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Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 528 pages, height x width x depth: 214x186x34 mm, all in color
  • Sērija : Union Square & Co. Milestones
  • Izdošanas datums: 01-Nov-2011
  • Izdevniecība: Sterling
  • ISBN-10: 1402778619
  • ISBN-13: 9781402778612
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 528 pages, height x width x depth: 214x186x34 mm, all in color
  • Sērija : Union Square & Co. Milestones
  • Izdošanas datums: 01-Nov-2011
  • Izdevniecība: Sterling
  • ISBN-10: 1402778619
  • ISBN-13: 9781402778612
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Following the hugely successful The Science Book and The Math Book comes a richly illustrated chronology of physics, containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon, the book's timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time of “quantum resurrection.” Like the previous titles in this series, The Physics Book helps readers gain an understanding of major concepts without getting bogged down in complex details.

 
Introduction 10(6)
Acknowledgments 16(2)
Setting the Stage
13.7 Billion B.C. Big Bang
18(2)
3 Billion B.C. Black Diamonds
20(2)
2 Billion B.C. Prehistoric Nuclear Reactor
22(2)
The Discoveries
30,000 B.C. Atlatl
24(2)
20,000 B.C. Boomerang
26(2)
3000 B.C. Sundial
28(2)
2500 B.C. Truss
30(2)
1850 B.C. Arch
32(2)
1000 B.C. Olmec Compass
34(2)
341 B.C. Crossbow
36(2)
250 B.C. Baghdad Battery
38(2)
250 B.C. Siphon
40(2)
250 B.C. Archimedes' Principle of Buoyancy
42(2)
250 B.C. Archimedean Screw
44(2)
240 B.C. Eratosthenes Measures the Earth
46(2)
230 B.C. Pulley
48(2)
212 B.C. Archimedes' Burning Mirrors
50(2)
125 B.C. Antikythera Mechanism
52(2)
50 Hero's Jet Engine
54(2)
50 Gears
56(2)
78 St. Elmo's Fire
58(2)
1132 Cannon
60(2)
1150 Perpetual Motion Machines
62(2)
1200 Trebuchet
64(2)
1304 Explaining the Rainbow
66(2)
1338 Hourglass
68(2)
1543 Sun-Centered Universe
70(2)
1596 Mysterium Cosmographicum
72(2)
1600 De Magnete
74(2)
1608 Telescope
76(2)
1609 Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
78(2)
1610 Discovery of Saturn's Rings
80(2)
1611 Kepler's "Six-Cornered Snowflake"
82(2)
1620 Triboluminescence
84(2)
1621 Snell's Law of Refraction
86(2)
1621 Aurora Borealis
88(2)
1638 Acceleration of Falling Objects
90(2)
1643 Barometer
92(2)
1644 Conservation of Momentum
94(2)
1660 Hooke's Law of Elasticity
96(2)
1660 Von Guericke's Electrostatic Generator
98(2)
1662 Boyle's Gas Law
100(2)
1665 Micrographia
102(2)
1669 Amontons' Friction
104(2)
1672 Measuring the Solar System
106(2)
1672 Newton's Prism
108(2)
1673 Tautochrone Ramp
110(2)
1687 Newton's Laws of Motion and Gravitation
112(2)
1687 Newton as Inspiration
114(2)
1711 Tuning Fork
116(2)
1728 Escape Velocity
118(2)
1738 Bernoulli's Law of Fluid Dynamics
120(2)
1744 Leyden Jar
122(2)
1752 Ben Franklin's Kite
124(2)
1761 Black Drop Effect
126(2)
1766 Bode's Law of Planetary Distances
128(2)
1777 Lichtenberg Figures
130(2)
1779 Black Eye Galaxy
132(2)
1783 Black Holes
134(2)
1785 Coulomb's Law of Electrostatics
136(2)
1787 Charles' Gas Law
138(2)
1796 Nebular Hypothesis
