| Description |
527 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 518-525) and index. |
| Contents |
Setting the stage. 13.7 billion B.C. Big bang ; 3 billion B.C. Black diamonds ; 2 billion B.C. Prehistoric nuclear reactor -- The discoveries. 30,000 B.C. Atlatl ; 20,000 B.C. Boomerang ; 3000 B.C. Sundial ; 2500 B.C. Truss ; 1850 B.C. Arch ; 1000 B.C. Olmec compass ; 341 B.C. Crossbow ; 250 B.C. Siphon ; 250 B.C. Archimedes' principal of buoyancy ; 250 B.C. Archimedean screw ; 240 B.C. Eratosthenes measures the earth ; 230 B.C. Pulley ; 212 B.C. Archimedes' burning mirrors ; 125 B.C. Antikythera mechanism ; 50. Hero's jet engine ; 50. Gears ; 78. St. Elmo's fire ; 1132. Cannon ; 1150. Perpetual motion machine ; 1200. Trebuchet ; 1304. Explaining the rainbow ; 1338. Hourglass ; 1543. Sun-centered universe ; 1596. Mysterium Cosmographicum ; 1600. De Magnete ; 1608. Telescope ; 1609. Kepler's laws of planetary motion ; 1610. Discovery of Saturn's rings ; 1611. Kepler's "Six-cornered Snowflake" ; 1620. Triboluminescence ; 1621. Snell's law of refraction ; 1621. Aurora borealis ; 1638. Acceleration of falling objects ; 1643. Barometer ; 1644. Conservation of momentum ; 1660. Hooke's law of elasticity ; 1660. Von Guericke's electrostatic generator ; 1662. Boyles' gas law ; 1665. Micrographia ; 1669. Amontons' friction ; 1672. Newton's prism ; 1673. Tautochrone ramp ; 1687. Newton's laws of motion and gravitation ; 1687. Newton as inspiration ; 1711. Tuning fork ; 1728. Escape velocity ; 1738. Bernoulli's law of fluid dynamics ; 1744. Leyden jar ; 1752. Ben Franklin's kite ; 1761. Black drop effect ; 1766. Bode's law of planetary distances ; 1777. Lischtenberg figures ; 1779. Black eye galaxy ; 1783. Coulomb's law of electrostatics ; 1787. Charles' gas law ; 1796. Nebular hypothesis ; 1798. Cavendish weighs the earth ; 1800. Battery ; 1801. Wave nature of light ; 1803. Henry's gas law ; 1807. Fourier analysis ; 1808. Atomic theory ; 1811. Avogadro's gas law ; 1814. Fraunhofer lines ; 1814. Laplace's demon ; 1815. Brewster's optics ; 1816. Stethoscope ; 1822. Fourier's law of heat conduction ; 1823. Olbers' paradox ; 1824. Greenhouse effect ; 1824. Carnot engine ; 1825. Ampère's law of electromagnetism ; 1826. Rogue waves ; 1827. Ohm's law of electricity ; 1827. Brownian motion ; 1829. Graham's law of effusion ; 1831. Faraday's laws of induction ; 1834. Soliton ; 1835. Gauss and the magnetic monopole ; 1838. Stellar parallax ; 1839. Fuel cell ; 1840. Poiseuille's law of fluid flow ; 1840. Joule's law of electric heating ; 1841. Anniversary clock ; 1841. Fiber optics ; 1842. Doppler effect ; 1843. Conservation of energy ; 1844. I-beams ; 1845. Kirchhoff's circuit laws ; 1846. Discovery of Neptune ; 1850. Second law of thermodynamics ; 1850. Ice slipperiness ; 1851. Foucault's pendulum ; 1851. Stokes' law of viscosity ; 1852. Gyroscope ; 1852. Stokes' fluorescence ; 1857. Buys-Ballot's weather law ; 1859. Kinetic theory ; 1861. Maxwell's equations ; 1864. Electromagnetic spectrum ; 1866. Surface tension ; 1866. Dynamite ; 1867. Maxwell's demon ; 1868. Discovery of helium ; 1870. Baseball curveball ; 1871. Rayleigh scattering ; 1873. Crookes radiometer ; 1875. Boltzmann's entropy equation ; 1878. Incandescent light bulb ; 1879. Plasma ; 1879. Hall effect ; 1880. Piezoelectric effect ; 1880. War tubas ; 1882. Galvanometer ; 1882. Green flash ; 1887. Michelson-Morley experiment ; 1889. Birth of the kilogram ; 1889. Birth of the meter ; 1890. Eötvös' gravitational gradiometry ; 1891. Tesla coil ; 1892. Thermos ; 1895. X-rays ; 1895. Curies' magnetism law ; 1896. Radioactivity ; 1897. Electron ; 1898. Mass spectrometer ; 1900. Blackbody radiation law ; 1901. Clothoid loop ; 1903. Black light ; 1903. Tsiolkovsky rocket equation ; 1904. Lorentz transformation ; 1905. Special theory of relativity ; 1905. E=mc2 ; 1905. Photoelectric effect ; 1905. Golf ball dimples ; 1905. Third law of thermodynamics ; 1906. Vacuum tube ; 1908. Geiger counter ; 1909. Bremsstrahlung ; 1910. Cosmic rays ; 1911. Superconductivity ; 1911. Atomic nucleus ; |
