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From the dust jacket: "In50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know , author Joanne Baker describes, in a sequence of 50 clear and concise essays, the discover, significance and functioning of the laws, principles and theories t hat govern the workings of our physical 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 Planck's law to Pauli's exclusion principle and from Schrödinger's cat to string theory. The essays are accompanied by a range of useful editorial features, including biographies of iconic physicists, timelines of related ideas, explanatory diagrams and display quotations.
"Lucid, readable and accessible, 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know is the perfect introduction to modern physics for the non-specialist, from a writer with a real gift for making its most complex and challenging concepts readily comprehensible to the layperson."
