Name: Essential Physics Terminology Dictionary
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Essential Physics Terminology Dictionary

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Essential Physics Terminology Dictionary

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Book Introduction

From basic terminology to cutting-edge technology
A one-volume physics textbook

A book that helps even non-majors easily learn physics, which unravels all the structures and laws of the world and enriches our lives.
From the basics of physics to applied knowledge, we have carefully selected 185 essential terms and summarized only the core.
From everyday physics like typhoons, lightning, and LEDs to cutting-edge technologies born from physics like the Big Bang, black holes, and time machines, it covers everything without exception, and provides intuitive illustrations to make it easy to understand.

Part 1, Basic Knowledge, is divided into 7 chapters, including the basics of physics: mechanics, thermodynamics, waves, electromagnetism, atomic physics, space physics, and meteorological dynamics, and masters the basics of classical physics with 117 terms.
These include Hooke's law, Boltzmann's principle, the Doppler effect, Coulomb's law, the quantum theory of light, and nuclear fission.
Part 2, Applied Knowledge, is divided into four chapters, covering everything from the microscopic world of quantum mechanics to incredible and amazing theories, the mysteries of the universe, and cutting-edge technologies born from physics, ensuring that you master the cutting-edge technologies of modern physics.
These include the Schrödinger equation, string theory, semiconductors, and quantum teleportation.

The greatest strength of this book is that it uses a picture dictionary format to make physics, which can be perceived as somewhat difficult, fun and easy for anyone to learn.
The main concepts of physics are explained in a concise manner, and then combined with interesting illustrations to make them easy to understand at a glance.
Although not conceptualized in physics terms, useful physics common sense is included here and there in column form.
Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, how old are stars? Foucault's pendulum, the mechanism of torrential rain, and more.

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Part 1: Basic Knowledge
Chapter 1: The Basics of Physics! Mechanics
001_ Uniformly accelerated motion
002_ Law of Action and Reaction
003_ The Law of Inertia
004_ Hooke's Law
▶ Physics Terminology Dictionary Column - Basic Forces Covered in Classical Physics
005_ Work and Energy
006_Positional energy
007_ Vector
008_ Mechanical Energy
009_ Law of conservation of momentum
010_ Preservative and non-preservative power
011_ Free fall
012_ Coefficient of restitution
013_ Circular motion
014_ Single vibration
015_ Universal Gravitation
016_ Space speed
017_ Schwarzschild radius
018_ Kepler's Laws
019_ Torque
020_ Center of gravity
021_ Archimedes' Principle
▶ Physics Terminology Dictionary Column - Differences between Classical and Modern Physics

Chapter 2: Understanding the Power of Gases! Thermodynamics
022_ Celsius temperature (Celsius)
023_ Absolute temperature
024_ Boltzmann's principle
025_ Mean
026_ Heat capacity
027_ Ideal gas
028_ Boyle-Charles law
029_ State equation
030_ Internal energy
031_ The First Law of Thermodynamics
▶ Physics Terminology Dictionary Column - Standard for Measuring Weather, Mass of Gas
032_ Equivalent process
033_ Isostatic process
034_ Isothermal process
035_ Insulation process
036_ Kinetic theory of gases

Chapter 3: How Do Waves Form? Waves
037_ Zero Interference Experiment
038_ Mechanical waves
039_ Electromagnetic waves
040_ Wave (Vibration)
041_ Reflected wave
042_ Synthetic waves and standing waves
043_ Resonance
▶ Physics Terminology Dictionary Column - Originally Technical Terms! Words Related to Sound
049_ Coulomb's law
050_ Electric field and potential
051_ Maxwell's equations
052_ Gauss's law
053_ Free electrons
054_ Insulator, dielectric
055_ Current
056_ Ohm's Law
057_ Row of lines
058_ Kirchhoff's Laws
044_ Doppler effect
045_ Shockwave
046_ Pythagorean scale
047_ 1/f noise
048_ Speed of light
▶ Physics Dictionary Column - The Challenge of Measuring the Speed of Light

Chapter 4: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe: Electromagnetism
049_ Coulomb's law
050_ Electric field and potential
051_ Maxwell's equations
052_ Gauss's law
053_ Free electrons
054_ Insulator, dielectric
055_ Current
056_ Ohm's Law
057_ Row of lines
058_ Kirchhoff's Laws
044_ Doppler effect
045_ Shockwave
046_ Pythagorean scale
047_ 1/f noise
048_ Speed of light
The challenge of measuring the speed of light
059_ Fleming's Law
060_ Lorentz force
061_ Ampere force
▶ Physics Dictionary Column - A Fierce Current War Among Geniuses
062_ Right-handed screw rule
063_ Electromagnetic induction
064_ Biot-Savart law
065_ Ion
▶ Physics Terminology Dictionary Column - Pros and Cons of Different Power Generation Methods

