The Facts on File Physics Handbook Book

Featuring easy-to-read and -understand chronologies, biographies, glossary entries, and charts, measurements, and formulas, students, teachers, and general readers will consider these books primary one-stop resources for quick answers to frequently asked science questions. Among the topics covered are: acceleration, boiling point, catalyst, electrolyte, gamma radiation, inertia, relative atomic mass, white dwarf, x-rays. Biographies include: Alexander Graham Bell, Pierre Curie, Christian Doppler, Albert Einstein, Euclid, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Hans William Geiger, Stephen Hawking. A multitude of tables, charts, and diagrams include: physical quantities, intensity and loudness, SI units, electrical and electronic circuit symbols, electromagnetic spectrum, types of energy, lenses, radioactivity.