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Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This book is an attempt to share some of the fascinating and exciting ideas of modern theoretical physics with a non-mathematical audience. I also hope to give some appreciation of the exceptionally creative people who have generated these ideas. I had no intention of writing a comprehensive history of these ideas, however; I apologize to those physicists whose important contributions I may have omitted. Several people have contributed directly to...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
How do students learn about physics without picking up a 1,000-page textbook chock-full of complicated equations? The Physicist's World is the answer. Here, Thomas Grissom explains clearly and succinctly what physics really is, the science of understanding how everything in the universe moves.
From the earliest efforts by Pre-Socratic philosophers contemplating motion to the principal developments of physics through the end of the twentieth century,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 269 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An introduction to cosmology instructs readers on how to recognize cosmic qualities in the everyday world, from the paradoxical size of atoms versus light waves to the ways in which television static reflects the origins of the universe.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
470 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all--from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel. Describing the latest discoveries in astrophysics, the informative and entertaining...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The authors-- one a philosopher, the other a physicist-- draw on their training and six years of co-teaching to dramatize the quantum's rocky path from scientific theory to public understanding while also exploring the quantum's manifestations in everything from art and sculpture to the prose of John Updike and David Foster Wallace.
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Using a bold, graphics-led approach, [this book] sets out more than 80 of the key concepts and discoveries that have defined the subject [of physics] and influenced our technology since the beginning of time. With the focus ... on unpacking the thought behind each theory--as well as exploring when and how each idea and breakthrough came about--[seven] themed chapters examine the history and developments in specific areas such as light, sound, and...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of the world's most celebrated science writers reveals the origins of Einstein's General Theory-- and provides a greater understanding of who Einstein was at the time of this pivotal achievement"--
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as prominent author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that simple idea in mind, Bennett begins an entertaining introduction to Einstein's theories of relativity, describing the amazing phenomena readers would actually experience if they took a trip to a black hole....
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Five Equations That Changed the World, Dr. Michael Guillen, known to millions as the Science Editor on ABC-TV's Good Morning America, tells the amazing stories of the people and discoveries that led to the five most powerful and important scientific achievements in human history. In doing so, Dr. Guillen reveals in simple, everyday language the secret world of mathematics. It was through the brilliance of these five fascinating people: a sickly...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
vi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide to high-energy physics from the early twentieth century to the present, including such highlights as Ernest Rutherford's 1911 explanation of the nucleus, the newly discovered Higgs boson, and anecdotes about famous physicists.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality. Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe but those insights come in the form of equations...