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e-books in Physics category
Life, the Universe and Everything: 42 Fundamental Questionsby Roland E. Allen, Suzy Lidstrom - arXiv.org , 2018
We consider 42 questions which must be answered on the road to full enlightenment, and we attempt a first draft of these questions, on topics ranging from the cosmological constant and origin of the universe to the origin of life and consciousness.
(7772 views)
Unification in One Dimensionby David J. Jackson - arXiv , 2016
A physical theory of the world is presented under the unifying principle that all of nature is laid out before us and experienced through the passage of time. The one-dimensional progression in time is opened out into a multi-dimensional flow ...
(8206 views)
What is Motionby Boris Dmitriev - QuantaOfMotion.com , 2010
The author created the universal theory of motion meeting the requirements of natural science that continuously grow. A reader is supposed to have sufficient knowledge of general problems of modern physics to comprehensively read this study.
(24752 views)
The New Physics and Its Evolutionby Lucien Poincare - D. Appleton and Company , 1909
This book, while avoiding purely technical details, tries to make known the general results at which physicists have lately arrived, and indicates the direction and import which should be ascribed to those speculations on the constitution of matter.
(18993 views)
The Dimensional Structure of Consciousnessby Samuel Avery - Compari , 1995
A radical interpretation of modern physics. Rather than consciousness existing in space and time, it is suggested that the strange phenomena associated with quantum physics are better understood if space and time are structures within consciousness.
(14317 views)
Unfolding the Labyrinth: Open Problems in Mathematics, Physics, Astrophysicsby Florentin Smarandache, at al. - arXiv , 2006
Throughout this book, the authors discuss some open problems in various branches of science, including mathematics, theoretical physics, astrophysics, geophysics, etc. Some parts of these problems may be found useful for scholarly stimulation.
(23545 views)
Order-of-Magnitude Physicsby P. Goldreich, S. Mahajan, S. Phinney - University of Cambridge , 1999
This book teaches the art of approximation: dimensional analysis, guessing, and lying. To illustrate these techniques, we study the physics of everyday phenomena. The audience for the book includes graduates and upper-level undergraduates in physics.
(17607 views)
The Open Agenda: Ideas a beginning physics teacher should not take for grantedby John Daicopoulos - RenegadeScience.com , 2009
A short book on those fundamental day-to-day nuances and habits every physics teacher needs to do in order to teach the physics content. Based on almost twenty years of teaching high school and first-year university physics.
(16674 views)
Theoretical Physicsby A. S. Kompaneyets - Foreign Languages Publishing House , 1961
Rigorous, systematic study by renowned physicist offers advanced students a thorough background in mechanics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, stressing atomic, nuclear, and microscopic matters.
(26244 views)
Physics for Entertainmentby Yakov Perelman - Foreign Languages Publishing House , 1913
Conundrums, brain-teasers, entertaining anecdotes, and unexpected comparisons. Published in 1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, the book Physics for Entertainment influenced science students around the world.
(44167 views)
The Clock and the Arrow: A Brief Theory of Timeby Claes Johnson , 2008
The basic idea of this book is to study the concept of time viewing the World as the result of some form of computation of finite precision. This is a modification the classical mechanistic idea of the World as a clock of infinite precision.
(17803 views)
The Nature of the Physical Worldby Arthur S. Eddington - The Macmillan Company , 1928
Lectures that Eddington delivered in 1927. It treats the philosophical outcome of the great changes of scientific thought which had come about. The theory of relativity and the quantum theory led to strange new conceptions of the physical world.
(16059 views)
Physics Formularyby Johan Wevers , 2008
This 108 pages document contains a lot of equations in physics. It is written at advanced undergraduate/postgraduate level. It is intended to be a short reference for anyone who works with physics and often needs to look up equations.
(28476 views)
The People's Physics Bookby James H. Dann, James J. Dann - SCIPP , 2006
A textbook for high school and college physics students and teachers. It is intended to be used as one small part of a multifaceted strategy to teach physics conceptually and mathematically. It is intended as a reference guide and problem text.
(28111 views)
GRE Physics Test Practice Book- Educational Testing Service , 2011
The test consists of approximately 100 five-choice questions, based on diagrams, experimental data, and descriptions of physical situations. Questions can be answered on the basis of a mastery of the first three years of undergraduate physics.
(18955 views)
Handbook of Formulae and Physical Constants- Power Engineering Training Systems , 2003
For the use of students and examination candidates, approved by the Interprovincial Power Engineering Curriculum Committee and the Provincial Chief Inspectors' Association's Committee for the standardization of Power Engineer's Examinations in Canada.
(22585 views)
Modelling Rationality... and Beyond the Physicsby Gh. C. Dinulescu-Campina - American Research Press , 2002
The author is convinced that the Platonic theory of reminiscence is not a mere speculation, and the meaning of the spirit of science is the expression of a natural phenomenon which in the sense of the MESER concept is called revelation.
(16925 views)