Physics over easy : breakfasts with Beth and physics /
Azároff, Leonid V.
Physics over easy : breakfasts with Beth and physics / Leonid V. Azároff. - 2nd ed. - New Jersey : World Scientific, ©2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Preface; Introduction: What Keeps Us Going? Physicists, and Other People; Chapter One: Breakfast of Hard-Boiled Eggs with Inertia How It All Began -- with Rolling Balls; Chapter Two: Breakfast of Eggs Bene-Bricked What Keeps the Ball Rolling?; Chapter Three: Breakfast of Apple-Gravity Pancakes Why Does an Apple Fall From a Tree?; Chapter Four: Breakfast of Cereal and Calories But It Takes Energy to Keep Moving; Chapter Five: Breakfast of Hot Cakes with Energy How Hot is It? Putting Heat to Work.
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.
9789814295468 (electronic bk.) 9814295469 (electronic bk.)
Physics--Popular works.
Physique--Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
SCIENCE--Physics--General.
SCIENCE--Mechanics--General.
SCIENCE--Energy.
Physics.
Electronic books.
Popular works.
QC24.5 / .A93 2010eb
530
Physics over easy : breakfasts with Beth and physics / Leonid V. Azároff. - 2nd ed. - New Jersey : World Scientific, ©2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Preface; Introduction: What Keeps Us Going? Physicists, and Other People; Chapter One: Breakfast of Hard-Boiled Eggs with Inertia How It All Began -- with Rolling Balls; Chapter Two: Breakfast of Eggs Bene-Bricked What Keeps the Ball Rolling?; Chapter Three: Breakfast of Apple-Gravity Pancakes Why Does an Apple Fall From a Tree?; Chapter Four: Breakfast of Cereal and Calories But It Takes Energy to Keep Moving; Chapter Five: Breakfast of Hot Cakes with Energy How Hot is It? Putting Heat to Work.
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.
9789814295468 (electronic bk.) 9814295469 (electronic bk.)
Physics--Popular works.
Physique--Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
SCIENCE--Physics--General.
SCIENCE--Mechanics--General.
SCIENCE--Energy.
Physics.
Electronic books.
Popular works.
QC24.5 / .A93 2010eb
530