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Include books by the same authorWhat If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe · 312 pages
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
Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences
Mary L. Boas · 793 pages
Updates the original, comprehensive introduction to the areas of mathematical physics encountered in advanced courses in the physical sciences. Intuition and computational abilities are stressed. Original material on DE and multiple integrals has been expanded.
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Richard Feynman · 146 pages
"It was Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. From 1961 to 1963, Feynman delivered a series of lectures at the California Institute of Technology that revolutionized the teaching of physics around the world. 'Six Not-So-Easy Pieces', taken from these famous 'Lectures on Physics' represent some the most s
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 3
Richard Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew L. Sands · 384 pages
Introduction to Electrodynamics
David J. Griffiths · 576 pages
This is an undergraduate-level text to introduce students to the basic concepts of electrodynamics.
Modern Quantum Mechanics
J.J. Sakurai · 500 pages
A very standard textbook followed globally for undergraduate and graduate school quantum physics courses.
Physics for Scientists and Engineers
Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett Jr. · 1,248 pages
*A comprehensive, calculus-based introductory physics textbook designed for science and engineering majors. It presents the fundamental principles of physics-from mechanics and thermodynamics to electromagnetism, optics, and modern physics-with a strong emphasis on clear explanation, real-world applications, and systematic problem-solving. The book begins each topic with concrete observations and
University Physics with Modern Physics
Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman · 1,714 pages
Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy
Robert M. Hazen, James S. Trefil · 294 pages
Knowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to cultural literacy. But most books on science are often too obscure or too specialized to do the general reader much good.Science Matters is a rare exception-a science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be a popular textbook for introductory courses in high school and college, and yet well-written enough
The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow: A Book About Color
Joanna Cole, Jocelyn Stevenson · 32 pages
The class rides into a whitelight pinball machine to learn about the dazzling wonders of color and light.
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
Lisa Randall · 422 pages
"Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. What was its origin? In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the Solar System passed through a disk of da
Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Neil deGrasse Tyson · 352 pages
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin · 721 pages
Biography of American physicist Robert J. Oppenheimer. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Origins: 14 Bllion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith · 336 pages
"Drawing on the current cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins explains the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the universe while capturing the importance of such extraordinary events as the first image of a galaxy being born and the exploration of Martian frontiers by Spirit Rover. Distilling complex science into clear and lively prose, coauthors N
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch · 487 pages
"A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the uni
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Timothy Ferris · 495 pages
From the second-century celestial models of Ptolemy to modern-day research institutes and quantum theory, this classic book offers a breathtaking tour of astronomy and the brilliant, eccentric personalities who have shaped it. From the first time mankind had an inkling of the vast space that surrounds us, those who study the universe have had to struggle against political and religious preconcepti
The Hunt for Vulcan: . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
Thomas Levenson · 226 pages
"The captivating, all-but-forgotten story of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and the search for a planet that never existed."--Amazon.com.
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
Steven Weinberg · 416 pages
"Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world--they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to unders
The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World
Amit Goswami, Richard E. Reed, Maggie Goswami · 320 pages
Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence, declares University of Oregon physicist Goswami, echoing the mystic sages of his native India. He holds that the universe is self-aware, and that consciousness creates the physical world.
Nothing: From Absolute Zero to Cosmic Oblivion - Amazing Insights into Nothingness
Jeremy Webb · 266 pages
"Nothing needs a rethink: all too easily, we ignore or dismiss the faxcinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence. For centuries, scientist have known that nothing may in fact be the key to understanding everything, from the true nature of consciousness to the expansion of the cosmos. Because without nothing -- or rather, what we've long taken to be nothing -- we'd be literally nowhere.