Physics category: 13946 books
by Carlo Rovelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
**The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems
“One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York...
Theoretical Physics
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
This authoritative volume by a renowned Russian scientist offers advanced students a thorough background in theoretical physics. The treatment's review of basic methods takes an approach that's as rigorous and systematic as it is practical.Chiefly devoted to mechanics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics,...
The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays
and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
E=mc2: It may be Einstein’s most well-known contribution to modern science, but how many people understand the thought process or physics behind this famous equation?
In this collection of his seven most important essays on physics, Einstein guides his reader step-by-step through the many...
Farewell to Reality
How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
From acclaimed science author Jim Baggot, a lively, provocative, and “intellectually gratifying” critique of modern theoretical physics (The Economist).
Where does one draw the line between solid science and fairy-tale physics? Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental...
by Brian Clegg, Scientific American
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Scientific American's daily Sixty-Second Science podcast was such an unexpected success, with millions of downloads, that a spin-off site was created around the concept of bite-sized science. This new series of books will tackle the biggest topics in science by breaking them up into quick and easy...
Reality Is Not What It Seems
The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
“The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they’re calling the next Stephen Hawking.” —**The Times Magazine
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.**
What...
by Murat Uhrayoglu
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2011
"Electricity is a form of energy. Electricity is the flow of electrons. All matter is made up of atoms, and an atom has a center, called a nucleus. The nucleus contains positively charged particles called protons and uncharged particles called neutrons. The nucleus of an atom is surrounded by...
by Richard A. Muller
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
From the celebrated author of the best-selling Physics for Future Presidents comes “a provocative, strongly argued book on the fundamental nature of time” (Lee Smolin).
You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? "Now" has bedeviled philosophers,...
Theory of Quantum Physics
Scientific Concepts, #5
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
This book provides a beginner’s guide to this difficult and rarely understood topic.
Quantum Physics is not generally easily understood and is a mystery to most people. Along with the theory of relativity, is one of the two major revolutionary ideas that shook the world of physics to the...
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...
Networks on Networks
The Physics of Geobiology and Geochemistry
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Order from chaos is simultaneously a mantra of physics and a reality in biology. Physicist Norman Packard suggested that life developed and thrives at the edge of chaos. Questions remain, however, as to how much practical knowledge of biology can be traced to existing physical principles, and how...
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...
Einstein Wrote Back
My Life in Physics
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
John W. Moffat was a poor student of math and science. That is, until he read Einstein’s famous paper on general relativity. Realizing instantly that he had an unusual and unexplained aptitude for understanding the complex physics described in the paper, Moffat wrote a letter to Einstein that would...