The wonders of physics / L.G. Aslamazov, A.A. Varlamov ; scientific editor, A.A. Abrikosov, Jr. ; translators, A.A. Abrikosov, Jr. & D. Znamenski

Author: Aslamazov, L. G. (Lev Grigorʹevich)
Uniform Title: Udivitelʹnai͡a fizika. English
Published: Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, [2004]
Copyright Date: ©2004
Edition: 2nd ed.
Physical Description: xii, 273 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Varlamov, A. A. (Andreĭ Andreevich) and Abrikosov, A. A. (Alekseĭ Alekseevich)

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Contents

pt. 1. Outdoor physics -- Meandering down to the sea -- Rivers from lakes -- The oceanic phone booth -- In the blue -- The moon-glades -- The Fucault [sic] pendulum and the Baer law -- The moon-brake -- pt. 2. Saturday night physics -- Why the violin sings -- The chiming and silent goblets -- The bubble and the droplet -- The mysteries of the magic lamp -- Waiting for the tea-kettle to boil -- Craving microwaved mammoth -- Ab(out) ovo -- The physics of good coffee -- "Nunc est bibendum" : physicists talk around glasses of wine -- The water mike -- How the waves transmit information -- Why the electric power lines are droning -- The footprints on the sand -- How to prevent snowdrifts -- The incident in the train -- pt. 3. Windows to the quantumworld -- The uncertainty principle -- On the snowballs, nuts, bubbles and ... liquid helium -- Superconductivity passion at the end of the millennium -- What is a SQUID? -- Superconducting magnets.

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Physics—Popular works

ISBN

9812560564

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