An edition of How to teach physics to your dog (2009)

How to teach physics to your dog

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How to teach physics to your dog
Chad Orzel, Chad Orzel
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An edition of How to teach physics to your dog (2009)

How to teach physics to your dog

1st Scribner hardcover ed.
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Who better to teach the magic of quantum physics than a talking dog? Sit down with Orzel and his dog Emmy as the author explains the laws of physics.

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2009, Scribner
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Cover of: How to teach physics to your dog
How to teach physics to your dog
2009, Scribner
in English - 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
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Table of Contents

Why talk to your dog about physics? : an introduction to quantum physics
Which way? both ways : particle-wave duality
Where's my bone? : the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Schrödinger's Dog : the Copenhagen interpretation
Many worlds, many treats : the many-worlds interpretation
Are we there yet? : the quantum Zeno effect
No digging required : quantum tunneling
Spooky barking at a distance : quantum entanglement
Beam me a bunny : quantum teleportation
Bunnies made of cheese : virtual particles and quantum electrodynamics
Beware of evil squirrels : misuses of quantum physics.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230).

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Dewey Decimal Class
530.12
Library of Congress
QC24.5 .O79 2009

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Pagination
viii, 241 p. :
Number of pages
241

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Open Library
OL24879022M
ISBN 10
1416572287
ISBN 13
9781416572282
LCCN
2009021073
OCLC/WorldCat
311764488

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Work ID
OL13804887W

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How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is a book that explains quantum mechanics in terms that even a dog can understand-- in fact, the dog does some of the explaining.

Each chapter is built around a conversation between Chad Orzel, a physics professor at Union College, and his dog Emmy, the Queen of Niskayuna, in which Emmy seizes upon some aspect of quantum mechanics as a way to obtain doggy goals-- using her wave nature to surround bunnies, using quantum tunneling to pass through the fence to the neighbor's yard, using quantum teleportation to surprise squirrels in the back yard. Each conversation is followed by a more detailed explanation of the real phenomena at the heart of quantum physics (with occasional interjections from Emmy).

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