Physics
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Radiative TransferRadiative Transfer is the definitive work in the field. It provides workers and students in physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, and atmospheric studies with the foundation for the analysis of stellar atmospheres, planetary illumination, and sky radiation. Though radiative transfer has been investigated chiefly as...
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Atom: A Single Oxygen Atom's Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth... and BeyondThe story of matter and the history of the cosmos from the perspective of a single oxygen atom, told with the insight and wit of one of the most dynamic physicists and writers working today. Through this astonishing work, he manages to stoke wonder...
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Falling Felines and Fundamental PhysicsHow do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve other seemingly impossible puzzles The question of how falling cats land on their feet has long intrigued humans. In this playful and eye-opening history,...
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Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our UniverA heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in between The overwhelming majority of celestial space is inactive and will remain forever unruffled. Similarly, more than 90 percent of the universe's 70...
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The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden GeometryA Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape--the Calabi-Yau manifold--that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe. "An unexpectedly intimate look into a highly accomplished man, his colleagues and friends, the development of a new field of geometric...
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Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of EverythingNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSIn a memoir of family bonding and cutting-edge physics for readers of Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality and Jim Holt's Why Does the World Exist?, Amanda Gefter tells the story of how she...
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The international scientific series, volume 7The conservation of energyWe may regard the Universe in the light of a vast physical machine, and our knowledge of it may be conveniently divided into two branches. The one of these embraces what we know regarding the structure of the machine itself, and...
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Lightning, Thunder and Lightning ConductorsLightning, Thunder and Lightning ConductorsThe electricity produced by an ordinary electric machine exhibits, under certain conditions, phenomena which bear a striking resemblance to the phenomena attendant on lightning. In both cases there is a flash of light; in both there is a report, which,...
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Einstein and the universe: A popular exposition of the famous theoryEinstein and the universe: A popular exposition of the famous theoryThis book is not a romance. Nevertheless.... If love is, as Plato says, a soaring toward the infinite, where shall we find more love than in the impassioned curiosity which impels us, with bowed...
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Gilbert Weather Bureau (Meteorology) for BoysGilbert Weather Bureau (Meteorology) for BoysIn the minds of most people a very silly notion prevails about the weather and the weather man. They have a general impression that the weather knows no lawsthat it is lawless and reckless, fickle and changeable; that the...
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Harper's modern science seriesThe A B C of RelativityEverybody knows that Einstein has done something astonishing, but very few people know exactly what it is that he has done. It is generally recognized that he has revolutionized our conception of the physical world, but his new conceptions...
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The Principle of RelativityThe Principle of RelativityLord Kelvin writing in 1893, in his preface to the English edition of Hertzs Researches on Electric Waves, says many workers and many thinkers have helped to build up the nineteenth century school of plenum, one ether for light, heat, electricity,...
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Our Nuclear Future: Facts, Dangers and OpportunitiesOur Nuclear Future: Facts, Dangers and OpportunitiesThis book has been written for the layman who has no knowledge about atoms, bombs and radioactivity. He knows that the world is made of atoms, that bombs might destroy it and that radioactivity could make it a...
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Understanding the Atom SeriesOur Atomic World: The Story of Atomic EnergyNuclear energy is playing a vital role in the life of every man, woman, and child in the United States today. In the years ahead it will affect increasingly all the peoples of the earth. It is...
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A Treatise on MechanicsA Treatise on MechanicsThe text of this e-book has mostly been preserved in its original form including some inconsistency of hyphenation and use of diacritics (aeriform/ariform). Three spelling typos have been corrected (arrangment arrangement, pully pulley, dye die) as have typos in equations on...
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The century science seriesMichael Faraday, His Life and WorkShortly after the death of Faraday in 1867, three biographies of himeach admirable in its own linewere published. The Life and Letters of Faraday, by Dr. Bence Jones, secretary of the Royal Institution, which was issued in 1868 in...
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James Clerk Maxwell and Modern PhysicsJames Clerk Maxwell and Modern PhysicsThe task of giving some account of Maxwells workof describing the share that he has taken in the advance of Physical Science during the latter half of this nineteenth centuryhas proved no light labour. The problems which he attacked...
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Museum of New Mexico Press, Popular Series Pamphlet No. 2How Old Is It? The Story of Dating in ArcheaologyThere is a whole field of science devoted to the invention and development of dating methodsor clocks as we may think of them. It is called geochronology, the science of dating events. There are relatively...
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The Wonders of OpticsThe Wonders of OpticsThe present work needs but little introduction to the English public. The author, M. F. Marion, who holds a high official scientific position in Paris, is well known, especially in Europe, as a popular writer on the Wonders of Optics, and...
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Cambridge physical seriesRadio-ActivityI feel that some apology is due to my readers for bringing out at such an early date a new edition which includes so much new material, and in which the rearrangement is so extensive as to constitute almost a new work. Though only...
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