Section I – Basics -- Preface -- Einstein Said -- Numbers -- Magic numbers -- Intro: Weird -- Metric system -- Exponentials -- Section II – Who Did it First? -- Preface -- China -- Greece -- Rome -- Islamic Science -- Section III – Modern Science and Engineering -- Preface -- Modern Science -- Blue/black sky -- Machines -- Lighter than Air Flight -- Electricity -- Robot Flight -- Jet Planes -- Rockets and Satellites -- Electromagnetic waves -- Electronics and Computers -- Biology -- Optics -- Lasers -- Nucleonics -- Section IV – Odds and Ends -- Religion -- Everything Else.This book explores and explains scientific mysteries and principles, leavened with tongue-in-cheek humor and an abundance of illustrations. Chapters are short, but give an understanding of technology and science not available elsewhere. Questions include: • What holds a satellite up while it goes around the Earth? • Why is the sky (made out of clear air!) blue instead of green, or just black as night like the sky that high altitude jumper Felix Baumgartner saw? • How is laser light different from “normal” light? • Did Columbus really discover that the Earth is round? • Which one invention will assuredly survive our civilization? • Why can’t you travel back in time? If you often feel embarrassed because you don’t have a clue about lasers, the difference between volts, amps and watts, or how jet planes really work – but you would like to understand the physical principles of our modern world, whether you’re a teen or a parent – this book is for you! To understand the basics of quantum mechanics, or of protons, neutrons and electrons, you don’t need algebra, calculus, or a lot of equations or technical buzzwords. Too many people have been soured on science by science teachers who have made simple concepts seem complex. This book is the antidote: all it requires is your curiosity. Advance praise for No Wonder You Wonder!: “From beginning to end, and with laugh after laugh, I en joyed every single word of this remarkable book. Phipps is a hell of a good writer, and the kind of physics teacher that I would have loved as a young student. No Wonder You Wonder can be engrossing for anyone with a bit of curiosity, not just the scientific minded.” – Christophe Bonnal, Chief Engineer, CNES (French Space Agency) “No Wonder You Wonder is a fa ntastic book. Covering topics such as space, matter, and the energy within the universe, this book does an excellent job of clarifying these topics. It's a great read for young scientists and aspiring physicists.” – August R., high school freshman.


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    Titel :

    No Wonder You Wonder! : Great Inventions and Scientific Mysteries


    Beteiligte:


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2016


    Format / Umfang :

    Online-Ressource (XVIII, 331 p. 289 illus., 233 illus. in color, online resource)




    Medientyp :

    Buch


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    RVK:    ZO 8050





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