Physics

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For lovers of facts, students of popular culture, history buffs, and science enthusiasts, the fascinating stories behind 500 everyday items, expressions, a...

The road to global security," writes Jeremy Rifkin, "lies in lessening our dependence on Middle East oil and making sure that all people on Earth have acces...

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As a young physicist, Leonard Mlodinow looked for guidance from his mentor, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Drawing on transcripts from t...

gene Kranz Was Present At The Creation Of America's Manned Space Program And Was A Key Player In It For Three Decades. As A Flight Director In Nasa's Missi...

The science of physical hydrology centers on the physical principles involved in the study of the occurrence and movement of water on and beneath the earth...

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Provides a basic comprehensive treatment of the major electrical engineering problems associated with the design and operation of electric power systems. Th...

now Comprehensively Updated, This Classic Text Provides An Essential Foundation In Power Systems Engineering. The Emphasis On Practical Analysis And Model...

American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led t...

the Definitive Guide To The Universe, From The Solar System To The Farthest Limits Of Space, For The Whole Family Is Now Available In Paperback. Martin J....

This introduction to the history of science in the seventeenth century examines the so-called 'scientific revolution' in terms of the interplay between two ...

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David Halliday, Robert Resnick. Published In 1960 And 1962 Under Title: Physics For Students Of Science And Engineering. Includes Bibliographical References...

Uses The Star Trek Future As A Launching Pad To Discuss The Forefront Of Modern Physics Today, From Newton To Hawking, From Einstein To Feynman, From Kirk T...

The Pleasure of Finding Things Outis a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard Feynman—from interviews and speeches to lectures and printe...

The Remarkable Story Of The Trailblazers And The Ordinary Americans On The Front Lines Of The Epic Mission To Reach The Moon. President John F. Kennedy Asto...

The goal of this book is to allow you to begin with a "blank sheet of paper" and design a space mission to meet a set of broad, often poorly defined, object...

This handbook gives a complete and detailed survey of the field of semiconductor physics. It addresses every fundamental principle, the most important resea...

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These are notions so basic to our view of life that we take them for granted. But in the seventeenth century they were revolutionary, heretical, even dange...

John Barrow revisits one of the hottest topics in all of science, illuminating the modern quest to unlock the secrets of the universe. Published in 1991, ...

As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Kepler’s law of planetary motion and Newto...

Carl Jung coined the term “synchronicity” to describe meaningful coincidences that conventional notions of time and causality cannot explain. Working with...

Measurement -- Motion Along A Straight Line -- Vectors -- Motion In Two And Three Dimensions -- Force And Motion I -- Force And Motion Ii -- Kinetic Energy ...

in This Irreverent And Illuminating Book, Acclaimed Writer And Scientist Leonard Mlodinow Shows Us How Randomness, Change, And Probability Reveal A Tremend...

Since age 18, Paul Carter has worked on oil rigs in locations as far flung as the Middle East, Columbia, the North Sea, Borneo, Tunisia, Sumatra, Vietnam,...

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This introductory, one quarter/one-semester text takes a multidisciplinary approach to studying the relationship between plants and people. The authors st...

An Irreverent Look At How Randomness Influences Our Lives, And How Our Successes And Failures Are Far More Dependent On Chance Events Than We Recognize.Cate...

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says ac...

Starting with Galileo's experiments with motion, this study of 25 crucial discoveries includes Newton's laws of motion, Chadwick's study of the neutron, Her...

In Life After Life Raymond Moody investigates more than one hundred case studies of people who experienced clinical death and were subsequently revived. Fir...

During The Early Twentieth Century, The Eccentric And Brilliant Inventor Nikola Tesla Blazed The Path That Electrical Development Followed For Many Years To...

What Is Project Finance? What Makes Project Or Structured Finance So Relevant For Large Renewable Energy Infrastructure? Which Vocabulary Do I Need To Know ...

A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, Why You Love Music is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune. Music plays a hugely...

Noted for its readability, comprehensiveness and relevancy, the new fifth edition of this bestselling book provides readers with an accessible examination o...

Bruce R. Munson, Professor Emeritus of Engineering Mechanics, has been a faculty member at Iowa State university since 1974. He received his B.S. and M.S....

The worldwide bestseller Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach brings further refinement to an approach that emphasizes a physical understanding of the f...

Adapted from the Handbook of Environmental Engineering Calculations, Water and Waste Water Calculations Manual is designed as a quick-reference resource for...

Chronicles The History Of The Oil Industry And The Forces That Have Shaped The Modern World. Part I: The Founders -- Oil On The Brain: The Beginning -- Our ...

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Daniel (theoretical and applied mechanics, Center for Intelligent Processing of Composites, Northwestern University) and Ishai (mechanical engineering, Tech...

This Is The First Comprehensive, Yet Clearly Presented, Account Of Statistical Methods For Analysing Spherical Data. The Analysis Of Data, In The Form Of Di...

Introduction, Vector Functions, And Electrostatics -- Surface Integrals And The Divergence -- Line Integrals And The Curl -- The Gradient. H.m. Schey. Inclu...