Physics category: 13946 books
by Victor Weisskopf
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist by Victor Weisskopf (126,000 words, 57 illustrations)
In the 1930s, Victor Weisskopf worked with leading European physicists such as Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac and Wolfgang Pauli. His memoir recounts in simple language how quantum mechanics...
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...
The Cosmic Code
Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
"The Cosmic Code can be read by anyone. I heartily recommend it!" — The New York Times Book Review
"A reliable guide for the nonmathematical reader across the highest ridges of physical theory. Pagels is unfailingly lighthearted and confident." — Scientific American
"A...
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
by Patricia Rife, J.A. Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
This biography of Lise Meitner (1878-1968), the Austrian Jewish female physicist at the heart of the discovery of nuclear fission, also looks at major developments in physics during her life. Meitner was a colleague and friend of many giants of 20th century physics: Max Planck, her Berlin mentor,...
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.
The Infancy of Atomic Physics
Hercules in His Cradle
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Atomic physics is a mighty Hercules that dominates modern civilization, promising immense reserves of power but threatening catastrophic war and radioactive pollution. The story of the atom's discovery and the development of techniques to harness its energy offers fascinating insights into the forces...
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 Louis H Kauffman
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
This invaluable book is an introduction to knot and link invariants as generalized amplitudes for a quasi-physical process. The demands of knot theory, coupled with a quantum-statistical framework, create a context that naturally and powerfully includes an extraordinary range of interrelated topics...
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...