Physics Over Easy
Breakfasts With Beth and Physics, 2nd Edition
by Leonid V. Azaroff
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Physics Over Easy
Does physics sometimes seem hard to digest? If so, you’ll find Physics Over Easy, Second Edition, quite nourishing. In a series of fun chapters, each of which recounts a separate breakfast with his wife Beth, Leonid V. Azároff relates to her—and to us—the principal features of physics in easy-to-understand language.
A morning meal of apple pancakes drenched in maple syrup, for example, brings Azároff to mind of the falling apple that, according to legend, inspired Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravitation. We then explore the tenets of that theory in some detail. On a separate morning, a meal of French toast reminds Azároff of how, while wrestling with the challenge of describing a perfect steam engine, a French military engineer named Sadi Carnot discovered the Second Law of Thermodynamics. He then describes this physical law, according to which the entropy of a closed system tends over time to approach a maximum value. And, on another occasion, lox and bagels—which Beth used to eat with her relatives—sets off a discussion of relativity, along with other modern physical notions of atoms, quanta, and the composition of solids, liquids and gases.
The second edition of this book describes new insights on nanoparticles, Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum entanglement and quantum computing. Azároff also shows how, by analyzing accurate measurements of the cosmic microwave background and supernovae, it is now possible to obtain an understanding of how the universe was formed in an inflationary Big Bang. He goes on to show how we have gained a much better picture of the life of stars and how they may turn into red giants, white dwarfs, neutrons stars, pulsars or black holes.
Probe fascinating concepts bit by bit and bite by bite in Physics Over Easy, Second Edition.
Hardcover : 288 pages
Publisher: World Scientific Publications ( July 29, 2010 )
Item #: 13-327269
ISBN: 9789814295444
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 9.1 inches
Product Weight: 20.0 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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