Back-of-the-envelope physics / Clifford Swartz.

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Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
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Swartz, Clifford E.
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Physics > Miscellanea.
Format: Book
Back-of-the-envelope physics /

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245 1 0 |a Back-of-the-envelope physics /  |c Clifford Swartz. 
260 |a Baltimore :  |b Johns Hopkins University Press,  |c 2003. 
300 |a xvii, 155 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 22 cm. 
505 0 0 |t Note to the Reader: Units and Approximations --  |g Ch. 1.  |t Force and Pressure --  |t Bed of Nails --  |t Simple Thumbtack --  |t Horsepower --  |t Buoyancy in Air --  |t How Dense is the Ocean? --  |t Washbowls and Coriolis Force --  |t Points of Contact --  |t Atmospheric Force --  |t Weighing Your Car --  |t Well and Water Tower --  |t Pressure of Sunlight --  |t Squashed Tennis Ball --  |t Recoil --  |t Fatal Impulse --  |t Relative Gravitational Weakness --  |t Strong Fields --  |t Airplane Lift --  |g Ch. 2.  |t Mechanics and Rotation --  |t Terminal Velocity --  |t The Unlikely Game of Baseball --  |t Human Levers --  |t Angular Momentum --  |t The Twirling Skater --  |t Rotating Water Pail --  |t Grandfather Clock --  |t Arm and Leg Pendulums --  |t Precession of a Bicycle Wheel --  |t Car Springs --  |t Carousels and Rotors --  |t Banked Road --  |t Conical Pendulum --  |g Ch. 3.  |t Sounds and Waves --  |t Speed of Sound --  |t Tsunamis and Ripples --  |t Cold Flat Music --  |t Thunder and Lightning --  |t Wavelengths of Familiar Sounds --  |t Scales and Chords --  |t The Sound of Coke --  |t The Sensitive Ear --  |t [lambda] of Visible Light --  |t [lambda]v = c ; hv = E --  |t Trains and Doppler Shift --  |g Ch. 4.  |t Heat --  |t Human Heaters --  |t Negative Calorie Diet --  |t The Moral of the Tail --  |t Ice Skating --  |t Thermal Expansion --  |t Power Plant Efficiency --  |g Ch. 5.  |t Optics --  |t Microscope Constraints --  |t Binocular Size and Power --  |t Seeing under Water --  |t Candle Power --  |g Ch. 6.  |t Electricity --  |t Electrostatic Charge on a Balloon --  |t Capacitors --  |t Capacitance of Spheres --  |t Electric Field in a Wire --  |t Electron Drift Speed --  |t Unfamiliar Currents --  |t High Cost of Battery Electricity --  |t Magnet Strength --  |t Matching Earth's B Field --  |t Hanging Wire --  |t Energy Storage in L and C --  |t Jump-Rope Generator --  |t Q of a Crystal Radio --  |t E and B from a Lightbulb --  |t Toaster Power --  |t Magnetic Resonance Imaging --  |g Ch. 7.  |t Earth --  |t Radius of Earth --  |t Geography and Weight --  |t g(R) --  |t Height of Atmosphere --  |t Depth of Earth's Gravity Field --  |t Mountain Height --  |t Earth Orbits --  |t Escape Energy from Earth --  |t Precession of the Equinoxes --  |t Hole through the Earth --  |t Slowing of the Earth's Rotation --  |t Mass of Earth's Gravitational Field --  |g Ch. 8.  |t Astronomy --  |t Diameter of Sun and Moon --  |t Minimum Distance to Nearest Star --  |t Pressure of Sunlight --  |t How Many Photons to See a Faint Star? --  |t Fueling the Sun --  |t Age of the Elements --  |t The 21cm Line --  |t The Prodigal Sun --  |g Ch. 9.  |t Atoms and Molecules --  |t All Atoms Are (about) the Same Size --  |t Density of Air --  |t Molecular Spacing in a Gas --  |t Molar Energy --  |t Latent Heat of Fusion and Vaporization --  |t Surface Tension --  |t Binding Force between Atoms --  |t Atomic Spring Constant --  |g Ch. 10.  |t Particles and Quanta --  |t Uncertainties of Photons and Mesons --  |t Valence Electrons --  |t Can Electrons Reside in the Nucleus? --  |t Lucky Millikan --  |t Nuclear Repulsion --  |t Cyclotron --  |t Synchrotron - Loss and Gain --  |t Quantized Molecular Levels --  |t Molecular Rotation Energy. 
505 0 |a Chapter 1: Force and pressure -- Chapter 2: Mechanics and rotation -- Chapter 3: Sound and waves -- Chapter 4: Heat -- Chapter 5: Optics -- Chapter 6: Electricity -- Chapter 7: Earth -- Chapter 8: Astronomy -- Chapter 9: Atoms and molecules -- Chapter 10: Particles and quanta. 
650 0 |a Physics  |v Miscellanea. 
856 4 2 |3 Contributor biographical information  |u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/jhu051/2002016143.html  |t 0 
856 4 1 |3 Table of contents  |u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/jhu051/2002016143.html 
856 4 2 |3 Publisher description  |u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/jhu051/2002016143.html 
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