Let there be light : the story of light from atoms to galaxies / Alex Montwill & Ann Breslin
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TextPublication details: London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., c2008Description: xxxiii, 595 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781860948503
- 1860948502
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Introducing 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