Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianpolis, Indiana, USA, 2014. — 515 p. — eISBN: 1118595769
Two complete ebooks for one low price! Created and compiled by the publisher, this physics bundle brings together two of the bestselling For Dummies physics titles in one, e-only bundle. With this special bundle, you'll get the complete text of the following titles:
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Riverhead Books, 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 073521610X, ISBN13: 978-0735216105. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most...
Монография. — Пер. с англ. — Общ. ред. В. О. Малышенко. — М.: Едиториал УРСС, 2003. — 384 с.: ил. Монография известного физика и математика Роджера Пенроуза посвящена изучению проблемы искусственного интеллекта на основе всестороннего анализа достижений современных наук. Возможно ли моделирование разума? Чтобы найти ответ на этот вопрос, Пенроуз обсуждает широчайший круг...
Quercus Publishing Inc., New York, 2007. — 173 p. — ISBN: 1847240070 In this, the second volume in an important new series presenting core concepts across a range of critical areas of human knowledge, author Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of 20th-century scientific theory for a general readership. She explains ideas at the cutting-edge of scientific enquiry, making them...
Penguin Random House, LLC. —2016. — 1171 P. eISBN 9780698409767. Prologue. COSMOS. The Fundamental Nature of Reality. Poetic Naturalism. The World Moves by Itself. What Determines What Will Happen? Reasons Why Our Universe. Time s Arrow. Memories and Causes. Understanding. Essence. Complexity. Thinking. Caring. Appendix: The Equation Underlaing You and Me.
Allen Lane, 2011. — 635 p. — (Allen Lane Science). — ISBN: 978-0-141-96969-5, 978-0-713-99274-8. The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe — and that improving them is the basic...
Viking, Penguin Random House, 2022. — 324 p. — ISBN 9781984879462. From renowned physicist and creator of the YouTube series “Science without the Gobbledygook,” a book that takes a no-nonsense approach to life’s biggest questions, and wrestles with what physics really says about the human condition Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is...
Переводчики Э.Л. Наппельбаум, В.П. Голышев. — Москва: АСТ, 2014. — 256 с. — (Великие ученые и их открытия). — ISBN: 978-5-17-087507-8. В основу этой книги, больше 50 лет состоящей в списке международных бестселлеров, легли знаменитые лекции Ричарда Фейнмана, прочитанные им в 1964 году в Корнпеллском университете. В этих лекциях прославленный физик рассказывает о фундаментальных...
W. W. Norton, 2014. - 317 pp.
A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film, Interstellar , from executive producer and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne.
Interstellar , from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar , Kip Thorne, the...
Icon Books Ltd, 2012. — 176 p. — ISBN: 1848311206. What is time? The 5th-century philosopher St. Augustine famously said that he knew what time was, so long as no one asked him. Is time a fourth dimension similar to space or does it flow in some sense? And if it flows, does it make sense to say how fast? Does the future exist? Is time travel possible? Why does time seem to pass...
Knopf, 2020. — 448 pp. From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes a captivating exploration of deep time and humanity’s search for purpose. Until the End of Time is Brian Greene’s breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to find meaning in the face of this vast expanse. Greene takes us on a journey from the big bang...
WilliamCollinsBooks.com, London, 2016. – 421 p. – ISBN: 0007488823 A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the new BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions. ‘What is motion?’ ‘Why is every snowflake different?’ ‘Why is life symmetrical?’ To answer these and many other questions, Professor...
Faber & Faber Ltd., 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-0-465-05665-1. A ground breaking exploration of how the interplay of physics and mathematics has enriched our understanding of the universe - essential reading for anyone who wants to grasp how physicists are attempting, in Stephen Hawking's words, to 'know the mind of God'. One of the great mysteries of science is that underlying...
Bantam Press, 2016. — 212 p. — ISBN: 0593075439, 0593075420. A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial. Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos is as close as the nearest...
Vintage Books, 2007. — 1123 p. — ISBN 9780679776314. From one of our greatest living scientists, a magnificent book that provides, for the serious lay reader, the most comprehensive and sophisticated account we have yet had of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. Since the earliest efforts of the ancient Greeks to find order amid the...
McGraw-Hill Education, 2009. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0071621318. 125 Wickedly Fun Ways to Test the Laws of Physics! Now you can prove your knowledge of physics without expending a lot of energy. 125 Physics Projects for the Evil Genius is filled with hands-on explorations into key areas of this fascinating field. Best of all, these experiments can be performed without a formal lab, a...
Penguin Books, 2015. — 448 p. Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this “beautiful question.” With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek’s groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 176 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978–0–19–880654–7. What is matter? Matter is the stuff from which we and all the things in the world are made. Everything around us - from desks, to books, to our own bodies - are made of atoms, which are small enough that a million of them can fit across the breadth of a human hair. Inside every atom...
