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The nature of science: an A-Z guide to the laws and principles governing our universe
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Houghton Mifflin
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2003.
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English
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9780618319381
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Laws 1 --
Accelerated Motion, equations of 2 --
Acid Rain 6 --
Acids and Bases, theories of 8 --
Allen's Rule 11 --
Ampere's Law 12 --
Angular Momentum, conservation of 14 --
Animal Territoriality 15 --
Anthropic Principle 16 --
Antibiotics, resistance to 18 --
Antiparticles 20 --
Archimedes' Principle 22 --
Argon, discovery of 23 --
Atomic Theory 24 --
Aufbau Principle 26 --
Avogadro's Law 28 --
Balance of Nature 30 --
Band Theory of Solids 31 --
BCS Theory of Superconductivity 32 --
Beauty Criterion 35 --
Bell's Theorem 36 --
Bernoulli Effect 39 --
Big Bang 41 --
Biot-Savart Law 43 --
Black Holes 45 --
Black-Body Radiation 48 --
Bohr Atom 50 --
Bohr Explanation 52 --
Boltzmann Constant 54 --
Boyle's Law 55 --
Bragg's Law 56 --
Brewster's Law 58 --
Brownian Motion 59 --
Carbon Cycle 61 --
Carnot's Principle 63 --
Catalysts and Enzymes 65 --
Cell Theory 66 --
Centrifugal Force 67 --
Chandrasekhar Limit 69 --
Changes of State 71 --
Charles's Law 73 --
Chemical Bonds 74 --
Cherenkov Radiation 77 --
Chronology Protection Conjecture 78 --
Circadian Rhythms 79 --
Clausius-Clapeyron Equation 80 --
Cloning 81 --
Coevolution 83 --
Cohesion-Tension Theory 84 --
Competitive Exclusion, principle of 85 --
Complementarity Principle 86 --
Complex Adaptive Systems 88 --
Compound Motion 89 --
Compton Effect 92 --
Copernican Principle 93 --
Cope's Law 95 --
Coriolis Effect 96 --
Correspondence Principle 98 --
Cosmic Triangle 99 --
Cosmological Constant 102 --
Coulomb's Law 104 --
Curie Point 106 --
Curie's Law 108 --
Dalton's Law 109 --
Dark Matter 110 --
Davisson-Germer Experiment 113 --
De Broglie Relation 114 --
Determinism 116 --
Deterministic Chaos 118 --
Differential Resource Utilization 121 --
Diffraction 122 --
Dispersion, atomic theory of 123 --
DNA 125 --
Doppler Effect 128 --
Drake Equation 131 --
Early Universe 133 --
Ecological Succession 135 --
Electrical Charge, conservation of 137 --
Electrical Properties of Matter 138 --
Electromagnetic Spectrum 140 --
Electron, discovery of 144 --
Elementary Particles 146 --
Equilibrium 148 --
Equivalence Principle 150 --
Evolution, theory of 151 --
Exponential Growth 158 --
Faraday's Laws of Electrolysis 160 --
Faraday's Laws of Induction 161 --
Fermat's Last Theorem 164 --
Fermat's Principle 166 --
Fermi Paradox 167 --
Fibonacci Numbers 169 --
Flame Test 170 --
Fourier Analysis 171 --
Free Electron Theory of Conduction 172 --
Gaia Hypothesis 173 --
Gauss's Law 174 --
Genetic Code 176 --
Genetic Drift 177 --
Germ Theory of Disease 178 --
Giant Impact Hypothesis 180 --
Glycolysis and Respiration 181 --
Godel's Incompleteness Theorems 184 --
Goldbach Conjecture 186 --
Graham's Law 187 --
Green Revolution 188 --
Greenhouse Effect 189 --
Hall Effect 191 --
Hardy-Weinberg Law 192 --
Heat, atomic theory of 193 --
Heat Transfer 194 --
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle 197 --
