A short history of equations
Without Claude Shannon's information theory there would have been no internet
Alok Jha: How to make communications faster and take up less space on a hard disk
The Fourier transform lets you have your cake and understand it
Alok Jha: Teasing apart the ingredients of a jumble helps scientists to study complex things that change over time or space
What is Newton's second law of motion?
It explains force, whichever way it is happening
E=mc2: Einstein's equation that gave birth to the atom bomb
Alok Jha: Albert Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 for the first time connected the mass of an object with its energy and heralded a new world of physics
The ideal gas law – why bubbles expand if you heat them
Alok Jha: Pressure, temperature, volume and the number of particles of a gas can help predict how it will behave
Sound, light and water waves and how scientists worked out the mathematics
What violins have in common with the sea – the wave principle. By Alok Jha
Why you can't travel at the speed of light
A short history of Einstein's theory of relativity
What is the second law of thermodynamics?
Endless movement between hot and cold will eventually mean the end of the universe
What is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
How the sun shines and why the vacuum of space is not actually empty
Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation
How Isaac Newton's encounter with that apple ended up helping send rockets into space
What are Maxwell's Equations?
Alok Jha: How a Scottish physicist formulated the equations that showed us how to electrify the world
