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  • Lie Algebras In Particle Physics

    from Isospin To Unified Theories

    by Howard Georgi ...
    Series series Frontiers in Physics
    In this book, the author convinces that Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington had things a little bit wrong, as least as far as physics is concerned. He explores the theory of groups and Lie algebras and their representations to use group representations as labor-saving tools. ... Read more

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  • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

    by Carlo Rovelli ...
    **The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander“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 Times Book Review**This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics ... Read more

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  • The Einstein Theory of Relativity

    by Hendrik Antoon Lorentz ...
    Whether it is true or not that not more than twelve persons in all the world are able to understand Einstein's Theory, it is nevertheless a fact that there is a constant demand for information about this much-debated topic of relativity. The books published on the subject are so technical that only a person trained in pure physics and higher mathematics is able to fully understand them. In order ... Read more

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  • Five Of Maxwell's Papers

    by James Clerk Maxwell ...
    In the book the author has eloquently presented and explained certain phenomenon and different principles of physics. The writer has managed to give detailed description for not only the principles behind various physical phenomenons but also commented upon how to teach the science. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Galileo's Balls: Did He Really Drop Them?

    by Donald R. Miklich ...
    According to Aristotle, the speed with which an objects falls is proportional to its weight, i.e., he said heavy objects fall faster than light ones. The Italian Renaissance philosopher Galileo Galilei is widely believed to have tested this claim when he was a professor in Pisa by dropping different weight balls from its Leaning Tower. However, many historians doubt this because there is no ... Read more

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  • The Golden Section

    Nature's Greatest Secret

    by Scott Olsen ...
    What was the golden secret known to Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Plato and the ancient magicians? Can there really be a key to nature and life itself? In this small but compact volume internationally renowned divine proportion supersleuth Dr Olsen unravels perhaps the greatest mystery of all time, a code that seems to underly life, the universe and everything, a pattern we instinctively recognise as ... Read more

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  • Black Holes In A Brief History

    by Bud Stark ...
    I and millions of readers without a scientific education were delighted when Stephen Hawking published A Brief History of Time. Its purpose was to give us an insight into how science, cosmologist especially, tackle the "questions that are of interest to us all,"where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? The insight he imparted opened ... Read more

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  • Farewell To Entropy, A: Statistical Thermodynamics Based On Information

    by Arieh Ben-naim ...
    The principal message of this book is that thermodynamics and statistical mechanics will benefit from replacing the unfortunate, misleading and mysterious term “entropy” with a more familiar, meaningful and appropriate term such as information, missing information or uncertainty. This replacement would facilitate the interpretation of the “driving force” of many processes in terms of informational ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Isaac Newton on the Action at a Distance in Gravity: With or Without God?

    by Nicolae Sfetcu ...
    The interpretation of Isaac Newton's texts has sparked controversy to this day. One of the most heated debates relates to the action between two bodies distant from each other (the gravitational attraction), and to what extent Newton involved God in this case. Practically, most of the papers discuss four types of gravitational attractions in the case of remote bodies: direct distance action as ... Read more

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  • Science and Hypothesis

    by Henri Poincare ...
    "Science and Hypothesis" is a study written in 1902, by the French mathematician, Henri Poincaré. It was designed with non-specialist readers in mind, and contains information on mathematics, space, physics and biology. The main theme of this work is that the absolute truth of science is non-existent. It postulates that many scientific beliefs are closer to convenient conventions than valid ... Read more

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  • Space-Time Structure

    by Erwin Schrödinger ...
    Series series Cambridge Science Classics
    In response to repeated requests this classic book on space-time structure by Professor Erwin Schrödinger is now available in the Cambridge Science Classics series. First published in 1950, and reprinted in 1954 and 1960, this lucid and profound exposition of Einstein's 1915 theory of gravitation still provides valuable reading for students and research workers in the field. ... Read more

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  • Newton and His Apple

    Simple Newton Physics

    by Murat Ukray ...
    "Isaac Newton was a shy, quiet boy growing up on a farm in England 300 years ago. He was not a very good student and nobody paid much attention to him. Nobody that is, except the school bully. One day the bully punched Isaac in the stomach. That hurt, and that got Isaac very mad! He pulled himself up straight and fought back. Isaac pushed the bully onto the ground and rubbed his face in the mud. ... Read more

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