Baker J. 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

Quercus Publishing Inc., New York, 2007. — 173 p. — ISBN: 1847240070In this, the second volume in an important new series presenting core concepts across a range of critical areas of human knowledge, author Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of 20th-century scientific theory for a general readership. She explains ideas at the cutting-edge of scientific enquiry, making them comprehensible and accessible to the layperson.Matter in Motion
01 Mach’s principle
02 Newton’s laws of motion
03 Kepler’s laws
04 Newton’s law of gravitation
05 Conservation of energy
06 Simple harmonic motion
07 Hooke’s law
08 Ideal gas law
09 Second law of thermodynamics
10 Absolute zero
11 Brownian motion
12 Chaos theory
13 Bernoulli equation
Beneath the Waves
14 Newton’s theory of color
15 Huygens’ principle
16 Snell’s law
17 Bragg’s law
18 Fraunhofer diffraction
19 Doppler effect
20 Ohm’s law
21 Fleming’s right hand rule
22 Maxwell,s equations
Quantum Conundrums
23 Planck’s law
24 Photoelectric effect
25 Schrödinger’s wave equation
26 Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
27 Copenhagen interpretation
28 Schrödinger’s cat
29 The EPR paradox
30 Pauli’s exclusion principle
31 Superconductivity
Splitting Atoms
32 Rutherford’s atom
33 Antimatter
34 Nuclear fission
35 Nuclear fusion
36 Standard model
37 Feynman diagrams
38 The God particle
39 String theory
Space and Time
40 Special relativity
41 General relativity
42 Black holes
43 Olbers’ paradox
44 Hubble’s law
45 The big bang
46 Cosmic inflation
47 Dark matter
48 Cosmological constant
49 Fermi paradox
50 Anthropic principle