Quips, quotes and quanta: an anecdotal history of physics (2nd edition) Paperback - 2011
by Z, Capri Anton
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- Title Quips, quotes and quanta: an anecdotal history of physics (2nd edition)
- Author Z, Capri Anton
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd Revised edit
- Condition UsedVeryGood
- Pages 252
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher World Scientific Publishing Company
- Date 2011-06-02
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3TWOWA00174N
- ISBN 9789814343473 / 9814343471
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011001516
- Dewey Decimal Code 530.09
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From the jacket flap
When a young boy tried to visualize how a beam of light would look like by riding alongside it at the same speed, he began thinking along lines that eventually changed our views of space and time.
When a student caught hay fever and went to recover on Heligoland, he started a major revolution in physics. These are but just some of the stories covered in this entertaining book that deals with the history of physics from the end of the 19th-century to about 1930.
Quips, Quotes and Quanta (2nd Edition) is unique in that it contains anecdotes on physicists creating new ideas. Often the thinking of the creators of what is now called "modern physics" is revealed through quotes. Thematic and biographical in nature, this book also includes many personal incidents.
This second edition has been revised to include new material: a prologue, epilogue, glossary and chronology, and photograph's as well as additional quotes and anecdotes.
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 10/01/2011, Page 220