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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the core of Einstein's general theory of relativity are a set of equations that explain the relationship among gravity, space, and time--possibly the most perfect intellectual achievement of modern physics. For over a century, physicists have been exploring, debating, and at times neglecting Einstein's theory in their quest to uncover the history of the universe, the origin of time, and the evolution of solar systems, stars, and galaxies. In this...
Author
Series
Stafford Little lectures volume 1921
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1955.
Edition
Fifth edition, including the Relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field.
Physical Desc
166 pages : diagrams ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Van Nostrand momentum books volume 9
Publisher
Published for the Commission on College Physics [by] D. Van Nostrand
Pub. Date
[1964]
Physical Desc
132 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (13 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide.
Language
English
Description
The inhabitants of Mammoth Island learn about electricity during the annual lemon harvest. They learn how current and static electricity are different and what metals make the best conductors of electricity.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
114 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Centering around a story involving the fight over an amusement park and a physics laboratory, describes how physics affects daily life and can be fun, including understanding the physics of sports, roller coasters, weather, and music.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek's groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature. In fact, every major advance in his career came from...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 228 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"How does the physics we know today-- a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry-- link back to its origins as a liberal art in ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels? John Heilbron's...
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