Handy Answer: The Handy Physics Answer Book

Editor/Author Liu, Charles
Publication Year: 2021
Publisher: Visible Ink Press

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-57-859695-9
Category: Science - Physics
Image Count: 179
Book Status: Available
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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.

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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