Everything You Need to Know About Physics,9780671534905

Everything You Need to Know About Physics

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ISBN13: 9780671534905
ISBN10: 0671534904
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-10-01
Publisher(s): Pocket Books
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Summary

If you think the Laws of Motion are only discussed in the local traffic court, or that E=mc[superscript 2] is the name of a rap group, The Pocket Professor: Physics is just the thing to accelerate your learning curve and give you the vocabulary and core knowledge you need to make sense of the rules that govern our universe. You'll learn why Galileo dropped the ball, follow Planck on his quantum leap, and perceive the relative genius of Einstein. Taking you to the eve of the atom's discovery and explaining the seriousness of gravity, this invaluable volume gives you everything you need to better understand the world according to Newton (that's Sir Isaac, not Big Fig). Book jacket.

Table of Contents

WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN
1(1)
WHY DOES THE SUN ALWAYS SET IN THE WEST?
2(1)
WHAT IS PHYSICS?
2(1)
WHAT IS HARD?
3(1)
WHAT IF PHYSICS WERE SIMPLE?
4(3)
YOU GOT A PROBLEM?
7(4)
Albert Einstein Explains How to Think About Thinking
7(1)
GALILEO'S SCIENTIFIC METHOD UNVEILED
8(3)
How Carl Sagan Separated the Scientific Truth from the Bull
10(1)
HOW TO TALK IN PHYSICS
11(7)
English-to-Physics Dictionary
12(6)
PHYSICS ACROSS THREE TIME ZONES
18(1)
Physics Timeline Explained
18(1)
Two THOUSAND YEARS OF WRONG THINKING IN PHYSICS
19(4)
The Way Things Weren't
19(1)
ARISTARCHUS AND ARISTOTLE
20(1)
Missing the Boat with Aristotle
21(1)
PTOLEMY WHAT YOU THINK
21(2)
ARISTARCHUS GETS VINDICATED AND PTOLEMY GETS A KICK IN THE PBUTT
23(1)
LET THE CLASSICAL PHYSICS REVOLUTION BEGIN
23(21)
GALILEO DEVELOPS THE FIRST ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE
23(1)
SCIENCE THROWS DOWN THE GAUNTLET
23(1)
GALILEO TAKES ON THE CHURCH... AND PUBLIC OPINION
24(1)
GALILEO TAKES ON ARISTOTLE
24(1)
"WHAT IF PHYSICS WERE DIFFERENT?"
25(1)
GALILEO STARTS SMALL
26(1)
GALILEO'S NEXT PROBLEM...
26(3)
GALILEO AS SUPERMAN
29(1)
BUT GALILEO DOESN'T COMPLETE THE CIRCLE
30(1)
KEPLER IS LOYAL TO THE CHURCH BUT SUPPORTS GALILEO, TOO
31(1)
DESCARTES ADDS HIS TWO CENTS AND FINALLY GETS AHEAD OF THE HORSE
32(1)
NEWTON WINS THE GLORY
33(1)
"SOLAR" SYSTEM? WHAT A CONCEPT!
33(1)
NEWTON STEALS MORE IDEAS FROM GALILEO
34(1)
HOW TO THINK LIKE ISAAC NEWTON
34(1)
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO NEWTON
35(2)
Phenomenon, Phenomena
35(2)
GRAVITY... AS YOU'VE NEVER KNOWN HER
37(4)
The Ultimate Gravity Proof
39(2)
The Other Ultimate Gravity Proof
41(1)
The Final Ultimate Gravity Proof
41(1)
MARILYN, ELVIS, AND ISAAC?
41(1)
Three Things Isaac Newton and a First Lady Have in Common
42(1)
NEW STUDY SHOWS IT'S NOT JUST CRIMINALS WHO HATE NEWTON
42(1)
MAYBE IT'S JUST A SIGN OF THE TIMES
43(1)
KEEPING THE PLANETS IN LINE
44(3)
ELLIPTICALLY SPEAKING
44(1)
DISTANCE (Divided by) TIME = SPEED
45(1)
A MATTER OF GRAVITY
46(1)
GRAVITY'S NOT THE ONLY FORCE
47(2)
Do-It-Yourself Gravity
49(1)
GREAT STRIDES IN PHYSICS
49(25)
CLASSICAL MECHANICS
50(6)
Alternative Energy Source?
51(1)
An Analogy to Drool Over
52(4)
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
56(5)
Four Things Ben Franklin Never Knew About Electricity
58(3)
HEAT
61(8)
Gas, Liquid, or Solid?
66(3)
SOUND
69(3)
Catch a Wave! Eleven Things Your Local Surfer Can Teach You About Physics
70(2)
LIGHT
72(2)
...THE END OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS
74(2)
WHAT'S AN ATOM?
74(1)
ERNEST RUTHERFORD DISCOVERS THE NUCLEUS
75(1)
THE BIRTH OF QUANTUM THEORY
76(50)
And Let's Not Forget the Ether Question
77(1)
ALBERT EINSTEIN MOUNTS A SIDE ATTACK ON NEWTON AND CLASSICAL PHYSICS
78(1)
Love Your Underachiever
78(1)
Or Did Albert Have a Master Plan?
79(1)
EINSTEIN HAS A GOOD YEAR
79(1)
Al Has an Even Better Year... While Taking a Road Trip 42 Years After He Died
80(1)
E=MC^2
80(1)
How Albert Einstein Tricked the Teacher
81(1)
"ISN'T THAT SPECIAL?"
81(1)
"WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?"
81(2)
FROM "HOW COME ...?" TO "WHAT IF... ?"
83(1)
NOW IT'S TIME FOR AN EINSTEIN ANECDOTE
83(2)
"WHAT DID YOU SEE AND WHEN DID YOU SEE IT?"
85(2)
Faster than a Speeding Gedanken...
86(1)
THE BOTTOM LINE ON EINSTEIN'S SPECIAL RELATIVITY
87(1)
"THIS IS EINSTEIN TO MISSION CONTROL"
87(3)
SPACE AND TIME
90(4)
My Time Isn't Your Time
91(3)
THE EINSTEIN ADDENDUM
94(1)
Heads or Tails?
94(1)
"WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, ALFIE?"
95(3)
Yikes! Light Bends! Space Is Warped!
96(2)
"GO STRAIGHT, YOUNG MAN"
98(1)
WHEW! THAT'S A RELIEF--EVEN EINSTEIN COULD FAIL!
99(1)
CONTRAST WITH A THEORY CALLED CHAOS
100(1)
BACK TO THE QUANTUM HIGHWAY
100(3)
A Technical Physics Term: "Weird"
102(1)
TEN RANDOM CLUES ABOUT QUANTUM PHYSICS THAT WON'T HELP YOU UNDERSTAND IT AT ALL
103(23)
But What About Schrodinger's Cat?
113(1)
And Einstein's Cat...
113(2)
Your Favorite Physicists Trade Barbs
115(11)
HOW TO MAKE A STARTLING NEW DISCOVERY IN PHYSICS
126(9)
How to Succeed in Physics
127(2)
ARE GREAT PHYSICISTS BORN OR MADE?
129(1)
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
130(1)
HOW TO WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE...
131(1)
... AND WHAT TO DO AFTER YOU'VE WON IT
132(2)
BEST-SELLING AUTHORS AS PHYSICISTS
134(1)
A Few Final Words 135

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