The wonders of physics

Contents
Preface
Color Inset
Part 1 Outdoor physics
	Chapter 1 Meandering down to the sea
		1.1 Tea-leaves in a glass
		1.2 How river-beds change
		1.3 How meanders are formed
	Chapter 2 Rivers from lakes
	Chapter 3 The oceanic phone booth
		3.1 Sound in water
		3.2 Light in water
		3.3 Water waveguides
		3.4 Applications?
	Chapter 4 In the blue
	Chapter 5 The moon-glades
	Chapter 6 The Foucault pendulum and the Baer law
		6.1 Inertia forces in the rotating reference frame
		6.2 Interesting consequences
	Chapter 7 The moon-brake
Part 2 Saturday night physics
	Chapter 8 Why the violin sings
	Chapter 9 The chiming and silent goblets
	Chapter 10 The bubble and the droplet
		10.1 Soap-bubbles
		10.2 On different kinds of droplets
	Chapter 11 The mysteries of the magic lamp
	Chapter 12 The water mic or about one invention of Alexander Bell’s
	Chapter 13 How waves transmit information
	Chapter 14 Why electric power lines are droning
	Chapter 15 The footprints on the sand
		15.1 The dense packing of balls
		15.2 The long-range and short-range orders
	Chapter 16 How to prevent snowdrifts?
	Chapter 17 The incident on the train
Part 3 Physics in the kitchen
	Chapter 18 Craving microwaved mammoth
	Chapter 19 The physics of baking good pizza
	Chapter 20 Boiling, steaming, or rinsing?
		20.1 Boiling
		20.2 Steaming
		20.3 Rinsing
		20.3.1 On cooking times
		20.3.2 On soup base
	Chapter 21 The mystery of the Christmas turkey
	Chapter 22 Macaroni, spaghetti, and physics
		22.1 A glimpse into a history of pasta and its manufacturing
		22.2 A scientific way of spaghetti cooking
		22.3 Spaghetti knotting
		22.4 The secrets of mixing of pasta with sauce
		22.5 Breaking a spaghetti strand
	Chapter 23 Ab(out) ovo
	Chapter 24 Waiting for the kettle to boil
	Chapter 25 The physics of good coffee
		25.1 Boiled coffee
		25.2 Filter coffee pot (dripper)
		25.3 Turkish coffee
		25.4 Instant coffee
		25.5 The Italian moka
		25.6 The ancient coffee maker – “la Napoletana”
		25.7 The “Espresso”
		25.8 Variations on the Espresso theme
		25.9 Air humidity and degree of coffee beans grinding for espresso
	Chapter 26 “Nunc est bibendum”: physicists talk around glasses of wine
		26.1 On the origin of wine and the methods of wine making
		26.2 Tears of wine
		26.3 Champagne and its bubbles
			26.3.1 Methode Champenoise (Champagne method)
			26.3.2 Bubbles and foam
		26.4 “Bread” wine – vodka
		26.5 The role of wine in the prevention of cardio-vascular diseases: the French paradox (or Bordeaux effect)
		26.6 Quality estimation and attribution of wine: SNIF NMR method
Part 4 Windows to the quantum world
	Chapter 27 The birth of new physics at the turn of the century
	Chapter 28 The uncertainty principle
		28.1 Momentum and coordinate
		28.2 The probability waves
		28.3 Zero-point oscillations
	Chapter 29 On snowballs, nuts, bubbles and. . .liquid helium
	Chapter 30 Superconductivity: a century of discoveries, dreams, and disappointments
		30.1 Starting from the end
		30.2 Back to the beginning
		30.3 From surprise to understanding
		30.4 Chasing high critical parameters
		30.5 Quasi-two-dimensional superconductivity between antiferromagnetic and metallic states
		30.6 Superconductivity for penguins
	Chapter 31 What is a SQUID?
		31.1 The quantization of magnetic flux
		31.2 Josephson effect
		31.3 The quantum magnetometer
	Chapter 32 Superconducting magnets
		32.1 The Meißner effect in detail
		32.2 The Abrikosov vortices
		32.3 What is pinning?
		32.4 Postscriptum for taxpayers
	Chapter 33 What is magnetic resonance imaging?
		33.1 Magnetic moment
		33.2 What is nuclear magnetic resonance?
		33.3 How NMR was discovered
		33.4 How the imaging of internal organs is performed by NMR
		33.5 Striking “images”
	Chapter 34 Towards a quantum computer
		34.1 Milestones of the computer era
		34.2 Twenty-first century: looking for a new paradigm
		34.3 Where does the border between the macro- and microworld lie?
		34.4 Quantum wires and quantum point contacts
		34.5 “Coulomb blockade” and single electron transistors
		34.6 What are physicists working at today in nanoscience?
	Chapter 35 A great but terrible nuclear energy
Afterword
Index
About the authors