Instant Science

Key thinkers, theories, discoveries and concepts explained on a single page

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Instant Science pulls together all the pivotal scientific knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in an instant. From Copernicus to Curie, gravity to climate change, atom bombs to the International Space Station, every key figure, discovery or invention is explained with succinct and lively text and graphics. Perfect for the knowledge hungry and time poor, this collection of graphic-led lessons makes science interesting and accessible. Everything you need to know is here.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-03
Mått:182 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Headline Publishing Group
ISBN:9781787393387

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Jennifer Crouch co-founded the Art/Physics collective Jiggling Atoms. She has worked with anatomists at Saint George's University, the Gordon Museum of Pathology, with entomologists at the Natural History Museum and physicists at Queen Mary University and UCL.

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Copernicus • Galileo Galilei • Ada Lovelace • Isaac Newton • Charles Darwin • Marie Curie • Albert Einstein • Nikola Tesla • Rosalind Franklin • Stephen Hawking • Jocelyn Bell Burnell • Tim Berners-Lee • Gravity • Tides • Particles • Elements and the periodic table • Light • Sound • Optics • Electricity • Antibiotics • Comets and meteors • The solar system • The Universe • The Big Bang • Hubble's Law of cosmic expansion • Keplar's Law of planetary motion • Newton's Laws of motion • Archimedes' Buoyancy Principle (Eureka!) • Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle • Thermodynamics • Radioactivity • Relativity • Quantum theory • Evolution and natural selection • Chaos theory • The Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio • DNA and the genome • Genetically modified organisms • Stem cells • Cloning • Flight • Semiconductors • Climate change • The atom bomb • The International Space Station • Megastructures • The Internet • Big data • 3D printing • Geometry: angles • Identifying metals.