My First Book of Quantum Physics /|Csheddad Kaid-Salah, Ferrón & Eduard Altarriba.

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Introduction -- Sir Isaac Newton -- What we can do with classical physics -- Planck's quanta -- The mystery of light -- Maxwell and light waves -- Einstein and light -- Photons -- Waves or particles? -- The structure of the atom -- The atom -- The periodic table -- Molecules -- Atomic spectra -- The quantized atom -- The double-slit experiment -- Matter waves -- Schrödinger's cat -- The uncertainty principle -- The mystery of antimatter -- Quantum entanglement -- Radioactivity -- The tunnel effect -- Elementary particles -- Things we do every day using modern physics -- Things that we will do someday with modern physics -- Quantum timeline -- A mathematical universe.
Everything around us – trees, buildings, food, light, water, air and even ourselves – is composed of minute particles, smaller than a nanometer (a billionth of a meter). Quantum physics is the science of these particles and without it none of our electronic devices, from smartphones to computers and microwave ovens, would exist.
But quantum physics also pushes us to the very boundaries of what we know about science, reality and the structure of the universe. The world of quantum physics is an amazing place, where quantum particles can do weird and wonderful things, acting totally unlike the objects we experience in day-to-day life. How can atoms exist in two places at once? And just how can a cat be dead and alive at the same time? Find out more with this entertaining illustrated guide to the fascinating, mysterious world of quantum physics.

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