Chapter 5: Creating Everything in the World! Atomic Physics
066_ Light quantum theory
067_ De Broglie
068_ Atomic Model
069_ Raisin Bread Model
070_ Saturn Model
071_ Rutherford model
072_ Hydrogen atom model
073_ Nucleus
074_ Proton
075_ Neutron
076_ Special theory of relativity
077_ Equivalence of mass and energy
078_ Twin Paradox
079_ General theory of relativity
080_ Nuclear fission
081_ Nuclear fusion
082_ Radiation
083_ X-ray
084_ Half-life
085_ Radioactive isotopes
086_ Nuclear bomb
▶ Physics Terminology Dictionary Column - Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project
087_ TNT conversion
▶ Physics Dictionary Column - The Four Elements That Made Up Matter, as Thought by Ancient People

Chapter 6: How Are Stars Born? Astrophysics
088_ Planet
089_ Star
090_ Red Giant
091_ Brown dwarf
092_ Neutron star
093_ Supernova explosion
▶ Physics Dictionary Column - How old are stars? Different extinction processes depend on their mass.
094_ Big Bang
095_ Black Hole
096_ Cosmic Background Radiation
097_ Expansion of the Universe
▶ Physics Dictionary Column - Proving the Earth's Rotation! Foucault's Pendulum
098_ Light Year
099_ Redshift
100_ Dark Matter
▶ Physics Dictionary Column - The Moon and Earth Were One? The Giant Impact Theory

Chapter 7: Understanding Weather in Depth! Meteorological Dynamics
101_ Atmospheric pressure
102_ hectopascal
103_ Clouds
104_ Rain
105_ Rainbow
106_ Whirlwind
107_ Typhoon
108_ Lightning
109_ Aurora
110_ Mirage
111_ The Mirage Below
112_ Rainy season
113_ Global warming
114_ Carbon neutrality
115_ Foehn phenomenon
116_ Shipboard Precipitation Unit
117_ Absolutely unstable
▶ Physics Dictionary Column - Short, Heavy Rain! The Mechanism of Heavy Rain

Part 2: Applied Knowledge
Chapter 1: The Microscopic World! Quantum Mechanics
118_ Elementary particles
119_ Quarks and Leptons
120_ Weak Bosons and Gluons
121_ Neutrino
122_ Pair annihilation and pair creation
123_ Chirality
124_ Spontaneous symmetry breaking
125_ Theory of Unification of the Pre-Pharmaceutical Law
126_ Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theory
127_ Colloidal particles
128_ Strange Atom
129_ Oh my god particle
130_ Bose-Einstein Condensate
131_ Cherenkov light
132_ Compton effect
133_ Fine structure constant
134_ Magic Number
▶ Physics Terminology Dictionary Column - The International System of Units, Which Defines the World's Units

Chapter 2: What the World Is Like! A Strange Theory That's Hard to Believe
135_ Schrödinger equation
136_ Determinism
137_ Uncertainty Principle
138_ Copenhagen Interpretation
139_ Many-World Interpretation
▶ Physics Terminology Dictionary Column - Thought Experiments That Laid the Foundation for Modern Physics
140_ Chaos theory
141_ Law of increasing entropy
142_ Laplace's Demon
143_ Butterfly Effect
144_ The World 5 Minutes Ago Hypothesis
▶ Physics Dictionary Column - Did God Really Roll the Dice?

Chapter 3 Revealed! The Mysteries of the Universe
145_ Superstring theory
146_ Quantum Gravity Theory
147_ Higgs particle
148_ Feynman Diagram
149_ Cosmological constant
150_ Roche Limit
151_ Fermi Paradox
152_ Drake Equation
153_ Goldilocks Zone
154_ Terraforming
155_ Gravitational waves
▶ Physics Dictionary Column - Observing Background Gravitational Waves Smaller Than Gravitational Waves!
156_ Starbo Effect
▶ Physics Dictionary Column - The Funny and Sad Stories of Genius Physicists

Chapter 4: Advanced Technologies Born from Physics
157_ Semiconductor
158_ Band Theory
159_ Hole Theory
160_ Kondo effect
161_ LED
162_ Tunnel effect
163_ Esaki diode
164_ Stark effect
165_ Zeeman effect
166_ Optical fiber
167_ Laser
168_ Fog Box
169_ Foam Box
170_ Accelerator
171_ Artificial Intelligence
172_ Quantum Computer
173_ Singularity
▶ Physics Dictionary Column - The Pauli Effect That Inevitably Leads to Experimental Failure
174_ Space Elevator
175_ Perpetual motion machine
176_ Carnot cycle
177_ Supersonic
178_ Ultrasound
179_ Superconductivity
180_ Josephson effect
181_ Meissner effect
182_ Magnetic flux fixation
183_ Michelson interferometer
184_ Time Machine
185_ Quantum Teleportation
▶ Physics Dictionary Column - Coincidentally, the results match! The "Anywhere Effect"

References

Into the book

Gravitation is a force that exists in all objects with mass, and two objects attract each other.
For example, there is a force of gravity between you and any object.
However, the constant representing universal gravitation is so small that it cannot be felt in everyday life.
If humans feel universal gravitation, then the calculation is that the other object must have at least a similar mass to the celestial body.
The only gravitational force we normally feel is the gravitational force acting between the Earth and humans.
It is often interpreted that universal gravitation = gravity, because gravity is an easy-to-understand example of universal gravitation.
--- p.31, "Universal Gravitation"

