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Questioning the Universe
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Questioning the Universe

by Ahren Sadoff
December 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
7h 44m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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150 Questioning the Universe: Concepts in Physics
skin shivering in a cold, dark, dank cave, or, worse still, just crawling out of the
primordial sea.
12.14 END-OF-CHAPTER GUIDE TO KEY IDEAS
What is the statement of Galilean relativity? What are the important words
in this statement and what do they mean?
What is the Galilean transformation of speeds and what does it mean?
What was Maxwell’s discovery and how is it related to the ether?
What determines the measured speed of a wave? Of a particle?
Why was the Michelson Morley experiment performed?
What was the basic idea of the experiment?
What was observed in the Michelson Morley experiment?
What were the possible explanations for the observation in the Michelson
Morley experiment? ...
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