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The wonders of physics / L.G. Aslamazov, A.A. Varlamov ; scientific editor, A.A. Abrikosov, Jr. ; translators, A.A. Abrikosov, Jr. & D. Znamenski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aslamazov, L. G. (Lev Grigorʹevich)
- Standardized Title:
- Udivitelʹnai͡a fizika. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--Popular works.
- Physics.
- Physical sciences--Popular works.
- Physical sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book develops the best traditions of this kind of scientific literature. Written by working theoretical physicists who are at the same time dedicated popularizers of scientific knowledge, the book is clear and captivating in style. It brings to the reader the latest achievements of quantum solid-state physics; but on the way it shows how the laws of physics reveal themselves even in trivial (at first sight) episodes and natural phenomena around us. And what is most important, it portrays the world through the eyes of scientists, "proving the harmony by algebra". Contents: Outdoor Physics:
- Contents:
- Preface; Contents; Part I Outdoor Physics; Chapter 1 Meandering Down to the Sea; Chapter 2 Rivers from Lakes; Chapter 3 The Oceanic Phone Booth; Chapter 4 In the Blue; Chapter 5 The Moon-Glades; Chapter 6 The Fucault Pendulum and the Baer Law; Chapter 7 The Moon-Brake; Part II Saturday Night Physics; Chapter 8 Why the Violin Sings; Chapter 9 The Chiming and Silent Goblets; Chapter 10 The Bubble and the Droplet; Chapter 11 The Mysteries of the Magic Lamp; Chapter 12 Waiting for the Tea-Kettle to Boil; Chapter 13 Craving Microwaved Mammoth; Chapter 14 The Water Mike
- Chapter 15 How the Waves Transmit InformationChapter 16 Why the Electric Power Lines are Droning; Chapter 17 The Footprints on the Sand; Chapter 18 How to Prevent Snowdrifts; Chapter 19 The Incident in the Train; Part III Windows to the Quantum World; Chapter 20 The Uncertainty Relation; Chapter 21 On the Snowballs, Nuts, Bubbles and . . . Liquid Helium; Chapter 22 The Superconductivity Passion at the End of the Millenium; Chapter 23 What is SQUID?; Chapter 24 The Superconducting Magnets; Afterword
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611960735
- 9781281960733
- 128196073X
- 9789812811790
- 9812811796
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