Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780385247962
- 0385247966
Edition: First edition.
Description: xix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-282) and index.
Contents:
- Scientific literacy: What it is, why it's important, and why we don't have it
- Knowing: Universe is regular and predictable
- Energy: Energy is conserved and always goes from more useful to less useful forms
- Electricity and magnetism: Electricity and magnetism are two aspects of the same force
- Atom: All matter is made of atoms
- World of the quantum: Everything comes in discrete units and you can't measure anything without changing it
- Chemical bonding: Atoms are bound by electron glue
- Atomic architecture: Way a material behaves depends on how its atoms are arranged
- Nuclear physics: Nuclear energy comes from the conversion of mass
- Particle physics: all matter is really made of quarks and leptons.
LCCN: 90003786
Control Number: 36088
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [1991]Subjects: Science -- Popular works.
Other Authors: Trefil, James, 1938-