50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know (50 ideas)

Baker, Joanne

ISBN 10: 1847241484 / ISBN 13: 9781847241481

Published by Quercus, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know (50 ideas)
• Publisher: Quercus
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847241484
• ISBN 13: 9781847241481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Kepler’s law of planetary motion and Newton’s law of gravitation, Joanne Baker unravels the sometimes baffling complexities of modern scientific theory ? from Planck’s law to Pauli’s exclusion principle and from Schrondinger’s cat to string theory. The essays are accompanied by a range of useful editorial features, including biographies of iconic physicists, timelines of related ideas, explanatory diagrams and display quotations.

About the Author

Joanne Baker studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and took her PhD at the University of Sydney in 1995. She is a physical science editor at Science magazine, where her speciality is space and earth science.