In 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.
From Amazon.co.uk50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know unravels the complexities of 20th-century scientific theory for a general readership. From Hubble’s law to Pauli’s exclusion principle and from Schrodinger’s cat to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, Joanne Baker explains ideas at the cutting-edge of scientific enquiry, making them comprehensible and accessible to everyone.
From MurdochBooks.com.auThe ideas covered in the book are as follows:
- Mach's principle
- Fraunhofer diffraction
- Nuclear fission
- Newton's laws of motion
- Doppler effect
- Nuclear fusion
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Ohm's Law
- Feynman diagram
- Newton's laws of gravitation
- Fleming's right-hand rule
- The God particle
- Conservation of energy
- Maxwell's equations
- String theory
- Simple harmonic motion
- Planck's law
- Special relativity
- Hooke's law
- Photoelectric effect
- General relativity
- Ideal gas law
- Schrödinger's wave equation
- Black holes
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
- Olber's paradox
- Absolute zero
- Copenhagen interpretation
- Hubble's law
- Brownian motion
- Schrödinger's cat
- The Big Bang
- Chaos
- Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox
- Inflation
- Bernouilli equation
- Pauli exclusion principle
- Dark matter
- Newton's theory of colour
- Superconductivity
- Dark energy
- Huygen's principle
- Rutherford's model of the atom
- Fermi Paradox
- Snell's law
- Antimatter
- Anthropic principle
- Bragg's law
- The standard model of particle physics
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