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47 pages : colour illustrations.
Quantum physics
Contents: Sir Isaac Newton -- What we can do with physics -- Planck's quanta -- The mystery of light -- Maxwell and light waves -- Einstein and light -- Photons -- Waves or particles? -- The structure of the atom -- The atom -- The periodic table -- Molecules -- Atomic spectra -- The quantized atom -- The double-slit experiment -- Matter waves -- Schrodinger's cat -- The uncertainty principle -- The mystery of antimatter -- Quantum entanglement -- Radioactivity -- The tunnel effect -- Elementary particles -- Things we do everyday using modern physics -- Things that we will do someday using modern physics -- Quantum timeline -- A mathematical universe.
Summary: The world of quantum physics is an amazing place, where quantum particles can do weird and wonderful things, acting totally unlike the objects we experience in day-to-day life. How can atoms exist in two places at once? And just how can a cat be dead and alive at the same time? Find out more with this entertaining illustrated guide to the fascinating, mysterious world of quantum physics.