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Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Following his previous volumes, The Science Book and The Math Book, acclaimed science writer Clifford Pickover returns with a richly illustrated chronology of physics, containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwells demon, The Physics Book extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
""A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. Butbefore she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she...
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Explore the laws and theories of physics in this accessible introduction to the forces that shape our Universe, our planet, and our everyday lives. Using a bold, graphic-led approach The Physics Book sets out more than 80 key concepts and discoveries that have defined the subject and influenced our technology since the beginning of time. With the focus firmly on unpicking the thought behind each theory - as well as exploring when and how each idea...
9) Isaac Newton
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life story of Isaac Newton, his study of light and gravity, and his development of the three laws of motion.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1966
Language
English
Description
A republication of the 1938 text in which scientists Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld provide an account of the growth of ideas in physical science, discussing the rise and decline of the mechanical view, field theory and relativity, and quanta.
11) Galileo
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life story of Galileo, his use of an improved telescope to study the Earth's movement around the sun, and how his theories put him into conflict with the religious leaders of his time.
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