Physics Over Easy: Breakfasts with Beth and Physics

During a sequence of meals, the author relates the principal features of physics in easy-to-understand conversations with his wife Beth. Beginning with the studies of motion by Galileo and Newton through to the revolutionary theories of relativity and quantum mechanics in the 20th century, all important aspects of electricity, energy, magnetism, gravity and the structure of matter and atoms are explained and illustrated. The second edition similarly recounts the more recent application of these theories to nanoparticles, Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum entanglement and quantum computers. By.

Preface; Introduction: What Keeps Us Going? Physicists, and Other People; Chapter One: Breakfast of Hard-Boiled Eggs with Inertia How It All Began -- with Rolling Balls; Chapter Two: Breakfast of Eggs Bene-Bricked What Keeps the Ball Rolling?; Chapter Three: Breakfast of Apple-Gravity Pancakes Why Does an Apple Fall From a Tree?; Chapter Four: Breakfast of Cereal and Calories But It Takes Energy to Keep Moving; Chapter Five: Breakfast of Hot Cakes with Energy How Hot is It? Putting Heat to Work.

Chapter Six: Breakfast of French Toast First Law: You Can't Win Second Law: Nor Can You Break EvenChapter Seven: Breakfast of Cold Cuts Go Fly a Kite! Storing Electricity; Chapter Eight: Breakfast of Blueberry Muffins Electricity in Matter a.c./d.c.; Chapter Nine: Breakfast of Apple Fritters and Love Magnetic Forces Magnetic Fields What Maxwell Wrought; Chapter Ten: Breakfast of Eggs and Crisp Bacon Making Waves What Waves Can Do; Chapter Eleven: Breakfast of Oat Meal with Light Cream What is Light? How and What We See It's a Colorful World!

Chapter Twelve: Breakfast of Lox and Bagels What's the Speed of Light? Is it Really Relative? The Paradoxes of Relativity and Black HolesChapter Thi…