Azaroff L.V. Physics Over Easy: Breakfasts With Beth and Physics

2nd Edition, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2010, 288 pages, ISBN: 9814295450, 9814295442During a sequence of meals, the author relates the principal features of physics in easy-to-understand conversations with his wife Beth. Beginning with the studies of motion by Galileo and Newton through to the revolutionary theories of relativity and quantum mechanics in the 20th century, all important aspects of electricity, energy, magnetism, gravity and the structure of matter and atoms are explained and illustrated.The second edition similarly recounts the more recent application of these theories to nanoparticles, Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum entanglement and quantum computers. By including accurate measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background and supernovae in near and distant galaxies, an understanding of how the universe was formed in an Inflationary Big Bang is now possible. We've also gained a much better picture of the life of stars and how they may turn into red giants, white dwarfs, black holes, neutron stars or pulsars.What Keeps Us Going? Physicists and Other People
Breakfast of HardBoiled Eggs with Inertia How It All Began with Rolling Balls
Breakfast of Eggs BeneBricked What Keeps the Ball Rolling?
Breakfast of AppleGravity Pancakes Why Does an Apple Fall From a Tree?
Breakfast of Cereal and Calories But It Takes Energy to Keep Moving
Breakfast of Hot Cakes with Energy How Hot is It? Putting Heat to Work
Breakfast of French Toast First Law You Cant Win Second Law Nor Can You Break Even
Breakfast of Cold Cuts Go Fly a Kite Storing Electricity
Breakfast of Blueberry Muffins Electricity in Matter acdc
Breakfast of Apple Fritters and Love Magnetic Forces Magnetic Fields What Maxwell Wrought
Breakfast of Eggs and Crisp Bacon Making Waves What Waves Can Do
Breakfast of Oat Meal with Light Cream What is Light? How and What We See Its a Colorful World
Breakfast of Lox and Bagels Whats the Speed of Light? Is it Really Relative? The Paradoxes of Relativity and Black Holes
Breakfast of Farina Does Anyone Believe in Quanta? What About Atoms?
Breakfast of Danish Pastry Whats a Wave Function? Born and Heisenberg Have the Answer
Breakfast of Waffles Atoms Can Be Fun What Attracts Atoms to Each Other?
Breakfast of O J Donuts and Coffee Surrounded by Fluids We Depend on Solids
Breakfast of Rice Krispies Whos Afraid of Radioactivity? Whats Inside the Nucleus? For Better or For Worse Nuclear Energy Our Nuclear Legacy
Breakfast of Corn Fritters A Mess of Particles What More Conservation Laws? Quarks and More Quarks The GUTS of Physics
Dinner at Home Einstein Centennial A Promising Nanotechnology Quantum Entanglement Quantum Computers
Lunch at the Beach BoseEinstein Condensates
Lunch at Venetian Bay Our Energy Problems Energy Wastes The Good News about Nukes
Breakfast at the Beach How It All Began Cosmic Microwave Background Big Bang Inflationary Universe Probing the Cosmic Microwave Background
Dinner Under the Stars The Stars in Heaven Red Giants and White Dwarfs
After Dinner at Home Supernovae and Neutron Stars Black Holes Supernovae as Standard Candles
Glossary of Physics Terms