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Baker, Joanne, author.

Title 50 physics ideas you really need to know / Joanne Baker.

Publication Info.	New York, N.Y. : Quercus, 2014.
	Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2016.

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Description	1 online resource (59 entries) : 51 images ; digital files.
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Contents	Introduction -- Matter in motion: 01. Mach's principle; 02. Newton's laws of motion; 03. Kepler's laws; 04. Newton's law of gravitation; 05. Conservation of energy; 06. Simple harmonic motion; 07. Hooke's law; 08. Ideal gas law; 09. Second law of thermodynamics; 10. Absolute zero; 11. Brownian motion; 12. Chaos theory; 13. Bernoulli equation -- Beneath the waves: 14. Newton's theory of colour; 15. Huygens’ principle; 16. Snell's law; 17. Bragg's law; 18. Fraunhofer diffraction; 19. Doppler effect; 20. Ohm's law; 21. Fleming's right hand rule; 22. Maxwell's equations -- Quantum conundrums: 23. Planck's law; 24. Photoelectric effect; 25. Schrödinger's wave equation; 26. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle; 27. Copenhagen interpretation; 28. Schrödinger's cat; 29. The EPR paradox; 30. Pauli's exclusion principle; 31. Superconductivity -- Splitting atoms: 32. Rutherford's atom; 33. Antimatter; 34. Nuclear fission; 35. Nuclear fusion; 36. Standard model; 37. Feynman diagrams; 38. The God particle; 39. String theory -- Space and time: 40. Special relativity; 41. General relativity; 42. Black holes; 43. Olbers’ paradox; 44. Hubble's law; 45. The big bang; 46. Cosmic inflation; 47. Dark matter; 48. Cosmological constant; 49. Fermi paradox; 50. Anthropic principle -- Glossary.
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Summary	In 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know Joanne Baker will uncover the physics all around us, from basic concepts like gravity, light and energy through to the complexities of quantum theory, chaos and dark energy.
Form	Also available in print version.
System Details	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note	Description based on title page of print version.
Subject	Physics -- Popular works.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
Added Title	Fifty physics ideas you really need to know.
Other Form:	Print version: 184866706X 9781848667068 208 pages : illustrations
ISBN	9781785397264 electronic version
	184866706X print
	9781848667068 print