Physics over Easy

by Azaroff, Leonid V.

• ISBN13: 9789810223571
• ISBN10: 9810223579
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

Explore how the electromagnetic fields from overhead power lines, and how nuclear reactors and bombs, as well as their waste products, affect our daily lives.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What Keeps Us Going? Physicists, and Other People	p. 1
One: Hard-Boiled Eggs with Inertia: How It All Began - with Rolling Balls	p. 4
Two: Eggs Bene-Bricked: What Keeps the Ball Rolling?	p. 14
Three: Apple-Gravity Pancakes: Why Does an Apple Fall From a Tree?	p. 20
Four: Cereal and Calories: But It Takes Energy to Keep Moving	p. 29
Five: Hot Cakes with Energy: How Hot is It?	p. 34
Putting Heat to Work	p. 36
Six: French Toast	p. 43
First Law: You Can't Win	p. 43
Second Law: Nor Can You Break Even	p. 45
Seven: Cold Cuts: Go Fly a Kite!	p. 51
Storing Electricity	p. 56
Eight: Blueberry Muffins: Electricity in Matter	p. 63
a.c./d.c	p. 70
Nine: Apple Fritters and Love: Magnetic Forces	p. 76
Magnetic Fields	p. 80
What Maxwell Wrought	p. 86
Ten: Eggs and Crisp Bacon: Making Waves	p. 92
What Waves Can Do	p. 96
Eleven: Oat Meal with Light Cream: What is Light?	p. 105
How and What We See	p. 108
It's a Colorful World!	p. 116
Twelve: Lox and Bagels: What's the Speed of Light?	p. 121
Is It Really Relative?	p. 123
The Paradoxes of Relativity and Black Holes	p. 126
Thirteen: Farina: Does Anyone Believe in Quanta?	p. 132
What About Atoms?	p. 136
Fourteen: Danish Pastry: What's a Wave Function?	p. 146
Born and Heisenberg Have the Answer	p. 151
Fifteen: Waffles: Atoms Can Be Fun	p. 157
What Attracts Atoms to Each Other?	p. 165
Sixteen: O. J., Donuts, and Coffee: Surrounded by Fluids	p. 172
We Depend on Solids	p. 176
Seventeen: Rice Krispies: Who's Afraid of Radioactivity?	p. 180
What's Inside the Nucleus?	p. 184
For Better or For Worse - Nuclear Energy	p. 187
Our Nuclear Legacy	p. 198
Eighteen: Corn Fritters: A Mess of Particles	p. 202
What, More Conservation Laws?	p. 207
Quarks and More Quarks	p. 212
The GUTS of Physics	p. 218
Epilogue: What Lies Ahead? Searching for a Beginning	p. 222
Glossary of Physics Terms	p. 233
Acknowledgments	p. 243
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