How to Speak Science by Benamran, Bruce -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Dedication Contents Foreword Introduction

0. Correlation and Causality 1. Models and Reality

Matter

2. Atoms 3. Good Old Science Dude: Dmitri Mendeleev 4. The Electron 5. The Nucleus of the Atom

Light

6. Is Light Made of Particles or Waves? 7. The Discovery of the Photoelectric Effect 8. First Detour: Heat 9. Second Detour: Black Bodies 10. Einstein in 1905: The First Article 11. Why Do They Turn Off Airplane Cabin Lights for Night Landings? 12. Why Is the Sky Blue and the Sun Yellow? 13. What Is a Rainbow? 14. How Many Senses Do Humans Have? 15. You Have Never Touched Anything in Your Life

Electromagnetism

16. Magnetism 17. Permanent Magnets 18. Electricity?! What Does That Have to Do with Anything? 19. Static Electricity 20. Electric Fields 21. Ampère, Gauss, Faraday, and Others . . . Right up to Maxwell 22. Maxwell’s Four Equations

The Solar System

23. The Sun 24. Stellar Nucleosynthesis 25. Formation of the Solar System 26. Mercury 27. Good Old Science Dude: Guillaume Le Gentil—Gentle Willy 28. Earth, the Goldilocks of the Solar System 29. The Earth Is Round 30. Good Old Science Dude: Eratosthenes 31. How Old Is the Earth? 32. Mars 33. The Missing Planet 34. Pallas, Juno, Vesta, and Everyone Else and Their Mother 35. Jupiter 36. The Jovian System 37. Saturn 38. Mimas, Enceladus, and Titan 39. Uranus and Neptune 40. Pluto, the Fallen Planet 41. Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud 42. The Dimensions of the Solar System

Classical Mechanics

43. The Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything 44. Aristotle and Impetus 45. Archimedes and the First Mechanics 46. Eureka, or the Golden Crown of Hiero II, Tyrant of Syracuse 47. Good Old Science Dude: Galileo, Part 1 48. Giordano Bruno, Punk Genius and Father of Relativity 49. Good Old Science Dude: Galileo, Part 2 50. Good Old Science Dude: Isaac Newton 51. Force, Couple, Torque, and Work 52. Momentum and Collisions 53. Angular Momentum

Life

54. You Are Alive 55. The Incredible Highways and Byways of the Body 56. In a Cell 57. The Incredible Things Your Brain Does All by Itself 58. Why Is Yawning Contagious? 59. Left-Handers 60. A Conclusion About Life?

Thermodynamics

61. So, What Is It? Do Tell. 62. Is the Cake Pan Hotter Than the Cake? 63. The First Steam Engine 64. Good Old Science Dude: Francis Bacon 65. Sadi Carnot, Father of Thermodynamics 66. The Three Laws of Thermodynamics 67. And Boltzmann? 68. Einstein in 1905: The Second Article

Special Relativity

69. To Move or Not to Move? That Is the Question 70. The Problem with Light 71. The Ether 72. Michelson’s Interferometer 73. The Electrostatic Problem 74. Lorentz and Poincaré 75. Einstein in 1905: The Third Article 76. A Problem with Clocks 77. The Problem with Two Lights 78. The Special Theory of Relativity

General Relativity

79. Newtonian Gravity 80. If a Roofer Fell Off a Roof 81. Equivalence Principle 82. Geometrization of Gravity 83. Non-Euclidean Space-Time 84. Better Together in 1913: Coauthoring an Article 85. Einstein in 1905: The Fourth Article 86. And Mercury Proves It 87. The General Theory of Relativity 88. Testing, Testing, 1-2-3 89. The Big Problem with Relativity and the Rest

Chronology of Scientists Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright Footnotes

Introduction Chapter 01 Chapter 02 Chapter 03 Chapter 04 Chapter 05 Chapter 06 Chapter 07 Chapter 08 Chapter 09