No wonder you wonder! : great inventions and scientific mysteries /: great inventions and scientific mysteries. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Claude Phipps ; illustrations by Friedelwolf Wicke.
• Authors: Phipps, Claude
• Other Names: Wicke, Friedelwolf illustrator.
• Contents: Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; In Praise of No Wonder You Wonder!; Part I: Basics; Preface; Who Am I?; What is Science and What is Not?; Einstein Said ... ; Do You Care?; Moral and Scientific Issues; Numbers; Mental Blackboard; Magic Numbers; Introduction: Weird Reality; The Big Bang: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and ... Stuff; What Is Stuff?; Gravity; Inertia; Relativity at Low Speeds: Kinetic Energy; Relativity at High Speeds; Time Travel; Backward Time Travel; Forward Time Travel; Teleportation; Quantum Mechanics: Weirdness on a Small Scale; Electromagnetic Waves. Quantum Erasers: True Weirdness Entangled Photons: More Weirdness; Uncertainty; Superconductivity; Zero Point Energy (ZPE); Black Holes; 4D Ghost Stories; Cutting World; Conclusion; The Metric System; Exercise; Conclusion; Exponentials and Instabilities; Instability; People Instabilities; Conclusions; Part II: Who Really Did It First?; Goals; Chinese Science and Art; Gunpowder!; Printing; Navies and Voyages; Silk!; Conclusion; Space Geometry from Ancient Greece to Today; Venus Transit: A Side Story that is Not Greek; Conclusion; Rome; Concrete; Roman Roads. Roman Text Messages "All Roads Lead to Rome"; Pont du Gard; Conclusion; Islamic Science and Art; Ibn Sahl; Ibn Al Haytham; Ibn Musa al Kwarizmi; Astrolabe and Astronomy; Al-Biruni; Al-Razi; Omar Khayyam; Translating Scientific and Philosophical Works; Conclusions; Part III: Modern Science and Engineering; Modern Science; Kepler and Newton; Einstein; Special Relativity; General Relativity: The Final Weirdness; Conclusion; Why Is the Day Sky Blue? Why Is the Night Sky Black?; J.C. Maxwell; Dark Night Skies; Aurorae; Conclusion; Machines; Force Multipliers. External Combustion Engines Industrial Revolution; Carnot and Power Generation; Improvements; Stirling Engine; Steam Turbines; Internal Combustion Engine Zoo; Otto Cycle; Wankel Cycle; Radial Engine; Diesel; Hybrid; Tesla; Turbine Engines for Cars; The Differential; Windmills and Renewable Energy; Inverse Machines, the Servel and Liquid Helium; Electric and Laser Refrigerators; The Self-Replicating Machine; Other Machines; Conclusions; Lighter Than Air Flight; Hot Air Balloons; Gas-Filled Balloons; Dirigibles; Helium, in Texas?; High-Altitude Helium Balloons. Distance Records Spying; Conclusions; Electricity; Volts, Ohms, Amps, and Watts; Voltage: Hazardous?; Resistance; Power; Transformers; Tesla and the First Wireless; Birds on a Wire; Different Hazard If It's High Frequency; AC and DC; Transformers; Experiment; How Do You Use Electricity?; DC Motors; AC/DC Motors; AC Motors; AC Synchronous Motor; Induction Motor; How Do You Make Electricity?; Batteries; Solar Cells; Generators; Faraday's Homopolar Machine; Experiment; Electromagnetic Tethers; The Earth Dynamo; Lightning!; Experiment: Liquid Van de Graaf; Sprites.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 331 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 500; Popular works; Science -- Popular works; Inventions -- Popular works; Science -- History; Inventions -- History; Astronautics; SCIENCE -- Essays; SCIENCE -- Reference; Inventions; Science; Technology & Engineering -- Aeronautics & Astronautics; Science -- Physics; Aerospace & aviation technology; History of science; Physics; Electronic books; History; Popular works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319216805; 3319216805
• Related ISBNs: 9783319216799; 3319216791
• Notes: Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.