The World According to Physics
1st Edition
Published on 6. April 2020
336 pages
978-0-691-20167-2 (ISBN)
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Jim Al-Khalili
The World According to Physics
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03/2020
Princeton University Press
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Jim Al-Khalili is professor of physics at the University of Surrey. He is one of Britain's best-known science communicators and has written numerous books, including Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed; The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance; and Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and lives in Southsea, England. Twitter @jimalkhalili
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Awe of Understanding
- 2. Scale
- 3. Space and Time
- 4. Energy and Matter
- 5. The Quantum World
- 6. Thermodynamics and the Arrow of Time
- 7. Unification
- 8. The Future of Physics
- 9. The Usefulness of Physics
- 10. Thinking like a Physicist
- Acknowledgments
- Further Reading
- Index
- About the Author
