Physics for Poets
Author: Robert March
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Published: 2002
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ISBN-13: 9781283387446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert March
Publisher:
Published: 2002
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ISBN-13: 9781283387446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leon M. Lederman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2024-08-06
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1493086979
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a whole. But for many, the theory remains an impenetrable enigma. Now, two physicists seek to remedy this situation by both drawing on their scientific expertise and their talent for communicating science to the general reader. In this lucid, informative book, designed for the curious, Lederman and Hill make the seemingly daunting subject of quantum physics accessible, appealing, and exciting. Their story is partly historical, covering the many "Eureka" moments when great scientists-Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and others-struggled to come to grips with the bizarre realities that quantum research revealed. Although their findings were indisputably proven in experiments, they were so strange and counterintuitive that Einstein refused to accept quantum theory, despite its great success. The authors explain the many strange and even eerie aspects of quantum reality at the subatomic level, from "particles" that can be many places simultaneously and sometimes act more like waves, to the effect that a human can have on their movements by just observing them! Finally, the authors delve into quantum physics' latest and perhaps most breathtaking offshoots-field theory and string theory. The intricacies and ramifications of these two theories will give the reader much to ponder. In addition, the authors describe the diverse applications of quantum theory in its almost countless forms of modern technology throughout the world. Using eloquent analogies and illustrative examples, Quantum Physics for Poets renders even the most profound reaches of quantum theory understandable and something for us all to savor.
Author: Robert K. Logan
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9814295949
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a textbook for a survey course in physics taught without mathematics, that also takes into account the social impact and influences from the arts and society. It combines physics, literature, history and philosophy from the dawn of human life to the 21st century. It will also be of interest to the general reader.
Author: Peter Middleton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-11-04
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 022629000X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-301) and index.
Author: Harry Moritz Schey
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780393925166
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new fourth edition of the acclaimed and bestselling Div, Grad, Curl, and All That has been carefully revised and now includes updated notations and seven new example exercises.
Author: David Clewell
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780299144142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →His compassionate witness is born out of immersion in doggedly bittersweet particulars: the cock-eyed wisdom of 1950s science fiction movies; Do Not Disturb signs; vegetarian physics; the perils of bed-and-breakfast lodging; flying saucer disciples; what to do in case of Rapture; Debbie Fuller, reluctant childhood angel; the theory and practice of Spontaneous Human Combustion. His passionate transformation of that raw data into song - no matter how fragile or raucous - provides irrefutable testimony about the consequences of being nothing less than human, where "every day someone crawls out of his ocean of sleep / and takes those first tottering steps on the planet again / he's playing with real fire." And with Clewell's insistence on the unlikely grace in that condition, along with the generosity of his unabashed inclusiveness, his poetry is a powerful antidote to the bad medicine we're too often asked to swallow.
Author: A. Van Jordan
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This provocative, ambitious collection explores the intersection of the infinite world of physics with the perplexities of the human condition.
Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2003-03-25
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0812968875
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure. A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, Poetry 180 represents the richness and diversity of the form, and is designed to beckon readers with a selection of poems that are impossible not to love at first glance. Open the anthology to any page and discover a new poem to cherish, or savor all the poems, one at a time, to feel the full measure of contemporary poetry’s vibrance and abundance. With poems by Catherine Bowman, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Frances Mayes, Paul Muldoon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, David Wojahn, Paul Zimmer, and many more.