Physics category: 13946 books
Most Wanted Particle
The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Now in paperback: the “vivid account of what the process of discovery was really like for an insider.”—Peter Higgs
Particle physics as we know it depends on the Higgs boson: It’s the missing link between the birth of our universe—as a sea of tiny, massless particles—and the tangible...
The Telescope in the Ice
Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
IceCube Observatory, a South Pole instrument making the first actual observations of high-energy neutrinos, has been called the “weirdest” of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the...
More and Different
Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Named a Top Five Book of 2012 by Physics Today, USA.
Philip Anderson was educated at University High School in Urbana, Illinois, at Harvard (BS 1943, PhD 1949), and further educated at Bell Laboratories, where his career (1949-1984) coincided with the greatest period of that remarkable institution....
The New Physics of Consciousness
Reconciling Science and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
For centuries Western scientists have been grappling with the many unanswered questions that modern physics pose. These contradictions come about due to the fact that modern physics is based on the ancient Greek concept of Materialism which also argued that religion and spirituality are far removed...
Consciousness and Cosmos
Proposal for a New Paradigm Based on Physics and Inrospection
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Your memories and feelings could be stored in matter based on non-physical atoms. This book takes the unique approach of recognizing that mental and spiritual phenomena can be observed in the same way that scientists observe physical phenomena. The book shows how all phenomena can be explained by...
by Sir James H. Jeans
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
A noted scientist illuminates the intertwined paths of philosophy and science from Plato to the present, and examines the transition from Newtonian classical mechanics to modern relativistic physics.
by Aristotle,R. P. Hardie (Translator),R. K. Gaye (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Physics (or "Physica", or "Physicae Auscultationes" meaning "lessons") is a key text in the philosophy of Aristotle. It inaugurates the current Andronichean order, the long series of Aristotle's physical, cosmological and biological works, and is preliminary to them. This collection of treatises...
by Doug West
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018
In the movies we often see a scientist portrayed as a quiet and pious man or woman dressed in a white lab coat engrossed in deep thought. This image surely fits some; however, not the twentieth-century New Zealander Ernest Rutherford, or Lord Rutherford as he would be known later in life. He was born...
Quantum Physics For Beginners
Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Theory Explained
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
We may have lived knowing that the world around us operates in a way as if we observe them to be. This knowledge of how the universe operates, based primarily of our observations, has enabled us to predict actions and motions and allowed us to build machines and equipments that have made our lives...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
From all the sides you are surrounded completely by scientific inventions which came into being due to the theories discovered by scientists a long time ago. Science, however, is a vast topic which is further divided into several prances of which one is Quantum Physics whose implementations are playing...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
From the spectra of hydrogen to the cosmic showers, and the Gamma ray bursts, several interesting concepts of Nuclear physics are discussed in the useful notes that are dedicated to all levels of readers.
The Quantum Story:A history in 40 moments
A history in 40 moments
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very depths of human despair. This was a century that began with the certainties of absolute knowledge...
The Logical Leap
Induction in Physics
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
A groundbreaking solution to the problem of induction, based on Ayn Rand's theory of concepts.
Inspired by and expanding on a series of lectures presented by Leonard Peikoff, David Harriman presents a fascinating answer to the problem of induction-the epistemological question of how we can...
by Neeti Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Physical Laws of the Mathematical Universe: Who Are We? sets off from the first page on an arduous and ambitious journey to define and describe a comprehensive depiction of reality that embraces the rigors of physics, the elegance of mathematics, and the intricacies of human perception. Neeti Sinha...