General Physics category: 2746 books
An Introduction to Information Theory
Symbols, Signals and Noise
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
"Uncommonly good...the most satisfying discussion to be found." — Scientific American.Behind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intriguing body of knowledge known as information theory. This is the theory that has permitted the rapid development...
What If?
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language,...
Parallel Worlds
A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2006
In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most tantalizing of all, the possibility that parallel universes may lay alongside our own.
Kaku skillfully...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Students and researchers in physics, engineering and other sciences will find this compilation of more than physical constants invaluable. All the information included is practical, rarely used results are excluded. Great care has been taken to present all results concisely and clearly. Excellent to...
Warped Passages
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familier three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and unattainable . . . for now.
Warped Passages is a brilliantly readable and altogether exhilarating journey...
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Adventures of a Curious Character
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original.
In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein...
Visions
How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
In Visions, physicist and author Michio Kaku examines the great scientific revolutions that have dramatically reshaped the twentieth century--the quantum mechanics, biogenetics, and artificial intelligence--and shows how they will change and alter science and the way we live.
The next century...
This Explains Everything
150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.
What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The...
The Big Picture
On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The instant New York Times bestseller about humanity's place in the universe—and how we understand it.
“Vivid...impressive....Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times
“Succeeds spectacularly.”—Science
“A tour de force.”—Salon
Already internationally acclaimed for...
The Shape of Inner Space
String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In The Shape of Inner Space, Shing-Tung Yau, the man who mathematically proved...
How to Build a Time Machine
The Real Science of Time Travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
A pop science look at time travel technology, from Einstein to Ronald Mallett to present day experiments. Forget fiction: time travel is real.
In How to Build a Time Machine, Brian Clegg provides an understanding of what time is and how it can be manipulated. He explores the fascinating world...
Edge of the Universe
A Voyage to the Cosmic Horizon and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
An accessible look at the mysteries that lurk at the edge of the known universe and beyond
The observable universe, the part we can see with telescopes, is incredibly vast. Yet recent theories suggest that there is far more to the universe than what our instruments record—in fact, it could...
TIME Albert Einstein
The Enduring Legacy of a Modern Genius
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Albert Einstein's immense breakthroughs in theoretical physics revolutionized our view of the cosmos and made him one of the towering figures of the 20th century, a man whose name is synonymous with genius.
Time Machine Tales
The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
This book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author's earlier books on the subject....