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From electromagnetism to dark matter, this eye-catching hardback guide explores the fascinating world of physics through its 50 essential ideas, brought to life with full-colour graphics, illuminating diagrams, and engaging feature boxes.

Physics forms the basis of our understanding of the fundamental nature of the universe, from the particles that make up matter to the forces that govern their interactions. In this beautifully illustrated book, Robert Snedden introduces you to the fascinating world of physics and its greatest practitioners.

Ranging from gravity to thermodynamics to quantum physics and relativity and featuring ideas from such esteemed physicists as Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell and Albert Einstein, this essential guide will bring you up to speed on the core themes and theories of this great subject.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The 50 Essential Ideas series brings together entertaining, highly visual guides to different disciplines, from philosophy to physics. It explores the subject's 50 greatest ideas, giving readers an accessible overview of its defining theories and breakthroughs.



Table of Contents:

Introduction: Made to measure - physics, maths and measurement

1: The fact of the matter - what is everything made of?
2: Persistence of motion - momentum and inertia
3: It's just rocket science - action and reaction, Newton's mechanics
4: Free falling - the laws of gravity
5: Newton's bucket - spinning in absolute space
6: There and back again - harmonic motion
7: Neither created nor destroyed - the nature of energy
8: Going with the flow - fluid mechanics
9: Getting warmer - thermal radiation
10: Heat and work - the first law of thermodynamics
11: Spring in the air - the gas laws
12: The end of all things - time's arrow and the second law of thermodynamics
13: Molecules in motion - statistical mechanics and kinetic theory
14: Force of attraction - magnetism
15: A flash of lightning - electric charge
16: Current events - electrical energy, current and resistance
17: Two become one - electromagnetism, motors and generators
18: Lines of force - force fields
19: The waves we cannot see - electromagnetic waves and Maxwell's equations
20: Perfect harmony - the physics of sound
21: Chasing rainbows - light, reflected, refracted and focussed
22: Interfering with Isaac - light is a wave - Young's double slit and Fresnel's interference
23: Light from the atom - fluorescence and spectral emissions
24: Baffling blackbodies - Planck's quanta and the photoelectric effect
25: How can it be like that? - unravelling the nature of light, wave/particle duality
26: Leaps and bounds - quantum numbers, the exclusion principle and matrix mechanics
27: Here, there and everywhere - Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Schrodinger's cat and the many worlds theory
28: Spooky action - quantum entanglement and the EPR paradox
29: QED - quantum field theory and force carriers
30: Matter transformed - discovering radioactivity
31: Atomic building bricks - the structure of the atom
32: Muster Mark's quarks -the standard model and the particle zoo
33: Holding it all together - the fundamental forces that bind atoms
34: Atoms undone - nuclear bombs and power
35: Annihilating opposites - antimatter
36: Completing the picture - the Higg's boson
37: It's not the same for everyone - relativity from Galileo to Einstein
38: Shining a light - the absolute nature of light speed
39: Frames of reference - Einstein's special relativity theory
40: No space, no time - mapping the universe on curving spacetime; the block universe
41: Einstein's gravity - the general theory of relativity
42: The end of spacetime - the physics of black holes
43: A subtle cataclysm - detecting gravitational waves
44: Star power - nuclear fusion and E=mc2
45: Where it begins - big bang theory
46: The grand scale - physics and the shape of the universe
47: Sight unseen - dark matter
48: Dancing in the dark - dark energy
49: Across the great divide - reconciling general relativity and quantum mechanics, loop quantum gravity
50: World on a string - supersymmetry, strings and superstrings



About the Author :
Robert Snedden has worked in publishing for more than forty years as an editor and writer. His writing ranges across diverse topics as medical ethics, habitats, physics and engineering, pharmacogenetics, chemistry and the technology of ancient civilizations. He has written many successful titles such as the Great Breakthroughs series and 15-Minute Einstein, which have been published internationally in many languages.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781398824812
  • Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Arcturus
  • Height: 248 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 180 mm
  • ISBN-10: 139882481X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 50 Essential Ideas
  • Weight: 858 gr


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