Quips, quotes and quanta : An anecdotal history of physics (Record no. 13413)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789814343473 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Terms of availability | Textual |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | CSL |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | CSL |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 084 ## - COLON CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | Cv Q1 TC |
| Assigning agency | CSL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Capri, Anton Z. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1112511 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Quips, quotes and quanta : An anecdotal history of physics |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 2nd |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Jersey, |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | World Scientific: |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xii, 238p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Index 232-238p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | When a ship's surgeon during a routine episode of bloodletting noticed that the sailors' blood was brighter in the tropics than in the north, he hypothesized that heat was a form of energy. When a young boy tried to visualize what a beam of light would look like by riding alongside it at the same speed, he began thinking along lines that eventually changed our views of space and time. When a student caught hay fever and went to recover on Heligoland, he started a major revolution in physics. These are but just some of the stories covered in this entertaining book that deals with the history of physics from the end of the 19th-century to about 1930. Quips, Quotes and Quanta (2nd Edition) is unique in that it contains anecdotes on physicists creating new ideas. Often the thinking of the creators of what is now called ''modern physics'' is revealed through quotes. Thematic and biographical in nature, this book also includes many personal incidents. This second edition has been revised to include new material: a prologue, epilogue, glossary and chronology, and photographs as well as additional quotes and anecdotes. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Anecdotes |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1112512 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | History |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1112513 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Physics |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1112514 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Classification part | Cv Q1 TC |
| Koha item type | Textbook |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Colon Classification (CC) |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Colon Classification (CC) | Central Science Library | Central Science Library | 2022-09-12 | 1699, 30/03/2012, Ashutosh Technical Books | Cv Q1 TC | SL1537955 | 2022-09-12 | 2022-09-12 | Textbook |