Physics category: 13946 books
The Quantum Guide to Life
How the Laws of Physics Explain Our Lives from Laziness to Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
With humor and intelligence, this New York Times–bestselling guide takes you through the fascinating intersections of quantum physics and everyday life.
Physics might explain why the Earth orbits the Sun, but can it really explain our tendency to put off doing chores? In The Quantum Guide to...
Is God Unnecessary?
Why Stephen Hawking Is Wrong According to the Laws of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
When Stephen Hawking, the most famous scientist living in the twenty-first century, published The Grand Design, he provoked a lively response in the media. Hawking wrote that the laws of physics make God unnecessary when explaining the origin of the universe and everything in it.
In Is God...
Unified Principles of Physics
Black Holes, Galactic Structure, Gravity, and Dark Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The search for the “Unified Principles of Physics” which describes all that we see has long been the quest of many scientists and the general public. Newton, Einstein, Hawking and many more have all put their ideas into the flow of time … But many unanswered mysteries remained … These mysteries...
by Jennifer Ouellette
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Physics with a Buffy the Vampire Slayer pop-culture chaser
In the tradition of the bestselling The Physics of Star Trek, acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ouellette explains fundamental concepts in the physical sciences through examples culled from the hit TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
The Physics of Everyday Things
The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Physics professor, bestselling author, and dynamic storyteller James Kakalios reveals the mind-bending science behind the seemingly basic things that keep our daily lives running, from our smart phones and digital “clouds” to x-ray machines and hybrid vehicles.
Most of us are clueless when...
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III
The New Millennium Edition: Quantum Mechanics
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 the basic...
Time Reborn
From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
A radical new view of the nature of time and the cosmos—“at once entertaining, thought-provoking, fabulously ambitious and fabulously speculative” (The New York Times Book Review).
What is time?
This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science...
Thirty Years that Shook Physics
The Story of Quantum Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
"Dr. Gamow, physicist and gifted writer, has sketched an intriguing portrait of the scientists and clashing ideas that made the quantum revolution." — Christian Science Monitor
In 1900, German physicist Max Planck postulated that light, or radiant energy, can exist only in the form of...
by Martinus J G Veltman
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the universe works. We are introduced to the known particles of the world we live in. An elegant explanation of quantum mechanics and relativity paves the way for...
Building the H Bomb
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
IN THE NEWSQ&A: Kenneth Ford on Textbooks, Popularizations, and Scientific SecrecyPhysics Today, June 2017Building the H Bomb: A Personal HistoryForum on Physics and Society, January 2017Don McCauley's audio interview with Kenneth FordThe Authors Show, 11 August 2016Mt....
by David C. Cassidy
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Born into a wealthy, secular New York Jewish family, a student of the Ethical Culture School in New York, later educated in theoretical physics at Harvard, Cambridge (UK) and Göttingen (Germany), appointed professor at UC-Berkeley and Caltech, J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was on the forefront...
by Roger Schlafly
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Einstein is considered the world's greatest genius for creating the theory of relativity. How Einstein Ruined Physics explains relativity, how it was discovered, and how it fits into a long history of trying to understand motion and symmetry. The book shows that Einstein's role is badly misunderstood.
Modern...
by Joanne Baker
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
We encounter physics before we've even left the house in the morning; an alarm clock tracks time, a mirror reflects light waves and our mobile phones rely on satellites held in their orbit by gravity.
Where would we be without the Bernoulli equation to explain how planes fly, electromagnetic...
by Brian Clegg
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Enter the invisible world of sub-atomic physics and discover the very core of existence. Cracking Quantum Physics takes you through every area of particle physics to clearly explain how our world was, and is, created, and breaks down the most complex theories into easily understandable elements.
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