Ivy Press, 2014. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-1-848317-44-4 30-Second Quantum Theory tackles a mindbendingly mysterious area of physics, introducing the 50 most significant quantum quandaries and ideas. In a world where the quantum physics of electronics is an everyday essential and new quantum developments make headline news, you will visit Parallel Worlds, ride Wave Theory, and learn...
London: William Collins, 2019. — 288 p. — ISBN: 9780007488841. A companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series. The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System as it has never been seen before. Mercury, a lifeless victim of the Sun’s expanding power. Venus, once thought to be lush and...
Yale University Press, Templeton Press, UK, 2016. — 122 p. — ISBN: 0300209983 The rising star author of The Physics of Wall Street explores why "nothing" may hold the key to the next era of theoretical physics. James Owen Weatherall's previous book, The Physics of Wall Street, was a New York Times bestseller and named one of Physics Today's five most intriguing books of 2013....
Penguin Books Ltd., 1997. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-55063-2. For David Deutsch, a young physicist of unusual originality, quantum theory contains our most fundamental knowledge of the physical world. Taken literally, it implies that there are many universes “parallel” to the one we see around us. This multiplicity of universes, according to Deutsch, turns out to be the key to...
HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2015. — 432 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-232847-2. In this brilliant exploration of our cosmic environment, the renowned particle physicist and New York Times bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the furthest reaches of space and life here on...
М.: Либроком, 2012. — 248 с. — (Науку - всем! Шедевры научно-популярной литературы). — ISBN: 978-5-397-02592-8. Все мы знакомы с открытиями, ставшими заметными вехами на пути понимания человеком законов окружающего мира: начиная с догадки Архимеда о величине силы, действующей на погруженное в жидкость тело, и заканчивая новейшими теориями скрытых размерностей...
Martin’s Press, New York, USA, 2016. – 196 p. – 1250078822 "The Physics of Life" explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other people and surroundings. Bejan explores controversial and relevant issues such as...
Mariner Books, 2008. — 366 p. The Goldilocks Enigma is Paul Davies’s eagerly awaited return to cosmology, the successor to his critically acclaimed bestseller The Mind of God. Here he tackles all the "big questions," including the biggest of them all: Why does the universe seem so well adapted for life? In his characteristically clear and elegant style, Davies shows how recent...
The MIT Press, 2017. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 0262035901; ISBN13: 978-0262035903. Drawings and short essays offer engaging and accessible explanations of key ideas in physics, from triangulation to relativity and beyond. Humans have been trying to understand the physical universe since antiquity. Aristotle had one vision (the realm of the celestial spheres is perfect), and Einstein...
First Free Press, 2011. — 320 p. — ISBN: 1439108277. Universally praised for the remarkably fun, inventive, and often wacky ways in which Walter Lewin brings the joys of physics to life—from super-charging a tricycle with a fire extinguisher to risking his life by putting his head in the path of a swinging wrecking ball—For the Love of Physics takes readers on a marvelous...
М.: АСТ, 2016. — 230 с., илл.
Знаете ли вы, что такое время? А как придумали теорию струн? Какой химический элемент – самый большой в мире? А вот Дмитрий Побединский, физик, популярный видеоблогер и постоянный автор «Чердака», знает – и может рассказать! Можно ли создать настоящий световой меч? Что почувствует искусственный интеллект при первом поцелуе? Как устроена чёрная...
Amazon., 2017. — 290 p. — ISBN13: 978-1544721804. The 100 Greatest Lies in physics is a follow-up to Ray Fleming's The Zero-Point Universe as he continues to explore the importance of zero-point energy to modern physics. Since before the start of this century, evidence has mounted that space is not empty. Space is filled with quantum vacuum fluctuations called zero-point...
Random House, Inc., 2008. — 329 p. — ISBN: 978-0-385-52544-2. In this latest effort to popularize the sciences, City University of New York professor and media star Kaku ponders topics that many people regard as impossible, ranging from psychokinesis and telepathy to time travel and teleportation. His Class I impossibilities include force fields, telepathy and antiuniverses,...
Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2016. — 239 p. — ISBN: 0691166935 Physics can explain many of the things that we commonly encounter. It can tell us why the night is dark, what causes the tides, and even how best to catch a baseball. With In Praise of Simple Physics, popular math and science writer Paul Nahin presents a plethora of situations that explore the science and...
Springer, 2013. — 168 p. — ISBN: 1137278234
The recently celebrated discovery of the Higgs boson has captivated the public's imagination with the promise that it can explain the origins of everything in the universe. It's no wonder that the media refers to it grandly as the "God particle." Yet behind closed doors, physicists are admitting that there is much more to this story,...
