The physics of war : from arrows to atoms / Barry Parker.
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Amherst, New York :
Prometheus Books,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Early wars and the beginning of physics
- Basic physics of early weapons
- The rise and fall of the Roman Empire and early English-French wars
- Gunpowder and cannons: the discovery that changed the art of war and the world
- Three men ahead of their time: Da Vinci, Tartaglia, and Galileo
- From early guns to total destruction and discovery
- The impact of the industrial revolution
- Napoleon's weapons and new breakthroughs in physics
- The American Civil War
- Where does the bullet go: ballistics of rifle bullets and cannon shells
- Hey, look ... it flies!: aerodynamics and the first airplanes
- The machine gun war
- World War I
- The invisible rays: the development and use of radio and radar in war
- Sonar and the submarine
- The great war: World War II
- The atomic bomb
- The hydrogen bomb, intercontinental missiles, lasers, and the future.