Physics
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The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics
$29.99 Add to cartRichard Feynman once quipped that “Time is what happens when nothing else does.” But Julian Barbour disagrees: if nothing happened, if nothing changed, then time would stop. For time is nothing but ch… [more below]
- Author: Barbour, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 29 2001
- ISBN10: 0195145925
- Language: English
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Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space
$12.99 Add to cartOn July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For fort
- Author: Randall, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0062300474
- Language: English
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Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World
$20.00 Add to cartA series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of discovery and debate in physicists’ ongoing quest to understand the quantum world.
The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly- Author: Kaiser, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 16 2022
- ISBN10: 022681999X
- Language: English
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Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life
$49.92 Add to cartA fresh look at electricity and its powerful role in life on Earth
When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices–- Author: Jorgensen, Timothy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0691197830
- Language: English
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Radio and Radar Astronomy Projects for Beginners
$37.99 Add to cart- Series: Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy
- Author: Arnold, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: October 23 2020
- ISBN10: 3030549054
- Language: English
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Physics I Workbook for Dummies with Online Practice
$29.99 Add to cartNail your next physics exam and prepare yourself for the next level of physics education
Physics isn’t the easiest part of high school, but it doesn’t have to be pull-your-hair-out hard. In Physics I
- Author: The Experts at Dummies
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1119716470
- Language: English
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Physics: A Complete Introduction
$19.99 Read morePhysics does not have to be daunting. This book, complete with practice questions and answers, forms a course which will take you from beginner or intermediate level to having a confident grasp of phy… [more below]
- Series: Teach Yourself
- Author: Breithaupt, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1529397928
- Language: English
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The Northern Lights: Celestial Performances of the Aurora Borealis
$22.95 Add to cartThe northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, put on remarkable shows of light and motion in high latitudes–Alaska being the perfect place to see them. Shot with ultra-high definition camer… [more below]
- Author: Pederson, Daryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1632170019
- Language: English
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The Greatest Story Ever Told–So Far: Why Are We Here?
$18.99 Add to cartFrom award-winning physicist, public intellectual, and the bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing Lawrence Krauss, comes “a masterful blend of history, modern physics, and cosmic perspective th… [more below]
- Author: Krauss, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1476777624
- Language: English
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Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality
$27.00 Add to cartThe intellectual adventure story of the “double-slit” experiment, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself–and cont… [more below]
- Author: Ananthaswamy, Anil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1101986107
- Language: English
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The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity
$29.95 Read moreA world-renowned physicist seeks gravity’s true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life
Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with- Author: de Rham, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0691237484
- Language: English
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Symmetry
$19.95 Add to cartSymmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century’s greatest mathematicians. Hermann Weyl explores the concept of symmetry beginni
- Series: Princeton Science Library #47
- Author: Weyl, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173257
- Language: English
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Gamma: Exploring Euler’s Constant
$21.95 Add to cartAmong the many constants that appear in mathematics, π, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is y, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a
- Series: Princeton Science Library #53
- Author: Havil, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0691178100
- Language: English
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Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics (a Serious Comic on Entanglement)
$22.95 Read moreAn eccentric comic about the central mystery of quantum mechanics
Totally Random is a comic for the serious reader who wants to really understand the central mystery of quantum mechanics–entanglement- Author: Bub, Tanya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0691176957
- Language: English
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The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
$19.99 Add to cart“Fascinating . . . One of the most important stories in the history of science.”– Washington Post
In recent years, a handful of scientists has been racing to explain a disturbing aspect of our univer- Author: Panek, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0547577575
- Language: English
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200 Puzzling Physics Problems: With Hints and Solutions
$35.00 Add to cartThis text will strengthen a student’s ability to apply the laws of physics to practical situations and problems that yield more easily to intuitive insight than to complex mathematics. These problems,… [more below]
- Author: Gn?dig, P
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0521774802
- Language: English
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Linear Operators for Quantum Mechanics
$12.95 Add to cartCompact treatment highlights logic and simplicity of the mathematical structure of quantum mechanics. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it treats the language of quantum mech… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Mathematics
- Author: Jordan, Thomas F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: November 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0486453294
- Language: English
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Introduction to Light
$14.95 Add to cartDesigned for a nonmathematical undergraduate optics course addressed to art majors, this four-part treatment discusses the nature and manipulation of light, vision, and color. 170 black-and-white illu… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Waldman, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 14 2002
- ISBN10: 048642118X
- Language: English
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Astronomical Sketching: A Step-By-Step Introduction
$59.99 Add to cartDespite the existence of a wide variety of drawing media and techniques, there is until now no comprehensive treatment of astronomical sketching. This book presents the amateur with fine examples of a
- Series: Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy
- Author: Handy, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: June 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0387262407
- Language: English
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God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science’s Strangest Phenomenon
$22.00 Add to cartThe phenomenon that Einstein thought too spooky and strange to be true
What is entanglement? It’s a connection between quantum particles, the building blocks of the universe. Once two particles are en- Author: Clegg, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 21 2009
- ISBN10: 031255530X
- Language: English
