Physics over easy : breakfasts with Beth and physics / Leonid V. Azároff.

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Azároff, Leonid V

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9789814295468
9814295469

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Physics over easy.DDC classification:

530 22

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QC24.5 .A93 2010eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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