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Suggestions for new images and films

  • Add film of star motion around black hole at centre of our galaxy.
  • Add more pictures of machines (maybe in a separate section; e.g. textile machine, turkey machine by Stork, tiny machines, calculating machines, etc.)
  • Add more pictures of experimental set-ups.


Suggestions for better explanations


Suggestions for new topics and tables

  • Add the Goos-Hänchen effect.
  • Add falling chain ring story.
  • Explain caesium clock working.
  • Add challenges for exam preparation.
  • Add all figure and table captions in index.
  • Add quote(s) by Roger Bacon.
  • Check text with formula collection.
  • via Ed Cryer: Add from Aritotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10, Chapter 7, the very end:τὸ γὰρ οἰκεῖον ἑκάστῳ τῇ φύσει κράτιστον καὶ ἥδιστόν ἐστιν ἑκάστῳ: καὶ τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ δὴ ὁ κατὰ τὸν νοῦν βίος, εἴπερ τοῦτο μάλιστα ἄνθρωπος. οὗτος ἄρα καὶ εὐδαιμονέστατος. (1178a whatever is proper to each is naturally best and pleasantest to him: such then is to Man the life in accordance with pure Intellect (since this Principle is most truly Man), and if so, then it is also the happiest.) ὁ κατὰ τὸν νοῦν βίος the life in accordance with pure Intellect - I love that phrase, especially in Greek.
  • Include what a survey found about what the young boys (B) and girls (G) want to know from the sciences:
  1. how to ensure fitness (B+G)
  2. about reason and meaning of dreams (G)
  3. about cancer, HIV, narcotics, ST diseases, alcohol and tobacco effects, prevention, etc (G)
  4. about first aid and medical equipment (G)
  5. about diet, eating disorders (G) (CS: no)
  6. about nuclear bomb, explosives, biol. weapons, chem. weapons (B)
  7. about life outside Earth (B)
  8. CD, DVD and tapes: how they work (B)
  9. lasers for technical applications (B) (CS: done, but need photo)
  10. how does weightlessness in space feel (B)
  11. how computers work (B)
  • Add more on semiconductors.
  • Add more on nuclear physics.
  • Add more on optics; add progress on optics.
  • Add more topics on mechanisms and robots.
  • Add more topics on power generation by chemical means.
  • Add more on business aspects of physics.
  • Add mechanism of finger noises.
  • Teach calculations, including fractions, including mental calculations.
  • Add polarizability of matter from 10^8 to 10^18 Hz.
  • What shines/glows at night in a forest? (In a desert? On a mountain?) Why?
  • Introduce UV / VIS / IR spectroscopy.
  • Explain fluorescence spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy.
  • Explain confocal laser scan microscopy.
  • Explain circular dichroism.
  • Explain single molecule FRET.
  • Explain NMR and ESR, explain pulse sequences in laser spectroscopy.
  • Add mass spectroscopy, MALD-TOF, ESI.
  • Add crystallography, X-ray, neutrons.
  • Analytical ultracentrifugation.
  • Add more on calorimetry.
  • Inelastic electron scattering (for biomolecules).
  • Add more on blood circulation.
  • Add a brightness table (sunlight, candle, etc.) in the main text.
  • Add universe parameters.
  • Add the free will theorem.
  • Add aphorisms by Zarko Petan.
  • Add: lauschen ist rauschen.
  • Phone Füssmann at the MPI for plasma cloud movie.
  • Add escape velocity table.
  • Added refs on Poynting vector for transformers?
  • Mathematics is the language and backbone of sciences, and especially so for the fundamental science known as physics. It would be cool to also include some sections to introduce the concepts of mathematics, especially on space and vectors, and the different coordinate systems, DIFFERENTIAL and integral equations that is so vital to describe anything is physics in a precise manner. (CS: spaces and vectors are explained in the text already in detail; different coordinate systems will probably not be included; but I agree that more on differential equations needs to be added.)
  • Explain metal conductivity; by HD.
  • Explain superconductivity.
  • Add more on the enteric nervous system.
  • Add explanation on artificial eggs, artificial tomato, artificial shrimp.
  • Add story about the Lake Nyos CO2 disaster in Cameroon.
  • Add one of the fake terahertz images and the challenge to show why; add backscatter X ray imaging.
  • Add comment on motionmountain logo/picture: There are optimal trajectories climbing a mountain. They depend on human metabolism. They found following formula for the metabolism in kJoule/m where a is the tangens of the angle of gradient: M(a) = 2.635 + 17.37a + 42.37a*a - 21.43a*a*a +14.93a*a*a*a. If angle is bigger than 16 degree, the better way is to zigzag the mountain. (see Marcos Llobera, Tim Sluckin: Zigzagging: theoretical insights on climbing strategies, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 249, (2), 206-217 (2007,DOI:10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.07.020) (CS: thank you, this is pretty! I did not know this work; I just read it, and I will mention this somewhere.)


Suggestions for better tools and design

  • Psfrag all pictures.
  • Re-Do Fig. 408 with pstricks.
  • Correct the vignettes in volumes 1 to 5.
  • Latex acronyms: how do they work in titles, in index, in captions, and in bookmarks?
  • Add language to citations in the latex code.
  • Use a professional designer for cover, back cover, and illustrations, change them to the quality required for offset printing.
  • Reduce pdf size by removing photoshop/illustrator metadata. Either pre-process ps before distilling with awk/perl or use commercial application 'pdf enhancer'. Saves 14.1MB
  • Convert all videos to one common codec. Use h.264 in case that by the time of the next book release Windows Media Player ships out of the box with this codec. Should save an additional 7MB & ensure future compatibility and playability across platforms -- once all major platforms come with this codec. (CS: ok, but how do I change codec?)


Suggestion for document properties

  • Allow fuller use of the initial view tab in document properties. This will allow a user to open the file at the last page they were viewing. (CS: if you explain me how to do this in Acrobat Pro 8, I will implement it.)
  • If possible use mirrored left-right margins to printing and binding more effective. The copyright strip should be on the inner and the challenges and page refs on the outer margin. Also the inner margin could be a little wider. I really really like the text and like to curl up with a printed section. (CS: to bind it for yourself, print it on one-sided paper and bind it on the left side. For a bound paper edition, see http://stores.lulu.com/motionmountain.)
  • Provide document in ePub or .mobi format that can be read on a Kindle. (Kindle allows pdf but the text is too small) (CS: tell me how to do it, and I will consider it. Note that I only own Macs, and I cannot use PC sowftware. The Mobi creator does not work on a Mac, I found out.) SP: Try http://calibre-ebook.com/ They have an OS-X version and can convert a large number of formats to mobi. I use the program almost daily. Alternatively, Amazon will convert and publish for you, but I don't know much about that. (CS: I tried Calibre on one volume as a converter to Kindle .mobi format; the result is unreadable, much worse than ascii text. In short, I will not be able to make an epub book by myself, I'm afraid. A readable conversion will be quite some work, will require a dedicated Latex typeset, and will need somebody to help out.)
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