Jackson, Tom. creator text xxu New York Shelter Harbor Press [2013] monographic eng

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144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm 1 fold-out timeline. The dawn of science: -- Explaining nature ; Thales, the father ; Atoms: starting small ; Four elements and more ; Eureka! The Archimedes Principle ; Making machinery ; Seeing beams of light ; The mechanics ; Force and inertia ; Artificial rainbows ; Ockham's Razor ; Adding impetus ; Theory of tides ; Understanding magnets ; Law of refraction ; Galileo: the fall guy ; Applying pressure ; Pendulums ; Hooke's Law ; Gas laws -- The scientific revolution: -- Newton's principles ; Theories of light ; The flying boy: conducting electricity ; Temperature scale ; The Leyden Jar ; Hidden heat ; Fire and matter ; Measuring charge ; Weighing a planet ; Frogs legs and piles ; Atomic theory ; Light is a wave ; Plastic and elastic ; Electricity meets magnets ; The thermolectric effect ; Heat engines ; Brownian motion -- From classical to modern physics: -- Inducing currents ; The Doppler effect ; Thermodynamics: the first law ; The mechanical equivalent of heat ; One energy ; Absolute temperature ; Working at light speed ; Spectroscopy: essential information ; Maxwell's equations ; Going from hot to cold ; Electrifying gases ; Boltzmann's equation ; Tesla: an alternating character ; Mach goes supersonic ; Looking for ether ; Waves through nothing ; X: the unknown ray -- The subatomic age: -- Radioactivity ; The first subatomic particle ; Planck's constant ; Long-distance radio ; The Curies ; Einstein's annus mirabilis ; Special relativity ; A positive discovery ; Units of charge ; Cloud chambers ; Superconductors ; Cosmic rays ; The quantum atom ; General relativity: space and time ; The proton ; Wave-particle duality ; Exclusion principle ; Bosons: force particles ; An uncertain universe ; Geiger's counter ; Antimatter: the same but different ; Atom smasher ; The electron microscope ; Neutrons: the final piece ; Positrons: a new puzzle ; Missing matter ; Indoor lightning ; Speeding light: Cherenkov radiation ; Exotic particles ; Superfluidity ; Nuclear fission -- Modern physics: -- QED: quantum electrodynamics ; Transistors ; The big bang ; Bubbles and sparks ; Ivy Mike: another big bang ; Masers, then lasers ; Neutrino flavors ; Quarks: strangeness and charm ; The Standard Model ; String theory ; Hawking radiation ; Spintronics ; Dark energy ; The hunt for the Higgs ; Supersymmetry? -- 101 physics: the basics -- Imponderables -- The great physicists -- Bibliography and other resources -- Index -- Acknoledgments -- A timeline history of physics (back pocket) -- Measuring the universe -- Inside matter. Jackson, Tom Includes bibliographical references (page 140) and index. Physics Physics Popular works Physics History 530 J145p 9780985323066 (hbk. 2016427644 160921 20160927125647.0