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1911. Kármán vortex street ; 1911. Wilson cloud chamber ; 1912. Cepheid variables measure the universe ; 1912. Bragg's law of crystal diffraction ; 1913. Bohr atom ; 1913. Millikan oil drop experiment ; 1915. General theory of relativity ; 1919. String theory ; 1921. Einstein as inspiration ; 1922. Stern-Gerlach experiment ; 1923. Neon signs ; 1923. Compton effect ; 1924. De Broglie relation ; 1925. Pauli exclusion principle ; 1926. Shrödinger's wave equation ; 1927. Heisenberg uncertainty principle ; 1927. Complementarity principle ; 1927. Hypersonic whipcracking ; 1928. Dirac equation ; 1928. Quantum tunneling ; 1929. Hubble's law of cosmic expansion ; 1929. Cyclotron ; 1931. White dwarfs and Chandrasekhar limit ; 1931. Jacob's ladder ; 1932. Neutron ; 1932. Antimatter ; 1933. Dark matter ; 1933. Neutron stars ; 1934. Cherenkov radiation ; 1934. Sonoluminescence ; 1935. EPR paradox ; 1935. Schrödinger's cat ; 1937. Superfluids ; 1938. Nuclear magnetic resonance ; 1942. Energy from the nucleus ; 1943. Silly putty ; 1945. Drinking bird ; 1945. Little boy atomic bomb ; 1946. Stellar nucleosynthesis ; 1947. Transistor ; 1947. Sonic booms ; 1947. Hologram ; 1948. Quantum electrodynamics ; 1948. Tensegrity ; 1948. Casimir effect ; 1949. Time travel ; 1949. Radiocarbon dating ; 1950. Fermi paradox ; 1954. Solar cells ; 1955. Leaning tower of lire ; 1955. Seeing the single atom ; 1955. Atomic clocks ; 1956. Parallel universes ; 1956. Neutrinos ; 1956. Tokamak ; 1958. Integrated circuit ; 1959. Dark side of the moon ; 1960. Dyson sphere ; 1960. Laser ; 1960. Terminal velocity ; 1961. Anthropic principle ; 1961. Standard model ; 1962. Electromagnetic pulse ; 1963. Chaos theory ; 1963. Quasars ; 1963. Lava lamp ; 1964. The God particle ; 1964. Quarks ; 1964. CP violation ; 1964. Bell's theorem ; 1965. Super ball ; 1965. Cosmic microwave background ; 1967. Gamma-ray bursts ; 1967. Living in a simulation ; 1967. Tachyons ; 1967. Newton's cradle ; 1967. Metamaterials ; 1969. Unilluminable rooms ; 1971. Supersymmetry ; 1980. Cosmic inflation ; 1981. Quantum computers ; 1982. Quasicrystals ; 1984. Theory of everything ; 1985. Buckyballs ; 1987. Quantum immortality ; 1987. Self-organized criticality ; 1988. Wormhole time machine ; 1990. Hubble telescope ; 1992. Chronolgy protection conjecture ; 1993. Quantum teleportation; 1993. Stephen Hawking on Star Trek ; 1995. Bose-Einstein condensate ; 1998. Dark energy ; 1999. Randall-Sundrum branes ; 1999. Fastest tornado speed ; 2007. HAARP ; 2008. Blackest black ; 2009. Large hadron collider -- Closing the curtain. 36 billion Cosmological big rip ; 100 billion Cosmic isolation ; 100 trillion Universe fades ; >100 trillion Quantum resurrection. |
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Physics -- History.
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| ISBN |
9781402778612 hardcover alkaline paper $29.95 |
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9781402790997 (ebook) |
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1402778619 hardcover alkaline paper |
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