Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspired by the fantastic worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Back to the Future, the renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation takes an informed, serious, and often surprising look at what our current understanding of the universe's physical laws may permit in the near and distant future.
Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar...
Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar...
Author
Language
English
Description
"[Greene] shows us how, from its original orderly state the universe has been moving inexorably toward chaos, and, still, remarkable structures have continually formed: the planets, stars, and galaxies that provide islands in a sea of disorder; biochemical mechanisms, including mutation and selection, animate life; neurons, information, and thought developed into complex consciousness which in turn gave rise to cultures and their timeless myths and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time)deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions--Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?--and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory, " a collection of overlapping theories (including string theory) that fill...
Author
Language
English
Description
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
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
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial. Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos is as close as the nearest toaster? In Storm in a Teacup, Helen Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking ordinary objects...
10) Emerging physics
Publisher
Pearson
Pub. Date
Ã2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations, portraits
Language
English
Description
This book is designed as per the new Curriculum conceived for the students of B.Sc. (Physics). Although the approach is primarily qualitative, a reasonably large number of illustrative examples and segregated exercises are included, wherever possible, to ensure that the students develop a taste of real rigour of physics.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents six of the easiest chapters from the Nobel Prize winner's celebrated text Lectures in Physics, originally published in 1963, which comprised the lectures he prepared for undergraduate students at Caltech in the early 1960s. Addressing key topics in largely qualitative terms without formal mathematics, the six selections discuss atoms in motion, basic physics, the relation of physics to other sciences, conservation of energy, the theory of...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
©2005
Edition
7th ed., extended ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
No other book on the market today can match the 30-year success of Halliday, Resnick and Walker's Fundamentals of Physics! Fundamentals of Physics, 7th Edition and the Extended Version, 7th Edition offer a solid understanding of fundamental physics concepts, helping readers apply this conceptual understanding to quantitative problem solving, in a breezy, easy-to-understand style. A unique combination of authoritative content and stimulating applications....
Author
Publisher
Pearson
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Applied Physics is designed to cater to the needs of first year undergraduate engineering students of Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University (J.N.T.U). Written in a lucid style, this book assimilates the best practices of conceptual pedagogy, dealin.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. Physics informs our understanding of how the world works - but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to understand how particular breakthroughs were achieved, meet the individuals responsible and see how each breakthrough has influenced our lives. It...
Author
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
Ã2014
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvii, 221 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
In the 300 years since Newton's seminal work, physics has explained many things that used to be mysterious. Particularly in the last century, physics has addressed a range of questions, from the smallest fundamental particles to the large-scale structure and history of the entire universe. But there are always more questions.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Library edition.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 1,080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (72 pages each ; 22 cm).
Language
English
Description
"This course introduces principles of physics through their application to everyday life"--Guidebook.
Interlibrary loan through ILLiad
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Knox County Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your pickup location.
Suggest a purchase
If it is too new for interlibrary loan (6 months), you can place a suggestion with us. Suggest a Purchase