50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

In 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know author Joanne Baker describes, in a sequence of 50 clear and concise essays, the discovery, significance and functioning of the laws, principles and theories that govern the workings of our universe. As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Kepler's law of planetary motion and Newton's law of gravitation, Joanne Baker unravels the sometimes baffling complexities of modern scientific theory - from black holes to the Higgs boson and from Schrödinger's cat to string theory. The essays are accompanied by a range of useful features, including biographies of iconic physicists, timelines of related ideas, explanatory diagrams and quotations. Lucid, readable and accessible, i>50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know is the perfect introduction to quantum theory, relativity and all of modern physics for the non-specialist, from a writer with a real gift for making its most complex and challenging concepts readily comprehensible to all.