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Suggestions for new images and films

  • Add film of star motion around black hole at centre of our galaxy.


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.
  • Check text with formula collections.
  • 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 topics on power generation by chemical means.
  • Add mechanism of finger noises.
  • Teach calculations, including fractions, including mental calculations.
  • Add polarizability of matter from 10^8 to 10^18 Hz.
  • 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 the free will theorem.
  • Add aphorisms by Zarko Petan.
  • Add: lauschen ist rauschen.
  • Add escape velocity table.
  • 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.


Suggestions for better design and document properties

  • Add language to citations in the latex code.
  • Use a professional designer for cover, back cover, and illustrations; also 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 (CS: I need a way to do this on the mac offline, for all files in my image directory; just let me know how to do it, while keeping the original eps files editable with Illustrator.)
  • 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?)
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