Asimov Isaac. Asimov on Physics

Doubleday, 1976. — 254 p. — ISBN 978-0380418480, 0385009585.Seventeen essays on the laws of nature selected from Isaac Asimov’s earlier articles on physics, now updated and enhanced with new photographs and captions.
Here is Asimov true to form: getting an idea for something new in science and hypothesizing how to
make split seconds more visible; deciphering the concept of entropy (with an analogy to Shakespeare thrown in!); discussing degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius and speculating what the highest real temperature might be; coming to terms with the most tantalizing enigma of nuclear physics
—the discovery of the muon.
Whether explaining nuclear forces at work within the atomic nucleus, electromagnetic forces that bind the atom itself, gravitational forces that move the heavens, or tracing the history of scientific concepts from Aristotle to Galileo and Newton through Planck and Einstein, Asimov demonstrates anew why he is regarded as something of a natural wonder himself.Introduction
Thin Air
Now Hear This!
Catching Up with Newton
Of Capture and Escape
First and Rearmost
The Rigid Vacuum
The Light That Failed
The Light Fantastic
C for Celeritas
The Ultimate Split of the Second
The Height of Up
Order! Order!
The Modern Demonology
A Piece of the Action
The Certainty of Uncertainty
Behind the Teacher’s Back
The Land of Mu
Index