General Physics category: 2746 books
Physics on the Fringe
Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
For the past fifteen years, acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting the works of "outsider physicists," many without formal training and all convinced that they have found true alternative theories of the universe. Jim Carter, the Einstein of outsiders, has developed his own...
Black Bodies and Quantum Cats
Tales from the Annals of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Physics, once known as "natural philosophy," is the most basic science, explaining the world we live in, from the largest scale down to the very, very, very smallest, and our understanding of it has changed over many centuries. In Black Bodies and Quantum Cats, science writer Jennifer...
Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat
How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
"A fascinating and thought-provoking story, one that sheds light on the origins of... the current challenging situation in physics."
--Wall Street Journal
When the fuzzy indeterminacy of quantum mechanics overthrew the orderly world of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Erwin...
Strange Beauty
Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
With a New Afterword
"Our knowledge of fundamental physics contains not one fruitful idea that does not carry the name of Murray Gell-Mann."--Richard Feynman
Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray...
Bankrupting Physics
How Today's Top Scientists are Gambling Away Their Credibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The recently celebrated discovery of the Higgs boson has captivated the public's imagination with the promise that it can explain the origins of everything in the universe. It's no wonder that the media refers to it grandly as the "God particle." Yet behind closed doors, physicists are admitting...
J. Robert Oppenheimer:A Life
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The late Abraham Pais wrote the definitive biography of Albert Einstein, "Subtle is the Lord," which won an American Book Award. As a distinguished physicist and Einstein's colleague, Pais combined a sophisticated understanding of physics with first-hand knowledge of this notoriously private...
First You Build a Cloud
And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This clearly written and compelling look at physics and physicists offers “thousands of new ways to see our daily world more richly” (Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach).
For many of us, physics has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. K. C. Cole, an award-winning...
by P. Paul Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
8 core principles of physics very succinctly explores the concepts that I believe to be the most essential in physics
Revolutions in Physics
Exploring the Evolution and State of Modern Physics and the Possibilities That a New Paradigm Holds for Human Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Revolutions in Physics is a sweeping history of the development of concepts of space, time, mass and force through the ages; it then culminates in a robust and courageous exploration of the emergent view that space-time is actually a highly potent energetic medium, capable of supporting entirely new classes of energy, propulsion, communications and health sciences technologies.
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
The Advanced Physics Series: Energy Transfers
Do you love physics? Do you love to learn about Energy Transfers and how many occur in our society? If you do; this is the e book is for you. This e book contains information on the different types of energy transfers, and how one type of energy...
Quantum Enigma
Physics Encounters Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
The most successful theory in all of science--and the basis of one third of our economy--says the strangest things about the world and about us. Can you believe that physical reality is created by our observation of it? Physicists were forced to this conclusion, the quantum enigma, by what they observed...
by Frank Close
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2004
In this compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe, Frank Close takes us on a journey into the atom to examine known particles such as quarks, electrons, and the ghostly neutrino. Along the way he provides fascinating insights into how discoveries in particle physics...
by Jim Breithaupt
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Understanding Physics is a short, simple and to-the-point guide. In just 96 pages, the reader will learn all the basics, from atoms...
by Tim Akrill, Graham George
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Physics
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2017
Endorsed for Edexcel
Help students to build and develop the essential knowledge and skills needed, provide practical assessment guidance and plenty of support for the new mathematical...