Physics category: 13946 books
The Jazz of Physics
The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane
More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming...
Six Easy Pieces
Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
"If one book was all that could be passed on to the next generation of scientists it would undoubtedly have to be Six Easy Pieces."- John Gribbin, New Scientist
It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students...
by James Kakalios
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science
Since 2001, James Kakalios has taught "Everything I Needed to Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books," a hugely popular university course...
Physics Made Simple
A Complete Introduction to the Basic Principles of This Fundamental Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Understand the rules that make the universe run.
Understanding the laws of physics is essential for all scientific studies, but many students are intimidated by their complexities. This completely revised and updated book makes it easy to understand the most important principles. From the physics...
Football Physics
The Science of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2004
You'll never view a football game in quite the same way again--the ultimate guide for the millions of impassioned fans who have turned football into America's most watched sport
What effect does altitude have on the flight of a kicked ball? How do Newton's laws of motion apply to blocking and...
Collider
The Search for the World's Smallest Particles
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
An accessible look at the hottest topic in physics and the experiments that will transform our understanding of the universe
The biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle-smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the...
by Frank Close
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the 19th century, which implied the existence of a positive charge in the atom to make it neutral. In this Very Short Introduction Frank Close gives an account...
by Emilio Segrè
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Born in Italy to a well-to-do Jewish family, Emilio Segrè (1905-1989) became Enrico Fermi’s first graduate student in 1928, contributed to the discovery of slow neutrons and was appointed director of the University of Palermo’s physics laboratory in 1936. While visiting the Radiation Laboratory...
Fundamentals of Physics
Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Professor R. Shankar, a well-known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, was among the first to offer a course through the innovative Open Yale Course program. His popular online video lectures on introductory physics have been viewed over a million times. In this concise and self-contained...
by Andrew Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
James Chadwick (1891-1974) came from a humble background: his father was a cotton spinner. He was accepted in the physics department of Sir Ernest Rutherford at Manchester University in 1908 on a scholarship, and soon started publishing new findings about radioactivity. This led to a traveling scholarship...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Since the parameters in dynamical systems of biological interest are inherently positive and bounded, bounded noises are a natural way to model the realistic stochastic fluctuations of a biological system that are caused by its interaction with the external world. Bounded Noises in Physics,...
Exploring the World of Physics
From Simple Machines to Nuclear Energy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Physics is a branch of science that many people consider to be too complicated to understand. In this exciting addition to the ?Exploring? series, John Hudson Tiner puts this myth to rest as he explains the fascinating world of physics in a way that students from elementary to high school can comprehend....
by Frank J. Tipler
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
A highly respected physicist demonstrates that the essential beliefs of Christianity are wholly consistent with the laws of physics.
Frank Tipler takes an exciting new approach to the age-old dispute about the relationship between science and religion in The Physics of Christianity. In reviewing...
Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics
The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1999
Perhaps the two most important conceptual breakthroughs in twentieth century physics are relativity and quantum mechanics. Developing a theory that combines the two seamlessly is a difficult and ongoing challenge. This accessible book contains intriguing explorations of this theme by the distinguished...