Physics category: 13946 books
Quantum Enigma : Physics Encounters Consciousness
Physics Encounters Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
In trying to understand the atom physicists built quantum mechanics the most successful theory in science and the basis of one-third of our economy. They found to their embarrassment that with their theory physics encounters consciousness. Authors Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner explain all this...
The Theoretical Minimum
What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
A master teacher presents the ultimate introduction to classical mechanics for people who are serious about learning physics
"Beautifully clear explanations of famously 'difficult' things," --Wall Street Journal
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2013
If you ever regretted not...
Physics of the Future
How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100.
In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible—gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s...
by Mark A. Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This undergraduate textbook discusses the nature of the microscopic universe from a modern perspective, based on Einstein's notions of relativity and Noether's proof of the emergence of conservation laws from symmetries of the equations of motion. These ideas drove the development of the Standard...
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I
The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning publications that have remained definitive and introductory to physics for decades. Ranging from...
by C Radhakrishnan, Gopal K. R.
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
This is the free e-book of the famous work 'The Secret Behind the Universe' by the same author.
Exploring the secrets of the Universe as far as physics can go, and even beyond.. Along with its Vedantic integration.
This book is divided into two sections. The first section is a work in...
Clouds in a Glass of Beer
Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Ever wonder why steam rises from a bowl of hot soup or why a greenhouse retains heat? And have you ever puzzled over the real meaning of "once in a blue moon" or why sand is darker when it's wet than when it's dry? And just why, exactly, do bubbles appear in a glass of beer when you add...
The Edge of Physics
A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
A tour of the exotic and remote outposts where scientists seek answers to the great mysteries: “A thrilling ride around the globe and around the cosmos.” —Sean Carroll, author of From Eternity to Here
In The Edge of Physics, a science writer journeys to the ends of the Earth—visiting...
Fear of Physics
A Guide for the Perplexed
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
Fear of Physics is a lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-edge research at the observable limits of the universe. Rich with anecdotes and accessible examples, it nimbly ranges over the tools and thought behind the world of modern physics, taking the mystery out of what is essentially a very human intellectual endeavor.
The Physics Book
From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Following the hugely successful The Science Book and The Math Book comes a richly illustrated chronology of physics, containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle,...
by J. L. Heilbron
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe...
Feynman Lectures Simplified 1B
Harmonic Oscillators, & Thermodynamics
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Feynman Simplified gives mere mortals access to the fabled Feynman Lectures on Physics.
As a Caltech undergraduate, I had the amazing opportunity to learn physics directly from the greatest scientist of our age. I absorbed all I could. His style and enthusiasm were as important as the facts...
Introducing Particle Physics
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
What really happens at the most fundamental levels of nature? Introducing Particle Physics explores the very frontiers of our knowledge, even showing how particle physicists are now using theory and experiment to probe our very concept of what is real. From the earliest history of the atomic theory through...
by Ferguson Cosgrove
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Exam Board: CCEA
Level: A-level
Subject: Physics
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2018
Reinforce students' understanding throughout their course; clear topic summaries with sample questions and answers will improve exam technique to achieve higher grades
Written by examiners...