The wonders of physics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore ; River Edge, NJ :
World Scientific,
[2004]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Outdoor physics. Meandering down to the sea ; Rivers from lakes ; The oceanic phone booth ; In the blue ; The moon-glades ; The Fucault [sic] pendulum and the Baer law ; The moon-brake
- pt. 2. Saturday night physics. Why the violin sings ; The chiming and silent goblets ; The bubble and the droplet ; The mysteries of the magic lamp ; Waiting for the tea-kettle to boil ; Craving microwaved mammoth ; Ab(out) ovo ; The physics of good coffee ; "Nunc est bibendum" : physicists talk around glasses of wine ; The water mike or about one invention of Alexander Bell; How the waves transmit information ; Why the electric power lines are droning ; The footprints on the sand ; How to prevent snowdrifts ; The incident in the train
- pt. 3. Windows to the quantumworld. The uncertainty principle ; On the snowballs, nuts, bubbles and ... liquid helium ; Superconductivity passion at the end of the millennium ; What is a SQUID? ; Superconducting magnets.