -- 1915. General theory of relativity -- 1919. String theory -- 1921. Einstein as inspiration -- 1922. Stern-Gerlach experiment -- 1923. Neon signs -- 1923. Compton effect -- 1924. De Broglie relation -- 1925. Pauli exclusion principle -- 1926. Schrödinger's wave equation -- 1927. Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- 1927. Complementarity principle -- 1927. Hypersonic whipcracking -- 1928. Dirac equation -- 1928. Quantum tunneling -- 1929. Hubble's law of cosmic expansion -- 1929. Cyclotron -- 1931. White dwarfs and Chandrasekhar limit -- 1931. Jacob's ladder -- 1932. Neutron -- 1932. Antimatter -- 1933. Dark matter -- 1933. Neutron stars -- 1934. Cherenkov radiation -- 1934. Sonoluminescence -- 1935. EPR paradox -- 1935. Schrödinger's cat -- 1937. Superfluids -- 1938. Nuclear magnetic resonance -- 1942. Energy from the nucleus -- 1943. Silly putty -- 1945. Drinking bird -- 1945. Little boy atomic bomb -- 1946. Stellar nucleosynthesis -- 1947. Transistor -- 1947. Sonic booms -- 1947. Hologram -- 1948. Quantum electrodynamics -- 1948. Tensegrity -- 1948. Casimir effect -- 1949. Time travel -- 1949. Radiocarbon dating -- 1940. Fermi paradox -- 1954. Solar cells -- 1955. Leaning tower of lire -- 1955. Seeing the single atom -- 1955. Atomic clocks -- 1956. Parallel universes -- 1956. Neutrinos -- 1956. Tokamak -- 1958. Integrated circuit -- 1959. Dark side of the moon -- 1960. Dyson sphere -- 1960. Laser -- 1960. Terminal velocity -- 1961. Anthropic principle -- 1961. Standard model -- 1962. Electromagnetic pulse -- 1963. Chaos theory -- 1963. Quasars -- 1963. Lava lamp -- 1964. The God particle -- 1964. Quarks -- 1964. CP violation -- 1964. Bell's theorem -- 1965. Super ball -- 1965. Cosmic microwave background -- 1967. Gamma-ray bursts -- 1967. Living in a simulation -- 1967. Tachyons -- 1967. Newton's cradle -- 1967. Metamaterials -- 1969. Unilluminable rooms -- 1971. Supersymmetry -- 1980. Cosmic inflation -- 1981. Quantum computers -- 1982. Quasicrystals -- 1984. Theory of everything -- 1985. Buckyballs -- 1987. Quantum immortality -- 1987. Self-organized criticality -- 1988. Wormhole time machine -- 1990. Hubble telescope -- 1992. Chronology protection conjecture -- 1993. Quantum teleportation -- 1993. Stephen Hawking on Star trek -- 1995. Bose-Einstein condensate -- 1998. Dark energy -- 1999. Randall-Sundrum branes -- 1999. Fastest tornado speed -- 2007. HAARP -- 2008. Blackest black -- 2009. Large hHadron collider -- Closing the curtain. 36 billion. Cosmological big rip -- 100 billion. Cosmic isolation -- 100 trillion. Universe fades -->100 trillion. Quantum resurrection. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | QC 7 .P53 2011 | 30775305472939 | General Collection | Available | - |
Summary:
Following the hugely successful The Science Book and The Math Book comes a richly illustrated chronology of physics, containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon, the book's timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time of "quantum resurrection." Like the previous titles in this series, The Physics Book helps readers gain an understanding of major concepts without getting bogged down in complex details. --- Book Description.
Containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries, this book explores such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon. The timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time of quantum resurrection.
Containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries, this book explores such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon. The timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time of quantum resurrection.