Susskind, Leonard
Summary: "Physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's classical field theory. Using their typical brand of real math, enlightening drawings, and humor, Susskind and Friedman walk us through the complexities of waves, forces, and particles by exploring special relativity and electromagnetism. It's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 SUSSummary: 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 EINKaku, Michio.
Summary: Introduces the most cutting-edge field in physics, superstring theory, and explains how scientists have been able to join the theroy of relativity and quantum mechanics to approach a theory of the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.1 KAKHalpern, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 HALSantaolalla, Javier
Summary: "Si cuando sales de noche a un sitio despejado levantas la cabeza y solo ves puntos de luz, te estás perdiendo la mejor parte de estar vivo. Yo, Javier Santaolalla, veo partículas que surgen de una gran "explosión" hace miles de millones de años, que chocan y se transforman mientras se van agrupando por gravedad. Veo cómo se van creando cúmulos de materia en forma de nubes de gas, que dan lugar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oceano 2023