140(2)
1798 Cavendish Weighs the Earth
142(2)
1800 Battery
144(2)
1801 Wave Nature of Light
146(2)
1803 Henry's Gas Law
148(2)
1807 Fourier Analysis
150(2)
1808 Atomic Theory
152(2)
1811 Avogadro's Gas Law
154(2)
1814 Fraunhofer Lines
156(2)
1814 Laplace's Demon
158(2)
1815 Brewster's Optics
160(2)
1816 Stethoscope
162(2)
1822 Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction
164(2)
1823 Olbers' Paradox
166(2)
1824 Greenhouse Effect
168(2)
1824 Carnot Engine
170(2)
1825 Ampere's Law of Electromagnetism
172(2)
1826 Rogue Waves
174(2)
1827 Ohm's Law of Electricity
176(2)
1827 Brownian Motion
178(2)
1829 Graham's Law of Effusion
180(2)
1831 Faraday's Laws of Induction
182(2)
1834 Soliton
184(2)
1835 Gauss and the Magnetic Monopole
186(2)
1838 Stellar Parallax
188(2)
1839 Fuel Cell
190(2)
1840 Poiseuille's Law of Fluid Flow
192(2)
1840 Joule's Law of Electric Heating
194(2)
1841 Anniversary Clock
196(2)
1841 Fiber Optics
198(2)
1842 Doppler Effect
200(2)
1843 Conservation of Energy
202(2)
1844 I-Beams
204(2)
1845 Kirchhoff's Circuit Laws
206(2)
1846 Discovery of Neptune
208(2)
1850 Second Law of Thermodynamics
210(2)
1850 Ice Slipperiness
212(2)
1851 Foucault's Pendulum
214(2)
1851 Stokes' Law of Viscosity
216(2)
1852 Gyroscope
218(2)
1852 Stokes' Fluorescence
220(2)
1857 Buys-Ballot's Weather Law
222(2)
1859 Kinetic Theory
224(2)
1861 Maxwell's Equations
226(2)
1864 Electromagnetic Spectrum
228(2)
1866 Surface Tension
230(2)
1866 Dynamite
232(2)
1867 Maxwell's Demon
234(2)
1868 Discovery of Helium
236(2)
1870 Baseball Curveball
238(2)
1871 Rayleigh Scattering
240(2)
1873 Crookes Radiometer
242(2)
1875 Boltzmann's Entropy Equation
244(2)
1878 Incandescent Light Bulb
246(2)
1879 Plasma
248(2)
1879 Hall Effect
250(2)
1880 Piezoelectric Effect
252(2)
1880 War Tubas
254(2)
1882 Galvanometer
256(2)
1882 Green Flash
258(2)
1887 Michelson-Morley Experiment
260(2)
1889 Birth of the Kilogram
262(2)
1889 Birth of the Meter
264(2)
1890 Eotvos' Gravitational Gradiometry
266(2)
1891 Tesla Coil
268(2)
1892 Thermos
270(2)
1895 X-rays
272(2)
1895 Curie's Magnetism Law
274(2)
1896 Radioactivity
276(2)
1897 Electron
278(2)
1898 Mass Spectrometer
280(2)
1900 Blackbody Radiation Law
282(2)
1901 Clothoid Loop
284(2)
1903 Black Light
286(2)
1903 Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation
288(2)
1904 Lorentz Transformation
290(2)
1905 Special Theory of Relativity
292(2)
1905 E = mc2
294(2)
1905 Photoelectric Effect
296(2)
1905 Golf Ball Dimples
298(2)
1905 Third Law of Thermodynamics
300(2)
1906 Vacuum Tube
302(2)
1908 Geiger Counter
304(2)
1909 Bremsstrahlung
306(2)
1910 Cosmic Rays
308(2)
1911 Superconductivity
310(2)
1911 Atomic Nucleus
312(2)
1911 Karman Vortex Street
314(2)
1911 Wilson Cloud Chamber
316(2)
1912 Cepheid Variables Measure the Universe
318(2)
1912 Bragg's Law of Crystal Diffraction
320(2)
1913 Bohr Atom
322(2)
1913 Millikan Oil Drop Experiment
324(2)
1915 General Theory of Relativity
326(2)
1919 String Theory
328(2)
1921 Einstein as Inspiration
330(2)
1922 Stern-Gerlach Experiment
332(2)
1923 Neon Signs
334(2)
1923 Compton Effect
336(2)
1924 De Broglie Relation
338(2)
1925 Pauli Exclusion Principle