Have you heard of the glass harp? It's a musical instrument made by filling a wine glass with water and rubbing the rim with your fingers to create vibrations that produce sound.
This instrument creates sound by resonating between the frequency of the glass and the frequency of the glass or water, and the vibrations that occur along the edge.
The frequencies of radio and television also utilize the principle of resonance.
--- p.62, "Resonance"

Insulators do not conduct electricity well because they do not have any free-moving charges inside them.
Inside the insulator, there is a space where charges cannot escape, so electrons cannot leave the atoms, and a concentration of charges occurs inside the atoms.
This phenomenon is called dielectric polarization.
Because of its name, insulator, it is easy to think that it does not conduct electricity at all, but in reality, when high voltage is applied, the insulation may be damaged.
This breakdown phenomenon is called dielectric breakdown.
Be careful, even rubber or glass can cause electric shock when exposed to high voltage! --- p.78, "Insulators and Dielectrics"

Einstein's equations describe all phenomena related to gravity.
For example, if you reduce the strength of gravity in Einstein's equations, it has the same meaning as the law of universal gravitation.
That is, the law of universal gravitation discovered by Newton occurs in situations where the influence of gravity is small.
Conversely, if we make gravity stronger, we get an answer that represents a black hole.
Moreover, the laws of the universe, such as the expansion of the universe, are also explained by Einstein's equations.
In this way, Einstein used the two theories of relativity to create a hint that could help him unlock the secrets of the universe.
--- p.107, "General Theory of Relativity"

So why is global warming a problem? It's because the radiation balance is disrupted, and temperatures are rising.
The cause of global warming is carbon dioxide.
Carbon dioxide prevents the Earth from cooling because it absorbs infrared radiation radiating from the Earth's surface into space.
That is, the heat received from the sun remains on the Earth and does not escape.
The melting of glaciers and rising sea levels due to global warming is also a major problem.
Some reports say that if sea levels continue to rise at the current rate, some coastal cities and island nations will be submerged within 100 years.
--- p.145, "Global Warming"

Let's say we have a box containing one winning lottery ticket and nine losing lottery tickets.
Ten people each draw a card, and if they don't win, they put the card back in the box.
At this time, there are times when no winning lottery ticket is drawn even if ten people draw several times, and there are also times when the first person wins on the first try.
In this microscopic world, what happens or what state we are in is not certain, and we think it is probabilistic because we do not know what may happen or what may not happen.
--- p.181, "Schrödinger Equation"

In classical computing, the unit used in operations is called a bit, which can only have a value of either 0 or 1.
Basically, until now, computers have been calculating using 0s and 1s.
However, in the case of quantum computing, calculations are made in a state where 0 and 1 are superimposed on each other, called Q bits.
It may be difficult to understand, but this is how quantum computing performs many calculations at once.
That is, it does a lot of calculations in a shorter amount of time than classical calculations.
Current quantum computers have many errors and lag behind conventional computers in computational capabilities, but once they are put into practical use, they will play a crucial role in elucidating medicines and diseases that deal with atoms and molecules.

--- p.236, "Quantum Computer"

Publisher's Review

Physics without numbers, physics that reads the world

Physics, a synonym for basic science, is an academic discipline that aims to elucidate the principles of motion of all objects, including the universe and nature.
It can be said to be an academic discipline that answers the questions ancient philosophers had about the principles of all things.

With the development of science, modern physics has been divided into various sub-disciplines.
The status of physics has risen to the point where it is no exaggeration to say that everything in the world, including astrophysics, particle physics, theoretical physics, experimental physics, quantum mechanics, dynamics, and electromagnetism, can be explained using physics formulas.
On the other hand, for this reason, we tend to think of physics as a very difficult and rigid subject, characterized by complex calculations, terminology, and numbers.

The Essential Physics Dictionary aims to overturn that perception by explaining everything about physics using simple illustrations, excluding formulas and numbers as much as possible.
From well-known concepts like relativity and universal gravitation to cutting-edge issues like quantum computers and singularity, we've designed 185 keywords to help you master physics.

The author explains his intention in writing this book as helping solve the problems of upskilling and reskilling talent in the era of technological innovation.
With the rapid advancement of technology, the skills required in industrial settings are rapidly changing, but school education and vocational training are failing to keep pace with the upskilling/reskilling problem. By carefully reading this book, I hope you will seize the opportunity to not only develop yourself but also understand the principles of the world and level up as a better talent.

Papajae Kakayu Series: A series of educational books that are fun and informative in every way.

The Papajae Kakayu series is an abbreviation for ‘fun and useful in waves.’
This is a science general education series planned by Dong-A M&B, a science general education publisher, with 10 years of know-how.
Following the first volume, 『Elemental Stories』, the second volume, 『Dictionary of Essential Physics Terms』, has been published.

GOODS SPECIFICS

- Date of issue: August 15, 2025

- Page count, weight, size: 252 pages | 388g | 152*225*16mm

- ISBN13: 9791163639725

- ISBN10: 1163639729