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Order from force
Title statement Order from force : a natural history of the vacuum / Jeffrey H. Williams. [elektronický zdroj] Publication San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2015] Distribution Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2015] Phys.des. 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color). ISBN 9781681742410 (online) 9781681741130 mobi Edition [IOP release 2] IOP concise physics, ISSN 2053-2571 Note "Version: 20151101"--Title page verso. "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso. Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note Includes bibliographical references. Contents Preface -- Author biography -- 1. Science, science fiction and science fantasy -- 1.1. Setting the scene -- 1.2. How should we look at nature? Asking the right question -- 1.3. The innocence of youth Content note 2. Complexity -- 3. Materialism : what is there between atoms and molecules? -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Solid objects are mostly empty space -- 3.3. The scale of nothing : what and where is the hard-stuff?. 4. What exactly is the vacuum? The static or classical interpretation -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Action at a distance -- 4.3. Defining nothing -- 4.4. The vacuum : the ancient world -- 4.5. Some ancient physics with a modern twist : Archimedes' principle -- 4.6. The vacuum : the early modern world. 5. Some basics -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The currency and language of science -- 5.3. Creating expressions in the language of science -- 5.4. What makes the world go 'round? -- 5.5. Daring to know -- 5.6. Types of energy -- 5.7. Force -- 5.8. Electromagnetism -- 5.9. Power. 6. Investigating nature -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. The mechanics of breathing -- 6.3. How we view the natural world -- 6.4. Quantum mechanics -- 6.5. Complementarity -- 6.6. The uncertainty principle of Heisenberg. 7. Generating order and system -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. The polarization of light waves -- 7.3. The fluctuating vacuum : the classical nothing becomes something -- 7.4. There is still enchantment in physics -- 7.5. Quantum field fluctuations in the vacuum -- 7.6. Fluctuations. 8. The forces of nature -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Some early history -- 8.3. Gravity -- 8.4. Electromagnetism -- 8.5. Nuclear forces -- 8.6. Some recent developments. 9. Intermolecular forces -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Something ideal -- 9.3. Quantifying ideal behaviour : the gas laws -- 9.4. Ballooning -- 9.5. Something closer to reality -- 9.6. The van der Waals force -- 9.7. Forces on the small and on the large scale -- 9.8. Representing the forces between molecules -- 9.9. London dispersion force -- 9.10. Earnshaw's theorem -- 9.11. The local field effect. 10. Aspects of the private life of a liquid -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Water : the least ideal of fluids -- 10.3. Hydrogen bonding -- 10.4. The mechanical properties of water -- 10.5. The contribution of water to solutions -- 10.6. Clathrates. 11. Order and complexity -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. A classification -- 11.3. Packing of spheres -- 11.4. The packing of less-perfect, but real shapes (molecules) -- 11.5. The origin of order. 12. 'For all that moveth, doth in change delight' -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Melting -- 12.3. The fate of a snowflake. Notes to Availability Přístup pouze pro oprávněné uživatele Audience Students of physics at all levels. Note Způsob přístupu: World Wide Web.. Požadavky na systém: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Another responsib. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, Institute of Physics (Great Britain), Subj. Headings Physics. * SCIENCE / Physics / General. * Classical Mechanics. Form, Genre elektronické knihy electronic books Country Kalifornie Language angličtina Document kind Electronic books URL Plný text pro studenty a zaměstnance UPOL 
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The present theme concerns the forces of nature, and what investigations of these forces can tell us about the world we see about us. The story of these forces is long and complex, and contains many episodes that are not atypical of the bulk of scientific research, which could have achieved greater acclaim 'if only ...'. The intention of this book is to introduce ideas of how the visible world, and those parts of it that we cannot observe, either because they are too small or too large for our scale of perception, can be understood by consideration of only a few fundamental forces. The subject in these pages will be the authority of the commonly termed, laws of physics, which arise from the forces of nature, and the corresponding constants of nature (for example, the speed of light, c, the charge of the electron, e, or the mass of the electron, me). The laws of physics govern our lives, and the constants of nature define our very morphology. The precise distances and orientations between the molecules of which our bodies are composed are determined by subtle intermolecular electromagnetic forces, whose magnitude is determined by the various constants of nature, and whose operation is dictated by the laws of physics. We are merely living representations of these immutable physical laws.
Preface -- Author biography -- 1. Science, science fiction and science fantasy -- 1.1. Setting the scene -- 1.2. How should we look at nature? Asking the right question -- 1.3. The innocence of youth2. Complexity -- 3. Materialism : what is there between atoms and molecules? -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Solid objects are mostly empty space -- 3.3. The scale of nothing : what and where is the hard-stuff?4. What exactly is the vacuum? The static or classical interpretation -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Action at a distance -- 4.3. Defining nothing -- 4.4. The vacuum : the ancient world -- 4.5. Some ancient physics with a modern twist : Archimedes' principle -- 4.6. The vacuum : the early modern world5. Some basics -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The currency and language of science -- 5.3. Creating expressions in the language of science -- 5.4. What makes the world go 'round? -- 5.5. Daring to know -- 5.6. Types of energy -- 5.7. Force -- 5.8. Electromagnetism -- 5.9. Power6. Investigating nature -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. The mechanics of breathing -- 6.3. How we view the natural world -- 6.4. Quantum mechanics -- 6.5. Complementarity -- 6.6. The uncertainty principle of Heisenberg7. Generating order and system -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. The polarization of light waves -- 7.3. The fluctuating vacuum : the classical nothing becomes something -- 7.4. There is still enchantment in physics -- 7.5. Quantum field fluctuations in the vacuum -- 7.6. Fluctuations8. The forces of nature -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Some early history -- 8.3. Gravity -- 8.4. Electromagnetism -- 8.5. Nuclear forces -- 8.6. Some recent developments9. Intermolecular forces -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Something ideal -- 9.3. Quantifying ideal behaviour : the gas laws -- 9.4. Ballooning -- 9.5. Something closer to reality -- 9.6. The van der Waals force -- 9.7. Forces on the small and on the large scale -- 9.8. Representing the forces between molecules -- 9.9. London dispersion force -- 9.10. Earnshaw's theorem -- 9.11. The local field effect10. Aspects of the private life of a liquid -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Water : the least ideal of fluids -- 10.3. Hydrogen bonding -- 10.4. The mechanical properties of water -- 10.5. The contribution of water to solutions -- 10.6. Clathrates11. Order and complexity -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. A classification -- 11.3. Packing of spheres -- 11.4. The packing of less-perfect, but real shapes (molecules) -- 11.5. The origin of order12. 'For all that moveth, doth in change delight' -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Melting -- 12.3. The fate of a snowflake.
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