The Handy Physics Answer Book tackles big issues and concepts, like motion, magnetism, sound, and light, and lots of smaller topics too - like, why don't birds or squirrels on power lines get electrocuted? - and makes them enlightening and enjoyable for anyone who picks up this informative book.

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• PHYSICS FUNDAMENTALS
• FUNDAMENTALS
• MEASUREMENT
• CAREERS IN PHYSICS
• FAMOUS PHYSICISTS
• NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN PHYSICS
• MOTION AND FORCE
• MOTION AND FORCE FUNDAMENTALS
• ACCELERATION AND FORCE
• NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION
• FRICTION
• GRAVITY
• MOTION IN A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
• CIRCULAR AND ANGULAR MOTION
• STATICS
• CENTER OF GRAVITY
• MATERIALS FOR STRUCTURES
• BRIDGES
• SKYSCRAPERS
• MOMENTUM AND ENERGY
• MOMENTUM
• CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM
• ANGULAR MOMENTUM
• ENERGY
• CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
• POWER
• SIMPLE MACHINES
• FLUIDS
• WATER PRESSURE
• BLOOD PRESSURE
• ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
• BUOYANCY
• FLUID DYNAMICS
• AERODYNAMICS
• THE SOUND BARRIER
• THERMODYNAMICS
• THERMAL PHYSICS
• MEASURING TEMPERATURE
• ABSOLUTE TEMPERATURE
• STATES OF MATTER
• HEAT
• LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS
• WAVES
• WAVE FUNDAMENTALS
• WATER WAVES
• ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
• PUTTING INFORMATION ON ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
• MICROWAVES
• THE PRINCIPLE OF SUPERPOSITION
• RESONANCE AND IMPEDANCE
• SOUND
• HEARING
• ULTRASONICS AND INFRASONICS
• INTENSITY OF SOUND
• ACOUSTICS
• MUSIC
• NOISE POLLUTION
• THE DOPPLER EFFECT
• RADAR
• RADIO ASTRONOMY
• LIGHT AND OPTICS
• LIGHT
• THE SPEED OF LIGHT
• POLARIZATION OF LIGHT
• OPACITY AND TRANSPARENCY
• SHADOWS AND ECLIPSES
• REFLECTION
• MIRRORS AND IMAGES
• REFRACTION
• LENSES
• FIBER OPTICS
• DIFFRACTION
• COLOR
• RAINBOWS
• EYESIGHT
• CAMERAS
• TELESCOPES
• ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
• ELECTRICITY
• STATIC ELECTRICITY
• CAPACITORS
• VAN DE GRAAFF GENERATORS
• LIGHTNING
• LIGHTNING SAFETY
• ELECTRIC CURRENT
• SUPERCONDUCTORS
• ELECTRICAL SAFETY
• ELECTRIC POWER
• CIRCUITS
• AC/DC
• ELECTRICAL OUTLETS
• SERIES AND PARALLEL CIRCUITS
• MAGNETISM
• EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD
• ELECTROMAGNETISM
• ATOMIC AND QUANTUM PHYSICS
• MATTER, ATOMS AND ELECTRONS
• THE NUCLEUS
• RADIOACTIVE DECAY
• ANTIMATTER
• NUCLEAR FISSION
• NUCLEAR FUSION
• QUANTUM PHYSICS
• ATOMICS PECTROSCOPY
• QUANTUM MECHANICS
• THE STANDARD MODEL OF MATTER
• PHYSICS FRONTIERS
• DARK MATTER
• DARK ENERGY
• QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT
• NANOPHYSICS
• STRING THEORY
• THEORIES OF EVERYTHING
• THE BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSE
• THE MULTIVERSE
• PHYSICS OF THE MIND
• BLACK HOLES AND THE END OF TIME
• FURTHER READING
• GLOSSARY
• SYMBOLS