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  title info:
    title: Physics curiosities, oddities, and novelties
  name:
    name part: KIMBALL, JOHN.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Taylor & Francis
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Popular works
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: Place of publication not identified]
    publisher: CRC Press
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: An Enlightening Way to Navigate through Mind-Boggling Physics ConceptsPhysics Curiosities, Oddities, and Novelties highlights unusual aspects of physics and gives a new twist to some fundamental concepts. The book covers both classical and modern physics in an engaging, straightforward style.The author presents perplexing questions that often lack satisfying answers. He also delves into the stories of famous and eccentric past scientists. Many examples reveal interesting ideas, including how:Newton had trouble determining the mass of the moonAn electric motor is an electric generator run in re.
  table of contents: Front Cover; Contents; Preface; About the Author; Chapter 1: Newton and Mechanics; Chapter 2: Momentum, Angular Momentum, and Energy; Chapter 3: Thermal Physics; Chapter 4: Electromagnetism; Chapter 5: Waves; Chapter 6: Quantum; Chapter 7: Materials and Devices; Chapter 8: Relativity; Chapter 9: Nucleus; Chapter 10: Particle Physics; Chapter 11: Nobel Laureates : A Short Summary; Annotated Bibliography; Back Cover
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Physique
    genre: Ouvrages de vulgarisation
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  classification: QC24.5
  classification: 530
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1003778610
  identifier: 9780429194238
  identifier: 0429194234
  identifier: 1138458155
  identifier: 9781138458154
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    record creation date: 190103
    record change date: 20241111204825.0
    record identifier: in00005528805
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng