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Physics Books
Richard Feynman is famous as one of the leading,
Nobel Prize-winning, physicists of the twentieth century. In his two
autobiographical books you will meet Feynman as a brilliant physicist and as
a funny man.
'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!': Adventures of a Curious Character
'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious
Character
Each book contains short humorous anecdotes from Feynman's unusual life: growing up, working at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb, traveling around the world and teaching at Cal Tech. Even if you know nothing about physics, you will enjoy Feynman the safe cracker, the bongo player and the genius who never stopped learning. Physics students will enjoy these books twice as much.
Feynman's last mission was checking what caused the Challenger disaster. The second half of the second book is his report on this investigation.
Feynman's books are really funny, and they deliver the
flavor of his unusual life, but they are not a biography of Feynman. A
wonderful biography of a wonderful man is
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Written by James Gleick,
the famous science writer, this is a highly readable book, that gives a
rich portrait of Feynman, the life-loving man and the genius physicist.
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Martin Gardner, "the man who brought more mathematics to more millions than anyone else",
get his fame by the monthly column he wrote for twenty-five years in the
Scientific American magazine. The same talent to explain complex matter in
an easy way is used in his popular physics books: The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry, from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings, deals with symmetry in physics, mathematics and nature.
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One of the most interesting topics of twentieth century
physics is that of the basic structure of matter. Yuval Ne'eman, a
world-famous elementary particles physicist, brings us the story of
The Particle Hunters. The book gives you a unique opportunity to read
this fascinating story through the perspective of a physicist who played an
active role in the chase after the next particle. Basic forces, quarks,
particle accelerators, here you will find all the explanations, principles
and concepts you need.
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Albert Einstein tells about the
Evolution of Physics. The basic concept of physics and the fundamental
problems of physics are explained by the greatest physicist of all times.
The book is without equations (yes, not even E=mc2), since
it is a book that deals with ideas, from early concepts to relativity and
quantum theory.
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Can a single photon appear in two places at once? Yes,
but only if nobody is looking. Quantum physics is the most puzzling, most
unbelievable theory of modern physics. In
Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum
Mysteries , astrophysicist John Gribbin gives us a highly readable
description of quantum's counterintuitive universe. In the book you will find
classical theories of quantum mechanics along with the latest new theories.
Bohr's fervor, Schrodinger's paradoxical experiment and Feynman's brilliance
are mixed into a really enjoyable book.
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"If I have been able to see farther than others," said
Newton, "it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants." According to
this principle, the first half of
Einstein for Beginners describes the foundations upon which Albert
Einstein's revolutionary theories were developed. On one side Einstein's
family, childhood and youth. On the other side the physical developments
since Newton and the physicists who created these ideas. The second half of the book gives a clear description of Einstein's relativity theory. It begins with the principles that light is propagated with a definite velocity which is independent of the state of motion of the emitting or receiving body and that nothing can go faster than the speed of light. It proceeds with the implication of these principles on the laws of mechanics. The book is based on Einstein's 1905 paper, making his brilliant but somehow complicated ideas accessible to everyone. The technique of the book is very unusual: it is a documentary comic book. The text is very informative and at same time very readable, and the humorous illustrations makes reading this book a real fun.
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Paul G. Hewitt's book Conceptual Physics is the most beautiful physics textbook I have ever seen. It is exceptionally well written, with a lot of colorful drawings and pictures, explaining all aspects of high school physics, from mechanics to relativity.
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