Physics over easy : breakfasts with Beth and physics /
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| Language: | English |
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Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. :
World Scientific,
©1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: What Keeps Us Going?
- Physicists, and Other People
- Breakfast One: Hard-Boiled Eggs with Inertia
- How It All Began
- with Rolling Balls
- Breakfast Two: Eggs Bene-Bricked
- What Keeps the Ball Rolling?
- Breakfast Three: Apple-Gravity Pancakes
- Why Does an Apple Fall From a Tree?
- Breakfast Four: Cereal and Calories
- But It Takes Energy to Keep Moving
- Breakfast Five: Hot Cakes with Energy
- How Hot is It?
- Putting Heat to Work
- Breakfast Six: French Toast
- First Law: You Cant Win
- Second Law: Nor Can You Break Even
- Breakfast Seven: Cold Cuts
- Go Fly a Kite!
- Storing Electicity
- Breakfast Eight: Blueberry Muffins
- Electricity in Matter
- a.c./d.c.
- Breakfast Nine: Apple Fritters and Love
- Magnetic Forces
- Magnetic Fields
- What Maxwell Wrought
- Breakfast Ten: Eggs and Crisp Bacon
- Making Waves
- What Waves Can Do
- Breakfast Eleven: Oat Meal with Light Cream
- What is Light?
- How and What We See
- Its a Colorful World!
- Breakfast Twelve: Lox And Bagels
- Whats the Speed of Light?
- Is it Really Relative?
- The Paradoxes of Relativity and Black Holes
- Breakfast Thirteen: Farina
- Does Anyone Believe in Quanta?
- What About Atoms?
- Breakfast Fourteen: Danish Pastry
- Whats a Wave Function?
- Born and Heisenberg Have the Answer
- Breakfast Fifteen: Waffles
- Atoms Can Be Fun
- What Attracts Atoms to Each Other?
- Breakfast Sixteen: 0. J., Donuts, and Coffee
- Surrounded by Fluids
- We Depend on Solids
- Breakfast Seventeen: Rice Krispies
- Whos Afraid of Radioactivity?
- Whats Inside the Nucleus?
- For Better or For Worse
- Nuclear Energy
- Our Nuclear Legacy
- Breakfast Eighteen: Corn Fritters
- A Mess of Particles
- What, More Conservation Laws?
- Quarks and More Quarks
- The GUTS of Physics
- Epilogue: What Lies Ahead?
- Searching for a Beginning
- Symmetry and Chaos
- Whats Left?
- Glossary of Physics Terms
- Acknowledgments.