50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know
$28.98
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2014
Summary
We encounter physics before we’ve even left the house in the morning; an alarm clock tracks time, a mirror reflects light waves and our mobile phones rely on satellites held in their orbit by gravity.
Where would we be without the Bernoulli equation to explain how planes fly, electromagnetic waves enabling us to communicate around the world or the discovery of X-rays? In 50 PHYSICS IDEAS YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW, Joanne Baker will uncover the physics all around us, from basic concepts …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848667068 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184866706X |
| Author: | Joanne Baker |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 533g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 180mm x 30mm |
| Series: | 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series |
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About The Author
Joanne Baker
Joanne Baker studied Physics at Cambridge and took her PhD at the University of Sydney in 1995. She is a physical science editor at Science magazine, where her speciality is space and earth science. She has also written Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know for Quercus.
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