Everything around us – trees, buildings, food, light, water, air and even ourselves – is composed of minute particles, smaller than a nanometer (a billionth of a meter). Quantum physics is the science of these particles and without it none of our electronic devices, from smartphones to computers and microwave ovens, would exist.
But quantum physics also pushes us to the very boundaries of what we know about science, reality and the structure of the universe. 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.
Topics include: quanta, light, waves and particles, mass, photons, atoms, molecules, spectra, wave-particle duality, matter and antimatter, Schr dinger’s cat, the Uncertainty Principle, probability waves, quantum entanglement, radioactivity and quarks.
Author: Sheddad Kaid-Salah Ferrón
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Button Books
Published: 08/01/2018
Series: My First Book of Science
Pages: 48
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.90h x 9.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781787080133
Language: English
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