Пер. с англ. Е. Казей, К. Захарцева. — Санкт-Петербург: Питер, 2023. — 89 с. — (New Science). — ISBN 978-5-4461-1754-3. Фантастические масштабы и диапазон тем, которыми занимается современная физика, поражают воображение. Мы знаем, из чего состоит всё (или почти всё), что нас окружает, видим невидимое, исследуем связи всех кубиков мироздания, можем проследить эволюцию Вселенной...
Basic Books, 2015. — 288 p. When the fuzzy indeterminacy of quantum mechanics overthrew the orderly world of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger were at the forefront of the revolution. Neither man was ever satisfied with the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, however, and both rebelled against what they considered the most preposterous aspect of quantum...
Random House, Inc., 2011. — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-0-14-193139-5. In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku — the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible — gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world's top scientists who are already inventing the future in their labs. The...
СПб.: Питер, 2018. — 336 с. Перед вами — уникальная книга, исследующая подоплеку новейших физических идей о массе, энергии и природе вакуума. Автор, лауреат Нобелевской премии по физике, излагает современные взгляды на нашу невероятную Вселенную и прогнозирует новый золотой век фундаментальной физической науки. Великолепный рассказ о единстве материи и энергии, об элементарных...
Перевод С. Тиходеева. — М.: АСТ, 2018. — 132 с. — ISBN: 978-5-17-982850-1. В основу этой книги легли знаменитые лекции Ричарда Фейнмана, прочитанные им в Калифорнийском университете. Уникальность их заключается в том, что читались они для преподавателей и студентов гуманитарных факультетов — то есть людей, совершенно не подготовленных к восприятию такого на первый взгляд...
Ivy Press, 2016. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78240-433-0 Spend 30 seconds a day in the company of a colossus from the world of science, and you will soon have his whole story — both his scientific attainments and his extraordinary life — in your head. Einstein was not only an unparalleled scientific genius, but also a human rights campaigner, a political activist, and the iconic...
Simon & Schuster, 1992. — 293 p. If we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate...
Bantam, 2023. — 352 p. Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar’s final thoughts on the cosmos—a dramatic revision of the theory he put forward in A Brief History of Time . Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. In...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 336 pp. Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinating and illuminating look at what physics reveals about the world. Shining a light on the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, Jim Al-Khalili invites us all to understand what this crucially important science tells us about...
Basic Books, 2020. — 400 p. In a universe filled by chaos and disorder, one physicist makes the radical argument that the growth of order drives the passage of time — and shapes the destiny of the universe. Time is among the universe's greatest mysteries. Why, when most laws of physics allow for it to flow forward and backward, does it only go forward? Physicists have long...
The Experiment, 2018. — 304 p. Welcome to Atom Land, the impossibly small world of quantum physics. With award–winning physics Jon Butterworth as your guide, you’ll set sail from Port Electron in search of strange new terrain. Each discovery will expand the horizons of your trusty map—from the Hadron Island to the Isle of Quarks and beyond. Just beware of Dark Energy and other sea...
Penguin, 2022. — 304 p. –—ISBN 13 9780593186589. Величайшие идеи во Вселенной: пространство, время и движение "A porthole into another world." —Scientific American The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making...
Riverhead Books, 2017. — 519 p. — ISBN: 978-0735211537. Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore — there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to explore everything we don't know about the universe:...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 352 p. How do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve other seemingly impossible puzzles. The question of how falling cats land on their feet has long intrigued humans. In this playful and eye-opening history, physicist and cat parent Gregory Gbur explores how attempts to...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. — 423 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-59525-6. From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to date — a book that takes on the grandest question: Is ours the only universe? There was a time when universe meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years discoveries in physics and...
СПб.: Питер. 2016. — 512 с. — ISBN: 978-5-496-01017-7. — (New Science). Что такое время в современном понимании и почему оно обладает именно такими свойствами? Почему время всегда двигается в одном направлении? Почему существуют необратимые процессы? Двадцать лет назад Стивен Хокинг пытался объяснить время через теорию Большого Взрыва. Теперь Шон Кэрролл, один из ведущих...
Oxford University Press, 2009. – 274 p. – ISBN: 978-0-19-923-796-8. Patterns are everywhere in nature - in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? It creates itself. The patterns we see come from self-organization. Whether living or non-living, scientists have found that...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. — 528 p. Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was based not on utopian wishful thinking but...
London: Icon Books, Ltd., 2013. — 284 p. — ISBN: 978-184831-564-8. Longlisted For The 2014 Winton Royal Society Prize For Science Books. As troubling as we pattern-seeking humans may find it, modern science has repeatedly shown us that randomness is the underlying heartbeat of nature. In Dice World, acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes readers on an incredible trip around...
Birkhäuser, 2018. — 286 p. — ISBN: 3319643606. Why do polished stones look wet? How does the Twin Paradox work? What if Jupiter were a star? How can we be sure that pi never repeats? How does a quantum computer break encryption? Discover the answers to these, and other profound physics questions! This fascinating book presents a collection of articles based on conversations and...
Three Rivers Press, 2018. — 212 p. — ASIN B073R3JM1X, ISBN: 1524761966. Providing unique, accessible lessons on engineering, this title in the bestselling 101 Things I Learnedseries is a perfect resource for students, recent graduates, general readers, and even seasoned professionals. An experienced civil engineer presents the physics and fundamentals underlying the many fields...
Penguin Random House LLC., 2020. — 240 p. — ISBN: 9780385543859. A vivid and captivating narrative about how modern science broke free of ancient philosophy, and how theoretical physics is returning to its unscientific roots. In the early 17th century Galileo broke free from the hold of ancient Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. He drastically changed the framework through...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. — 240 p. — Translated from the Italian by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell. A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life — drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven...
Перевод с итальянского Дмитрий Баюк. — М.: ACT CORPUS, 2020. — 224 с. — (Библиотека фонда "Траектория"). — ISBN: 978-5-17-114985-7. Карло Ровелли — итальянский физик-теоретик, специалист в области квантовой гравитации, автор нескольких научно-популярных книг. В «Сроке времени» он предлагает неожиданный взгляд на такой, казалось бы, привычный нам всем феномен, как время. Время,...
Viking, 2021. — 272 p. From a young British scientist, a groundbreaking exploration of a radically different approach to physics There is a vast class of things that science has so far almost entirely neglected. They are central to the understanding of physical reality both at an everyday level and at the level of the most fundamental phenomena in physics, yet have...
Riverhead Books, 2022. — 240 p. A delightful intellectual feast from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time . One of the world’s most prominent physicists and a fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. His bestselling books have introduced millions of readers to the wonders of modern physics and his singular...
Faber and Faber Ltd, 2022. — 482 p. — ISBN 978-0-571-35423-8. A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. If we could not measure, then we could not observe the world around us; we could not...
Перевод с английского Н. Я. Смородинской. — Под ред. Г. Хора, Дж. Шепанского. — Москва: Энергоатомиздат, 1983. — 88 с. Содержит пять лекций крупнейшего теоретика нашего времени, основателя релятивистской квантовой механики. Они посвящены фундаментальным проблемам современной ядерной физики, физики, элементарных частиц и теории относительности, непосредственно связанным с...
New York: Pantheon Books, 2003. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0375422218; ISBN13: 978-0375422218 In this lively volume, Cambridge physicist Barrow (The Book of Nothing) considers the natural constants-the handful of seemingly eternal numerical values, such as the speed of light, the weight of the proton, Planck's constant or the four dimensions of space and time-that constitute the...
Quercus, 2010. — 208 p. — (The big questions). — ISBN: 978-1849162388. "The Big Questions: Universe" enables renowned experts to tackle the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. Each 3000-word essay simply and concisely examines a question that has eternally perplexed enquiring minds, providing answers from history's...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 336 p. — ISBN 978-1982170608, 1982170603. An award-winning Oxford physicist draws on classic sci-fi, fantasy fiction, and everyday phenomena to explain and celebrate the magical properties of the world around us. If you were to present the feats of modern science to someone from the past, those feats would surely be considered magic. Theoretical...
California, NY, USA: Ten Speed Press, 2020. — ISBN: 9781984858702. From the big bang to black holes, this fast-paced illustrated tour of time and space for the astro-curious unlocks the science of the stars to reveal fascinating theories, surprising discoveries, and ongoing mysteries in modern astronomy and astrophysics. Before the big bang, time, space, and matter didn't...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. — 356 p. — ISBN: 978-0-547-51172-6. Weight: The Expulsion of Time Falling The Disappearance of Time A game of Catch Doing Physics in a Box The Expulsion of Novelty and Surprise Relativity and Timelessness Quantum Cosmology and the End of Time Light: Time Reborn The Cosmological Fallacy The Cosmological Challenge Principles for a New Cosmology...
М.: Альпина нон-фикшн. 2015.
Книга одного из самых известных ученых современности, нобелевского лауреата по физике, доктора философии Стивена Вайнберга – захватывающая и энциклопедически полная история науки. Это фундаментальный труд о том, как рождались и развивались современные научные знания, двигаясь от простого коллекционирования фактов к точным методам познания...
Oxford University Press, 2009. – 274 p. – ISBN: 9780199237968 Patterns are everywhere in nature - in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? It creates itself. The patterns we see come from self-organization. Whether living or non-living, scientists have found that there...
National Geographic, 2023. —– 320 p. — ISBN-13 978-1426223303. В бесконечность и дальше: путешествие космических открытий This enlightening illustrated narrative by the world’s most celebrated astrophysicist explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space with authority and humor. No one can make the mysteries of the universe more comprehensible and...
Canada: Wiley, 2015. — 432 p. — ISBN: 1119093821. Take the fear out of Physics I If the thought of studying physics makes you sweat, you can finally have something to rest easy about! U Can: Physics I For Dummies takes the intimidation out of this tough subject, offering approachable lessons, examples, and practice opportunities-as well as access to additional practice problems...
3rd Edition. — John Wiley & Sons, Inc., for Dummies, 2022. — 416 p. — ISBN-13 9781119872221 An easy-to-follow guide to introductory physics, from the Big Bang to relativity All science, technology, engineering, and math majors in college and university require some familiarity with physics. Other career paths, like medicine, are also only open to students who understand this...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 208 р. — ISBN: 978-0691148540. Ever wonder why cats land on their feet? Or what holds a spinning top upright? Or whether it is possible to feel the Earth's rotation in an airplane? Why Cats Land on Their Feet is a compendium of paradoxes and puzzles that readers can solve using their own physical intuition. And the surprising answers to...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-26471-8. Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer? According to Seth Lloyd — Professor of Quantum-Mechanical Engineering at MIT and originator of the first technologically feasible design for a working quantum computer — the answer is yes. This wonderfully accessible book illuminates the professional...
Union Square & Co., 2025. — 540 p. This richly illustrated chronology of physics contains more than 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon, the book's timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. — 732 р. — ISBN 9780525658764 A surprising, fascinating journey through the experiments that not only unlocked the nature of matter and shaped our understanding of the cosmos but also forever changed the way we live within it “A book about the fundamental problems of physics written from a viewpoint I hadn’t come across before: that of the experimenter. A...
Walker & Company, New York, USA, 2011. – 152 p. – ISBN: 0802715133; 0802778720 For the past fifteen years, acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting the works of "outsider physicists," many without formal training and all convinced that they have found true alternative theories of the universe. Jim Carter, the Einstein of outsiders, has developed his own...
Харків: Книжковий Клуб сімейного дозвілля, 2019 с. — 352 с. Є багато різних наук, і кожна з них пройшла тривалий етап становлення. Та чи замислювалися ви колись над тим, як розвивалася та трансформувалася… сама наука? Якою була її історія? Який сенс вкладали в поняття «наука» у період Античності, Середньовіччя, під час наукової революції XVI-XVII століть? Що змінилося, а що...
М.: АСТ, 2017. — 272 с. — (Простая наука для детей). — ISBN 978-5-17-100193-3. «Физика без формул» замечательного автора и популяризатора науки Александра Анатольевича Леоновича легко и увлекательно расскажет школьникам об атомах и молекулах, квантах и кварках, о магнитных полях, звуковых волнах и электричестве. Предупреждаем: будет интересно! Для среднего школьного возраста.
М.: АСТ, 2017. — 41 с. — (Библиотека фонда «Траектория»). — ISBN: 978-5-17-106692-5. Карло Ровелли – физик-теоретик, внесший значительный вклад в физику пространства и времени, автор нескольких научно-популярных книг. Он работал в Италии и США, а сейчас возглавляет исследовательскую группу по квантовой гравитации в Марселе. «Семь этюдов по физике» мгновенно стали бестселлером в...
Monograph. — New York: The Experiment, 2023. — 256 p. This book follows the continuum of historical change of all the “stuff” in the cosmos, from the Big Bang to the evolution of life to human history, as simple clumps of hydrogen gas are transformed into complex human societies. History allows us to live many lives instead of just one, and this particular story instills in us...
Springer, 2021. — 293 pp. With the aid of entertaining short stories, anecdotes, lucid explanations and straight-forward figures, this book challenges the perception that the world of physics is inaccessible to the non-expert. Beginning with Neanderthal man, it traces the evolution of human reason and understanding from paradoxes and optical illusions to gravitational waves,...
Scribner, 2023. — 282 p. — ISBN 978-1-9821-9653-0. Наука о вращении: как силы вращения влияют на все, от вашего тела до реактивных двигателей и погоды A clear and captivating work of popular science that explains rotational force—a basic driver of the universe affecting everything from the cosmos to our own bodies—from the masterful author of The Age of Wood. From the time...
Enslow Pub, 2009. — 128 р. — (Ace Your Physics Science Project). — ISBN: 978-0766032248. Presents several science projects and science fair ideas using math and measuring, including projects that deal with units of measure, areas and volumes, heat, and indirect measurements. Math and physics often go hand-in-hand. Math and measurements have even played a big role in scientific...
Leiceatershire, British: Troubador Publishing, 2018. — 82 p. — ISBN: 9781788034951. Have you ever looked up at the stars and wondered what you were really seeing? Do you often stop to ponder why we are all here; what we are all made of; where we might be headed? Moreover, have you ever tried to find the answers to these questions, but been overwhelmed by both the complexity and...
Union Square & Co., 2025. — 540 p. This richly illustrated chronology of physics contains more than 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon, the book's timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and...
ETP Semra Pty Ltd, 2022. — 96 p. Forget what you have read or heard about the complexities of the universe. From its smallest sub-atomic particles to its large scale structure, it is an amazingly simple entity to understand. Everything is interrelated by a common thread. The Amazingly Simple Universe is a description of the universe from its smallest sub-atomic particles to its...
Dorling Kindersley, 2024. — 194 p. — ISBN 0241594928. Get to grips with the essential topics in physics today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100 words. Physics: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your scientific curiosity and helping you to understand the biggest concepts in physics in concise, 100-word...
New York: Dover Publications Inc., 2011. — 336 p. Physics is very much an experimental science, but too often, students at the undergraduate level are not exposed to the reality of experimental physics ― i.e., what was done in a given experiment, why it was done, the background of physics against which the experiment was carried out and the changes in theory and knowledge that...
New York: Scientific American Edit., 2016. — 180 p. — (Scientific American ebooks). — ISBN 9781466859043. Высшая физика: от кварков до космоса The fundamental outlines of the physical world, from its tiniest particles to massive galaxy clusters, have been apparent for decades. Does this mean physicists are about to tie it all up into a neat package? Not at all. Just when you...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 A theoretical search for parallel universes This book is not for the faint hearted; it requires basic knowledge of physics and cosmology. Among his peers, Alex Vilenkin is regarded as one of the most imaginative and creative cosmologists of our time. His contributions to our current understanding of the universe include a number of novel ideas,...
М. : ACT; Астрель; Corpus, 2010. — 303 с.: ил. Все мы живем в остатках огромного взрыва, случившегося около 14 миллиардов лет тому назад и положившего начало нашей Вселенной. Однако что предшествовало этому грандиозному событию? И какова вероятность того, что помимо нашего мира где-то существуют другие? В своей популярно написанной книге физик, профессор университета Тафте...
М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2016. — 530 с. Инстинкт говорит нам, что наш мир трехмерный. Исходя из этого представления, веками строились и научные гипотезы. По мнению выдающегося физика Митио Каку, это такой же предрассудок, каким было убеждение древних египтян в том, что Земля плоская. Книга посвящена теории гиперпространства. Идея многомерности пространства вызывала скепсис,...
Sourcebooks, 2021. — 274 p. — ISBN 978-1728238811. Do you ever look up to the stars and wonder about what is out there? Over the last few centuries, humans have successfully unraveled much of the language of the universe, exploring and defining formerly mysterious phenomena such as electricity, magnetism, and matter through the beauty of mathematics. But some secrets remain...
Cambridge: Cosmology Science Publishers, 2014. — 266 p. — ISBN: 978-1938024221. This book will help you to understand the idea of Time Travel. It is a very easy read for someone whose mind is artsier than scientific. Many books of late that deal with the physics of time and the perception of time. Quantum Physics of Time Travel is probably the most informative. It is all truly...
Columbia University Press, 2023. — 350 p. — ISBN 978-0-231-21098-0, 978-0-231-55868-6. Atoms are unfathomably tiny. It takes fifteen million trillion of them to make up a single poppy seed — give or take a few billion. And there’s hardly anything to them: atoms are more than 99.9999999999 percent empty space. Yet scientists have learned to count these slivers of near...
Medford, USA: Polity Press, 2019. — 156 p. — (New Human Frontiers). — ISBN: 1509522700. Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science's growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are poised to edit, even...
London: Carlton Publishing Group, 2006. — 336 p. — eISBN 9781780131818. Entering the warped world of SJ Perelman - the Marx brothers' greatest scriptwriter, amongst other things - is a unique comic experience. A satirist and parodist, his celebrated sketches lampoon the screaming absurdities of modern life and bring succour to that most persecuted minority of all: the embattled...
Union Square & Co., 2025. — 540 p. This richly illustrated chronology of physics contains more than 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon, the book's timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and...
Wiley, 2022. — 422 p. — (For Dummies). — ISBN 978-1-119-88373-9. Overcome your study inertia and polish your knowledge of physics Physics I: 501 Practice Problems For Dummies gives you 501 opportunities to practice solving problems from all the major topics covered you Physics I class—in the book and online! Get extra help with tricky subjects, solidify what you’ve already...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1965. — 176 с. Автора этой книги, научного исследователя, профессора, доктора физико-математических наук А.И. Китайгородского, никак не упрекнешь в робости. На какие только вопросы не пытается он дать ответ на страницах своей книги! Как найти меру терпения? Возможна ли телепатия? Как оправдываются расходы на научные командировки и конференции? Каков...
Издательские решения, 2015. — 120 с. 16 ил. — ISBN: 978-5-4474-1395-8. Книга представляет собой сборник статей, объединяющих математику, физику, психологию и мифологию. Известно, что время деньги. Если время существует и имеет ценность, то почему мы не можем его накопить на лекции и воспользоваться на перемене, и тем более обменять или продать? Если Времени нет, то, как мы...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 910 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–101734–6. There are many different versions of our creation story. This book tells the version according to modern science. It is a unique account, starting at the Big Bang and traveling right up to the emergence of humans as conscious intelligent beings, 13.8 billion years later. Chapter by chapter, it sets out the...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 296 p. — ISBN 0-300-22339-0, 978-0-300-22339-2, 978-0-300-22812-0. A new generation of observatories, now being completed worldwide, will give astronomers not just a new window on the cosmos but a whole new sense with which to explore and experience the heavens above us. Instead of collecting light waves or radio waves, these novel instruments...
MIT Press, 2022. — 215 p. From the very first moments of the universe to the birth of the first star, our solar system, and our planet: a physicist traces the known and the unknown. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the horizon of our knowledge about the universe has expanded to encompass the infinitesimally small—and the infinitely vast. In First Dawn , physicist...
Persistent Press, 2018. — 346 p. — ISBN: 9780692185018. “The most original and important contribution to the integration of Jungian psychology and physics since the original collaboration between Jung and Pauli.” Sean Kelly, Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies “Timothy Desmond’s theory that the psyche is a gravitational singularity would drive both Isaac...
ForeEdge, 2016. — 192 p. Marcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Now a world-famous theoretical physicist with hundreds of scientific articles and several books of popular science to his credit, he felt it was time to connect with nature in less theoretical ways. After seeing a fly-fishing class...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021. – 208 p. – ISBN-13 9781524749026. Вероятные невозможности: размышления Пантеона о начале и конце From the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams, a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between Can space be divided into...
Bristol, UK: IOP Publishing, 2023. — 134 p. — (IOP Series in Physics Education). — ISBN 978-0-7503-4864-5. Страх перед физикой: и как помочь школьникам его преодолеть Download PDFbook Download ePubbook Download Kindlebook An important area of physics pedagogy is the effect of student attitudes and anxieties on physics education. Due to fear, many intellectually able students...
Epublubre, 2017. Al escribir este libro no me propuse proporcionar al lector nuevos conocimientos, sino más bien ayudarle a «conocer aquello que ya sabe», es decir, a profundizar y animar los conocimientos de Física que ya posee y a estimularle a que los aplique de manera consciente y multifacética. Este propósito se logra examinando toda una serie abigarrada de rompecabezas,...
The Sizes of Everything and Why. — Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 324 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–968119–8 This book is about how big is the universe and how small are quarks, and what are the sizes of dozens of things between these two extremes. It describes the sizes of atoms and planets, quarks and galaxies, cells and sequoias. It is a romp through forty-five orders of...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. — 224 p. — ISBN: 1421402262 (ISBN13: 9781421402260) Tony Stark has been battling bad guys and protecting innocent civilians since he first donned his mechanized armor in the 1963 debut of Iron Man in Marvel Comics. Over the years, Stark’s suit has allowed him to smash through walls, fly through the air like a human jet, control a...
Иерусалим: Млечный путь, 2015. — 458 с. — ISBN 978-1503229808. Эта книга — научная фантастика, но это не художественная проза. Это научно-популярная книга, но большая часть научных идей и достижений, которые она популяризирует, — фантастика. Книга написана в еще не существующем жанре фантастической научной популяризации. Она рассказывает о науке, зарождающейся на наших глазах....
М.: Издательство: Манн, Иванов и Фербер. 2016. — 224 с. ISBN: 978-5-00057-950-3
Увлекательное и доступное объяснение самого известного в мире уравнения через повседневную жизнь. Уравнение E=mc2 визуально знакомо многим. Но далеко не все понимают его физический смысл. В этой книге два профессора раскрывают реальный смысл, стоящий за каждым символом в легендарном уравнении...
Сетевое издание, 2021. Если вы до сих пор думаете, что время существует физически и его можно измерять с помощью механических, электронных или атомных часов, могу вас разочаровать… Времени нет! Есть лишь наше представление о том, что мы хотим и вынуждены называть временем. Именно поэтому путешествие во времени в нашей реальности невозможно. Не верите? Читайте книгу и делайте...
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2016. — 655 p. — ISBN 0140193650. Теория небесного влияния: человек, Вселенная и космическая тайна Originally published in 1954, The Theory of Celestial Influence is an exploration of the universe and man’s place in it. Drawing extensively on the teachings of Russian mathematician and esotericist P. D. Ouspensky and Greek-Armenian Esoteric doctrine...
Basic Books, 1994. — xiv, 162 p. — (Science Masters Series). — ISBN 0-465-04892-7. Ragnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. In The Last Three Minutes, Paul Davies reveals the latest theories. It might end in a whimper, slowly scattering into the infinite void. Then again, it might be yanked back by its own gravity and end...
Epublibre, 2019. Por su corta extensión y su formato de preguntas retadoras y respuestas breves ¿Sabe usted Física? es un libro que despierta la curiosidad y nos engancha en su lectura. ¿Sabías que algunos insectos pueden ejercer una presión de 100.000 atmósferas? ¿Sería posible moverse sobre una superficie plana si no hubiera rozamiento? ¿Cuál sería la mejor forma de saltar...
Epublibre, 2019. Desde que, a principios de los setenta, la editorial Mir consiguió publicar en España sus ediciones de libros científicos, una gran mayoría de estudiantes y profesores nos vimos atraídos por ellos. Además de su precio (eran muy baratos), atraían por la presencia de nuevos enfoques para entender la Ciencia. Junto con ellos, llegaron también los de divulgación...
М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2020. Брайан Грин — крупный физик-теоретик и знаменитый популяризатор науки. Его книги помогли многим познакомиться с теорией струн и другими важнейшими идеями современной физики. «До конца времен» — попытка поиска места для человека в картине мира, которую описывает современная наука. Грин показывает, как в противоборстве двух великих сил — энтропии и...
Пер. с англ. под ред. и с предисл. Е.М. Лейкина. — М.: Мир, 1989. — 272 с., илл. — ISBN 5-03-000546-3. Наука во все времена стремилась построить целостную картину окружающего мира. В последние десятилетия физики как никогда приблизились к осуществлению этой мечты: вырисовываются перспективы объединения четырех фундаментальных взаимодействий природы в рамках одной суперсилы, и...
Москва: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2015. — 430 с. Книга британского физика и философа Дэвида Дойча, одного из создателей концепции квантовых вычислений, наглядно демонстрирует, что эпоха великих философских систем вовсе не осталась в прошлом. Автор выстраивает целостный и согласующийся с научными знаниями ответ на один из самых фундаментальных философских вопросов: какова подлинная...
М.: Манн, Иванов и Фербер, 2016. — 352 с. — ISBN: 978-5-00100-387-8 В книге не менее яркой, чем его знаменитые лекции, профессор Левин рассказывает о самых необычных и интересных гранях физики, о чудесах, которые творятся каждый день вокруг нас, – например, о том, почему ударяет молния. О чем бы ни решил рассказать автор, ему всегда удается совместить обучение с развлечением....
Перевод с итальянского А. К. Дамбис. — Москва : Эксмо, 2024. — 176 с. — (Большая наука). — ISBN 978-5-04-166561-6 Карло Ровелли, один из самых известных в мире физиков-теоретиков, очаровал миллионы читателей своим необычным взглядом на космос. В Гельголанде он исследует непреходящую загадку квантовой теории. Квантовый мир, который описывает Ровелли, столь же прекрасен, сколь и...
М.: АСТ, 2021. — ISBN 978-5-17-133333-1. Что, если времени не существует? Времени, которое мы привыкли мерить часами, сутками, неделями и месяцами, плавно перетекающими в года и десятилетия. Карло Ровелли исследует непреходящую тайну времени и пространства, сталкивая и объединяя друг с другом различные теории. Чем «теория петель» отличается от «теории струн» и каким...
М. : Манн, Иванов и Фербер, 2015. — 336 c. : илл.
Кип Торн, ученый с мировым именем и консультант известной кинокартины Кристофера Нолана «Интерстеллар», в своей книге, глубоко погружаясь в научный мир, подробно объясняет все те невероятные факты о гравитации, черных дырах, пятом измерении и других явлениях, которые визуально воплощены в этом фильме.
Эта книга для всех, кому...
San Diego, 2011. — 202 с. — (Истории о научных озарениях. Книга 1). Книга будет полезна преподавателям школ и профессорам университетов, которым нужно оживить сухой материал своего предмета интересными фактами и жизнеописаниями великих творцов науки. Безусловно, эта книга будет чрезвычайно интересна школьникам и студентам, которым захочется узнать о том, что выходит за рамки...
Издательство не указано, 2022, ISBN: 9781984879455, - 273 с. В книге с точки зрения физика-теоретика разбираются разные важные вопросы, в том числе: Существует ли прошлое? Как началась вселенная? Почему мы не молодеем? Существуют ли наши копии? Отрицает ли физика свободу воли? Думает ли вселенная? Можем ли мы создать вселенную? Важно отличие этой книги от других...
СПб.: Питер, 2020. — 288 с. — (New Science). — ISBN 978-5-4461-1245-6. Музей космонавтики рад представить читателям новую книгу о космосе! Это рассказ о наших шагах на пути познания Вселенной — от кипящей и бурлящей материи до разумных существ, от самых примитивных, сказочных и мифических представлений об устройстве космоса до сегодняшних, поражающих воображение теорий и...
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