340(2)
1926 Schrodinger's Wave Equation
342(2)
1927 Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
344(2)
1927 Complementarity Principle
346(2)
1927 Hypersonic Whiperacking
348(2)
1928 Dirac Equation
350(2)
1928 Quantum Tunneling
352(2)
1929 Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion
354(2)
1929 Cyclotron
356(2)
1931 White Dwarfs and Chandrasekhar Limit
358(2)
1931 Jacob's Ladder
360(2)
1932 Neutron
362(2)
1932 Antimatter
364(2)
1933 Dark Matter
366(2)
1933 Neutron Stars
368(2)
1934 Cherenkov Radiation
370(2)
1934 Sonoluminescence
372(2)
1935 EPR Paradox
374(2)
1935 Schrodinger's Cat
376(2)
1937 Superfluids
378(2)
1938 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
380(2)
1942 Energy from the Nucleus
382(2)
1943 Silly Putty
384(2)
1945 Drinking Bird
386(2)
1945 Little Boy Atomic Bomb
388(2)
1946 Stellar Nucleosynthesis
390(2)
1947 Transistor
392(2)
1947 Sonic Booms
394(2)
1947 Hologram
396(2)
1948 Quantum Electrodynamics
398(2)
1948 Tensegrity
400(2)
1948 Casimir Effect
402(2)
1949 Time Travel
404(2)
1949 Radiocarbon Dating
406(2)
1950 Fermi Paradox
408(2)
1954 Solar Cells
410(2)
1955 Leaning Tower of Lire
412(2)
1955 Seeing the Single Atom
414(2)
1955 Atomic Clocks
416(2)
1956 Parallel Universes
418(2)
1956 Neutrinos
420(2)
1956 Tokamak
422(2)
1958 Integrated Circuit
424(2)
1959 Dark Side of the Moon
426(2)
1960 Dyson Sphere
428(2)
1960 Laser
430(2)
1960 Terminal Velocity
432(2)
1961 Anthropie Principle
434(2)
1961 Standard Model
436(2)
1962 Electromagnetic Pulse
438(2)
1963 Chaos Theory
440(2)
1963 Quasars
442(2)
1963 Lava Lamp
444(2)
1964 The God Particle
446(2)
1964 Quarks
448(2)
1964 CP Violation
450(2)
1964 Bell's Theorem
452(2)
1965 Super Ball
454(2)
1965 Cosmic Microwave Background
456(2)
1967 Gamma-Ray Bursts
458(2)
1967 Living in a Simulation
460(2)
1967 Tachyons
462(2)
1967 Newton's Cradle
464(2)
1967 Metamaterials
466(2)
1969 Unilluminable Rooms
468(2)
1971 Supersymmetry
470(2)
1980 Cosmic Inflation
472(2)
1981 Quantum Computers
474(2)
1982 Quasicrystals
476(2)
1984 Theory of Everything
478(2)
1985 Buckyballs
480(2)
1987 Quantum Immortality
482(2)
1987 Self-Organized Criticality
484(2)
1988 Wormhole Time Machine
486(2)
1990 Hubble Telescope
488(2)
1992 Chronology Protection Conjecture
490(2)
1993 Quantum Teleportation
492(2)
1993 Stephen Hawking on Star Trek
494(2)
1995 Bose-Einstein Condensate
496(2)
1998 Dark Energy
498(2)
1999 Randall-Sundrum Branes
500(2)
1999 Fastest Tornado Speed
502(2)
2007 HAARP
504(2)
2008 Blackest Black
506(2)
2009 Large Hadron Collider
508(2)
Closing the Curtain
36 Billion Cosmological Big Rip
510(2)
100 Billion Cosmic Isolation
512(2)
100 Trillion Universe Fades
514(2)
>1100 Trillion Quantum Resurrection
516(2)
Notes and Further Reading 518(8)
Index 526(2)
Photo Credits 528
Clifford A. Pickover received his PhD from Yale in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and has written more than 40 books and over 200 articles. His research has received considerable attention from such media outlets as CNN, the Discovery Channel, The New York Times and WIRED and his website, www.pickover.com, has received millions of visits.