Physics category: 13946 books
Atom Land
A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Journey into an unseen world—and to the frontiers of human knowledge
Welcome to Atom Land, a subatomic realm governed by the laws of particle physics. Here, electromagnetism is a highway system; the strong force, a railway; the weak force, an airline. With award-winning physicist Jon Butterworth...
by BarCharts,Inc
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
This guide covers Physics Laws, Concepts, Variables, and Equations including Sample Problems, Common Pitfalls and Helpful Hints.
God Particle
If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2006
A Nobel Prize–winning physicist’s “funny, clever, entertaining” account of the history of particle physics and the hunt for a Higgs boson (Library Journal).
In this extraordinarily accessible and witty book, Leon Lederman—“the most engaging physicist since the late, much-missed Richard...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Boost Your grades with this illustrated Study Guide. You will use it from college to graduate school and beyond.TABLE OF CONTENTS:Chapters: I. Laws of Science II. Classical Mechanics III. Heat, Gas, and Thermodynamics IV. Electromagnetism V. Optics VI. Atomic PhysicsAppendix: General Index Weights and...
The Physics of Nascar
The Science Behind the Speed
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008
A physicist explores the science of speed racing and the #1 spectator sport in America in the perfect gift for both NASCAR and science fans.
Every NASCAR fan—at one time or another—asks the same question: Why isn’t my favorite driver winning? This is your chance to discover how much more...
by Sheldon Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Physics is the science that deals with the properties and interrelationship of matter and energy. It studies mechanics, heat, light, sound, electricity, magnetism, radiation, and atomic structure. This tale stretches from 2000 BCE to 1945 and introduces the reader to the brilliant men and women from Thales of Miletos to Albert Einstein who working alone or collaboratively made it all possible.
by Random Press
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
The double-slit experiment has been widely discussed since the founding of quantum mechanics. Nearly all textbooks on quantum mechanics use the experiment to illustrate the wave-particle duality of light and matter. According to Richard Feynman, the double-slit experiment contains the only mystery...
by Steven L. Manly
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
As we humans have expanded our horizons to see things vastly smaller, faster, larger, and farther than ever before, we have been forced to confront preconceptions born of the human experience and create wholly new ways of looking at the world around us. The theories of relativity and quantum physics...
From Special Relativity to Feynman Diagrams
A Course in Theoretical Particle Physics for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This book, now in its second edition, provides an introductory course on theoretical particle physics with the aim of filling the gap that exists between basic courses of classical and quantum mechanics and advanced courses of (relativistic) quantum mechanics and field theory. After a concise but...
Hyperspace
A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 1994
Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus...
by Chandre Dharma-wardana
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
This is a highly interdisciplinary book straddling physics and complex systems such as living organisms. The presentation is from the perspective of physics, in a manner accessible to those interested in scientific knowledge integrated within its socio-cultural and philosophical backgrounds. Two key...
The Philosopher's Stone
Alchemy and the Secret Research for Exotic Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Prolific author Joseph P. Farrell, who commands a growing and devoted audience on Coast to Coast AM, Erskine Overnight, and other programs, initiates his Feral House association with The Philosopher’s Stone, in which he demonstrates the connections of modern physics and ancient alchemy by investigating...
The Pope of Physics
Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction and conversely...
Great Physicists
The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics. William H. Cropper vividly portrays the life and accomplishments of such giants as Galileo and Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr,...