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100 | 1 | _aMontwill, Alex. | |
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_aLet there be light : _bthe story of light from atoms to galaxies / _cAlex Montwill & Ann Breslin. |
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_aLondon : _bImperial College Press ; _aSingapore ; _aHackensack, NJ : _bDistributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., _cc2008. |
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_axxxiii, 595 p. : _bill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; _c24 cm. |
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504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
505 | 0 | _aIntroducing light -- Geometrical optics : reflection -- Geometric optics : refraction -- Light from afar : astronomy -- Light from the past : astrophysics -- Introducing waves -- Sound waves -- Light as a wave -- Making images -- There was electricity, there was magneticism, and then there was light-- -- 'Atoms of light' : the birth of quantum theory -- The development of quantum mechanics -- Atoms of light acting as particles -- Atoms of light behaving as waves -- Relativity part 1 : how it began -- Relativity part 2 : verifiable predictions -- Epilogue. | |
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_aLight _vPopular works. |
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650 | 0 | _aElectromagnetic waves. | |
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_aPhysics _xHistory. |
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700 | 1 | _aBreslin, Ann. | |
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