The Facts on File physics handbook (Facts on File, 2006)(ISBN 0816058806)

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Featuring easy-to-read and -understand chronologies, biographies, glossary entries, and charts, measurements, and formulas, students, teachers, and general readers will consider these books primary one-stop resources for quick answers to frequently asked science questions. Among the topics covered are: acceleration, boiling point, catalyst, electrolyte, gamma radiation, inertia, relative atomic mass, white dwarf, x-rays. Biographies include: Alexander Graham Bell, Pierre Curie, Christian Doppler, Albert Einstein, Euclid, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Hans William Geiger, Stephen Hawking. A multitude of tables, charts, and diagrams include: physical quantities, intensity and loudness, SI units, electrical and electronic circuit symbols, electromagnetic spectrum, types of energy, lenses, radioactivity.

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This physics handbook is one in a set of four, the other three on chemistry, earth science, and biology. As with all the volumes, this one is divided into four sections: a nicely illustrated glossary of terms, 50-100 word biographies of personalities from Thales to Andrew Wiles, chronologies of events (6,000 BCE-1993), and essential charts and tables. Of great use to high schoolers and undergraduates but of limited use beyond. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Featuring easy-to-read and -understand chronologies, biographies, glossary entries, charts, measurements, and formulas, students, teachers, and general readers will consider this volume a one-stop resource for quick answers to frequently asked questions about acceleration, boiling point, catalyst, electrolyte, gamma radiation, inertia, relative atomic mass, white dwarf, x-rays, and more. Containing over 1,300 glossary entries, this title offers students a view of a vital branch of science. It contains sections that include: 150 advances in physics; a list of Nobel Prize winners in physics, as well as their biographical information; the names, addresses and telephone numbers of 30 associations in the field of physics; and more. ISBN-13: 9780816058808 0816058806 1 Introduction 6 Contents 7 Section One: Glossary 8 Section Two: Biographies 156 Section Three: Chronology 208 Section Four: Key Advances 228 Section Five: Nobel Prize Winners 238 Section Six: Charts & Tables 250 Section Seven: Associations 258 Section Eight: Web Sites 262 Web Sites 263 Index 266 Uses chronologies, biographies, glossary entries, charts, measurements, and formulas to answer frequently asked questions about such subjects as acceleration, boiling point, gamma radiation, and inertia