Summary: This unique program goes on a fast-paced road trip to answer the "Why Physics" question. Journeying across the American Southeast, a host investigates the role of physics in our daily lives, as viewers gain an appreciation for the fundamental concepts and principles revealed by the people and places along the way. Everything from roller coasters to roadside attractions is used to explore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Stockley, Corinne.
Summary: Contains definitions and explanations of physics terms and concepts, grouped in the categories of mechanics and general physics, heat, waves, electricity and magnetism, atomic and nuclear physics, and general physics information, and includes diagrams and illustrations, cross-references, an index, and Internet links.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Pub. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J530 STOSummary: Explore the laws and theories of physics in this accessible introduction to the forces that shape our Universe, our planet, and our everyday lives. Using a bold, graphic-led approach The Physics Book sets out more than 80 key concepts and discoveries that have defined the subject and influenced our technology since the beginning of time. With the focus firmly on unpicking the thought behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: What is light? How does it function? Why is it so important to the foundations of the physical world? This program examines the nature of light and applications of its properties. The basic principles of light waves-propagation, reflection, and refraction-are explained, and information about lenses, the electromagnetic spectrum, and total internal reflection is illustrated using the human eye,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Polkinghorne, J. C.
Contents: The search for truth -- Comparative heuristics -- Lessons from history -- Conceptual exploration -- Cousins.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel PolkinghornePollock, Steven.
Summary: "Physics is the study of the natural world, an experimental science that lies at the heart of all other sciences. It is an effort to make sense of the world at a fundamental level, to unify and describe observable physical phenomena. 'Classical' refers to the pre-20th century developments in physics, a reductionistic, 'realist' approach that continues to be one of the most productive and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 GRERideout, Kenneth
Summary: Written by Kenneth Rideout, the author of Barron's AP Physics 1 and AP Physics 2, this edition features a brand new design and new content structure with illustrations and practice questions. It includes more organizational charts and similar content topics are grouped together for easier review. Physics: The Easy Way covers motion, forces, energy, heat, electricity, magnetism, the properties...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaplan, Inc., d/b/a Barron's Educational Series 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Wiggins, Arthur W.
Contents: Introduction : the scientific method -- A word about calculators -- Apparatus needed for all experiments -- Experiment 1 : Identified flying objects -- Experiment 2 : Updated cannonballs -- ch. 1. How things move : position, velocity, and acceleration -- Experiment 3 : Weight 'til the sun shines, Nellie -- ch. 2. Why things move : forces and their effects -- Experiment 4 : Dropsy -- ch. 3....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 WIGMuller, R. (Richard)
Summary: "A monumental work on the flow of time, from the universe's creation to "Now," by the best-selling author of Physics for Future Presidents. "Now" is a simple concept--you're reading this sentence now. Yet a real definition of "now" has eluded even the great Einstein. We know that time stretches and is affected by gravity and velocity. Yet, as eminent physicist Richard A. Muller points out, it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 MULSummary: Presenting nearly 100 pieces from the Charles Saatchi collection in London, this program transcends the standard video catalog format by incorporating interviews with several artists, all of whom candidly share their goals and processes. From Gary Hume's contemplative abstractions to Damien Hirst's shark in formaldehyde, a wide variety of artistic and social concerns come to light. Jake and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In 1905, Albert Einstein released a series of groundbreaking papers on relativity, quantum theory, and Brownian motion. This program hosted by David Suzuki identifies technologies that have evolved from or were influenced by Einstein's revolutionary ideas-TVs, nuclear power plants, digital cameras, medical imaging devices, CD players, GPS devices, and more-while showing just how profoundly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Relativity and quantum physics touch the very basis of physical reality, altering commonsense notions of space and time, cause and effect. Both have reputations for complexity, but the basic ideas behind relativity and quantum physics are, in fact, simple and comprehensible by anyone. The essence of relativity in a single sentence: The laws of physics are the same for all observers in uniform...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 EINSummary: Want to know where to sit on a roller coaster to get the biggest thrill? In this program, engineers use the principles of physics to design amusement park rides. Viewers will be catapulted along on a roller coaster, slammed into their seats, glued against a wall, shot down a luge course, and swung around on a hellacious ride they call "the corkscrew. As they go, they learn the relationship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Pollock, Steven.
Summary: Discover how something as minute as a subatomic particle can be marvelously complex and interesting, yet rendered comprehensible, in this enjoyable presentation by the University of Colorado's award-winning author, researcher, and teacher Steven Pollock.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 539.72 POLPollock, Steven.
Summary: Would you like to know how the universe works? The science that has found many of the answers to that profound and age-old question is particle physics, the study of those impossibly tiny particles with unbelievably strange names : bosons and leptons, quarks and neutrinos. Steven Pollock translates the language of the remarkable science that, in only 100 years, has unlocked the secrets of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 539.72 PAR Part 1Call number: 539.72 PAR Part 2
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Summary: Never short of eager programmers and willing testers, the computer game industry has long been both a hothouse and a proving ground for cutting-edge computer applications. Focusing on efforts to integrate artificial intelligence and the laws of physics into character response and movement, this program takes an inside look at how Britain's sophisticated computer game industry is pushing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Sheehy, Suzie
Summary: "An accelerator physicist's fascinating journey through the experiments that uncovered the nature of matter and made the modern world. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, many scientists believed that the project of physics was nearly complete, that there was little left to explore. But as the new century dawned, scientists with the drive to deepen their understanding began looking ever...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 539.7 SHEWolfson, Richard.
Summary: 12 lectures delivered by Richard Wolfson, Professor, Middlebury College.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 PHYWolfson, Richard.
Summary: 12 lectures delivered by Richard Wolfson, Professor, Middlebury College.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 PHYFirth, Rachel
Summary: "Rather than explaining details about how to do physics, this book focuses on explaining what different branches of physics are about, how we know about them, and what mysteries remain for budding physicists to uncover. It doesn't shy away from the hard stuff, tackling Black Holes, quantum mechanics, and even Einstein's theory of relativity"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT STEM FirthYoung Jesus
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YOUHalpern, Paul
Summary: Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger were friends and comrades-in-arms against what they considered the most preposterous aspects of quantum physics: its indeterminacy. Einstein famously quipped that God does not play dice with the universe, and Schrödinger is equally well known for his thought experiment about the cat in the box who ends up “spread out” in a probabilistic state, neither...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Smolin, Lee
Summary: A theoretical physicist describes the evolution of modern-day string theory, the flaws in the attempt to formulate a "theory of everything" to explain all the forces and particles of nature and the origins of the universe, and their repercussions for physics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006