Physics Over Easy: Breakfasts With Beth And Physics (2nd Edition)
During a sequence of meals, the author relates the principal features of physics in easy-to-understand conversations with his wife Beth. Beginning with the studies of motion by Galileo and Newton through to the revolutionary theories of relativity and quantum mechanics in the 20th century, all important aspects of electricity, energy, magnetism, gravity and the structure of matter and atoms are explained and illustrated.The second edition similarly recounts the more recent application of these theories to nanoparticles, Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum entanglement and quantum computers. By including accurate measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background and supernovae in near and distant galaxies, an understanding of how the universe was formed in an Inflationary Big Bang is now possible. We've also gained a much better picture of the life of stars and how they may turn into red giants, white dwarfs, black holes, neutron stars or pulsars.
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Physics Over Easy: Breakfasts With Beth And Physics (2nd Edition)
During a sequence of meals, the author relates the principal features of physics in easy-to-understand conversations with his wife Beth. Beginning with the studies of motion by Galileo and Newton through to the revolutionary theories of relativity and quantum mechanics in the 20th century, all important aspects of electricity, energy, magnetism, gravity and the structure of matter and atoms are explained and illustrated.The second edition similarly recounts the more recent application of these theories to nanoparticles, Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum entanglement and quantum computers. By including accurate measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background and supernovae in near and distant galaxies, an understanding of how the universe was formed in an Inflationary Big Bang is now possible. We've also gained a much better picture of the life of stars and how they may turn into red giants, white dwarfs, black holes, neutron stars or pulsars.
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Physics Over Easy: Breakfasts With Beth And Physics (2nd Edition)

Physics Over Easy: Breakfasts With Beth And Physics (2nd Edition)

by Leonid V Azaroff
Physics Over Easy: Breakfasts With Beth And Physics (2nd Edition)

Physics Over Easy: Breakfasts With Beth And Physics (2nd Edition)

by Leonid V Azaroff

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During a sequence of meals, the author relates the principal features of physics in easy-to-understand conversations with his wife Beth. Beginning with the studies of motion by Galileo and Newton through to the revolutionary theories of relativity and quantum mechanics in the 20th century, all important aspects of electricity, energy, magnetism, gravity and the structure of matter and atoms are explained and illustrated.The second edition similarly recounts the more recent application of these theories to nanoparticles, Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum entanglement and quantum computers. By including accurate measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background and supernovae in near and distant galaxies, an understanding of how the universe was formed in an Inflationary Big Bang is now possible. We've also gained a much better picture of the life of stars and how they may turn into red giants, white dwarfs, black holes, neutron stars or pulsars.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789814295444
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 07/30/2010
Edition description: 2nd Revised ed.
Pages: 300
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Introduction: What Keeps Us Going? 1

Physicists, and Other People 1

Chapter 1 Breakfast of Hard-Boiled Eggs with Inertia 5

How It All Began-with Rolling Balls 5

Chapter 2 Breakfast of Eggs Bene-Bricked 15

What Keeps the Ball Rolling? 15

Chapter 3 Breakfast of Apple-Gravity Pancakes 21

Why Does an Apple Fall From a Tree? 21

Chapter 4 Breakfast of Cereal and Calories 30

But It Takes Energy to Keep Moving 30

Chapter 5 Breakfast of Hot Cakes with Energy 35

How Hot is It? 35

Putting Heat to Work 37

Chapter 6 Breakfast of French Toast 44

First Law: You Can't Win 44

Second Law: Nor Can You Break Even 46

Chapter 7 Breakfast of Cold Cuts 52

Go Fly a Kite! 52

Storing Electricity 57

Chapter 8 Breakfast of Blueberry Muffins 64

Electricity in Matter 64

a.c./d.c. 71

Chapter 9 Breakfast of Apple Fritters and Love 77

Magnetic Forces 77

Magnetic Fields 81

What Maxwell Wrought 87

Chapter 10 Breakfast of Eggs and Crisp Bacon 93

Making Waves 93

What Waves Can Do 97

Chapter 11 Breakfast of Oat Meal with Light Cream 106

What is Light? 106

How and What We See 109

It's a Colorful World! 116

Chapter 12 Breakfast of Lox and Bagels 121

What's the Speed of Light? 121

Is it Really Relative? 123

The Paradoxes of Relativity and Black Holes 126

Chapter 13 Breakfast of Farina 132

Does Anyone Believe in Quanta? 132

What About Atoms? 136

Chapter 14 Breakfast of Danish Pastry 145

What's a Wave Function? 145

Born and Heisenberg Have the Answer 150

Chapter 15 Breakfast of Waffles 155

Atoms Can Be Fun 155

What Attracts Atoms to Each Other? 164

Chapter 16 Breakfast of O. J., Donuts, and Coffee 170

Surrounded by Fluids 170

We Depend on Solids 173

Chapter 17 Breakfast of Rice Krispies 178

Who's Afraid of Radioactivity? 178

What's Inside the Nucleus? 182

For Better or For Worse-Nuclear Energy 185

Our Nuclear Legacy 196

Chapter 18 Breakfast of Corn Fritters 200

A Mess of Particles 200

What, More Conservation Laws? 205

Quarks and More Quarks 210

The GUTS of Physics 216

Chapter 19 Dinner at Home 220

Einstein Centennial 220

A Promising Nanotechnology 223

Quantum Entanglement 226

Quantum Computers 229

Chapter 20 Lunch at the Beach 232

Bose-Einstein Condensates 232

Chapter 21 Lunch at Venetian Bay 238

Our Energy Problems 238

Energy Wastes 239

The Good News about Nukes 241

Chapter 22 Breakfast at the Beach 244

How It All Began 244

Cosmic Microwave Background 245

Big Bang 246

Inflationary Universe 249

Probing the Cosmic Microwave Background 251

Chapter 23 Dinner Under the Stars 254

The Stars in Heaven 254

Red Giants and White Dwarfs 256

Chapter 24 After Dinner at Home 260

Supernovae and Neutron Stars 260

Black Holes 263

Supernovae as Standard Candles 265

Glossary of Physics Terms 268

Acknowledgments 279

Index 281

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