Helium, discovery of 202 --
Henry's Law 204 --
Hershey-Chase Experiment 205 --
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram 207 --
Hooke's Law 209 --
Hubble's Law 211 --
Human Genome Project 215 --
Huygens' Principle 217 --
Ideal Gas Law 218 --
Immune System 219 --
Inflationary Universe 221 --
Interference 223 --
Josephson Effect 225 --
Kepler's Laws 226 --
Kinetic Theory 230 --
Kinship Selection 232 --
Kirchhoff-Bunsen Discovery 233 --
Kirchhoff's Laws 235 --
Lamarckianism 237 --
Lawson Criterion 238 --
Le Chatelier's Principle 240 --
Lenz's Law 241 --
"Like Dissolves Like" 242 --
Linear Momentum, conservation of 243 --
Linnaean System of Classification 244 --
MacArthur-Wilson Equilibrium Theory 246 --
Magnetic Monopoles 248 --
Magnetism 249 --
Marginal Value Theorem 251 --
Mass Extinctions 253 --
Maximum Sustainable Yield 255 --
Maxwell's Demon 256 --
Maxwell's Equations 258 --
Mendel's Laws 260 --
Michelson-Morley Experiment 262 --
Milankovic Cycles 264 --
Miller-Urey Experiment 267 --
Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment 269 --
Mimicry 271 --
Molecular Biology, central dogma of 273 --
Molecular Clock 276 --
Molecular Orbital Theory 278 --
Molecules of Life 279 --
Moore's Law 282 --
Murphy's Law 283 --
Mutuality, principle of 285 --
Nebular Hypothesis 286 --
Nerve Signals, propagation of 289 --
Newton's Law of Gravitation 291 --
Newton's Laws of Motion 294 --
Nitrogen Cycle 298 --
Nuclear Fusion and Fission 301 --
Null Hypothesis 303 --
Occam's Razor 304 --
Octet Rule 305 --
Oersted Discovery 306 --
Ohm's Law 307 --
Olbers' Paradox 308 --
"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" 309 --
Optimal Foraging Theory 310 --
Ozone Hole 311 --
Pauli Exclusion Principle 312 --
Penicillin, discovery of 314 --
Periodic Table 315 --
Period-Luminosity Relation 317 --
Perpetual Motion 318 --
Phlogiston 319 --
Photoelectric Effect 320 --
Photosynthesis 321 --
Planck Constant 324 --
Plate Tectonics 325 --
Predator-Prey Relationships 329 --
Proteins 330 --
Quantum Chromodynamics 332 --
Quantum Mechanics 334 --
Quantum Tunneling 336 --
Quarks and the Eightfold Way 338 --
Radioactive Decay 340 --
Radiometric Dating 343 --
Rayleigh Criterion 345 --
Reflection, law of 347 --
Relativity 348 --
Reproductive Strategies 352 --
Reynolds Number 353 --
Robotics, the three laws of 355 --
Rock Cycle 356 --
Rutherford Experiment 358 --
Rydberg Constant 360 --
Schrodinger's Equation 361 --
Shock Waves 364 --
Snell's Law 365 --
Social Darwinism 368 --
Species-Area Law 369 --
Spectroscopy 370 --
Spontaneous Generation 371 --
Standard Model 372 --
States of Matter 375 --
Steady-State Theory 376 --
Stefan-Boltzmann Law 377 --
Stellar Evolution 379 --
Stem Cells 382 --
Stern-Gerlach Experiment 383 --
String Theories 384 --
Superposition, law of 386 --
Surface Tension 388 --
Symbiosis 390 --
Terminal Velocity 392 --
Theories of Everything 393 --
Thermal Expansion, law of 395 --
Thermodynamics, first law of 396 --
Thermodynamics, second law of 399 --
Thermodynamics, third law of 402 --
Titius-Bode Law 404 --
Triune brain 407 --
Turing Test 409 --
Tyndall Effect 410 --
Uniformitarianism 411 --
Urea, synthesis of 413 --
Van Helmont Experiment 414 --
Vital Force 415 --
Water Cycle 416 --
Zeeman Effect 417 --
Zeno's Paradox 418.
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