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21st Century Physics Flexbookby Mark Clemente, at al. - CK-12 Foundation , 2009
Contents: Gravitation; Nuclear Energy; The Standard Model of Particle Physics; The Standard Model and Beyond; A Brief Synopsis of Modern Physics; Nanoscience; Biophysics; Kinematics: Motion, Work, and Energy; Laboratory Activities; etc.
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21st Century Scienceby James Schombert - University of Oregon , 2008
A review of the foundations of modern science emphasizing the status of our current view of Nature. The text is an introduction to the philosophy used to explore the meaning of reality. It is a non-mathematical course with a modern perspective.
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A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physicsby David J. Raymond , 2008
This text developed out of a beginning physics course for students with a strong interest in physics. Starting with waves and relativity, the author develops all of physics in a modern context rather than adding a bit of modern physics at the end.
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Albert Einstein: Image and Impact- American Institute of Physics , 2004
His theories and philosophy rose above a turbulent life. The story, checked for accuracy by leading historians, will interest all readers. Enhanced with striking pictures, voice clips, and essays, this is a one-stop source for Einstein information.
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Applications of Classical Physicsby Roger D. Blandford, Kip S. Thorne - California Institute of Technology , 2008
An introduction to the fundamentals and applications of all the major branches of classical physics. We shall take a journey through spacetime and phase space, through statistical and continuum mechanics, and through optics and relativity.
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Basic Physics- CK-12 Foundation , 2009
The book gives a multifaceted strategy to teach physics conceptually and mathematically. Contents: Units; Wave; Light; Optics; Force; Motion; Projectile Motion; Momentum; Energy; Heat; Circular Motion; Gravity; Electrostatics; DC Electric Circuits.
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Calculus-Based Physics Volume 1by Jeffrey W. Schnick , 2007
An introductory physics textbook, volume 1 covers conservation energy and momentum, motion, force, Newton’s laws, circular motion, moment of inertia, statics, work and energy, impulse and momentum, oscillations, waves, fluids, thermodynamics.
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Calculus-Based Physics Volume 2by Jeffrey W. Schnick , 2006
An introductory physics textbook, volume 2 covers the electric field, potential, voltage, electric current, resistors, Kirchhoff’s rules, magnetic field, electromagnetic waves, diffraction, interference, geometric optics, Maxwell’s equations.
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College Physics for Students of Biology and Chemistryby Kenneth R. Koehler - Raymond Walters College , 2003
This textbook is intended as a vehicle for students in the biological and chemical sciences, enabling them to understand the physical underpinnings of their later studies. The systems under investigation will relate to human physiology.
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Computational Physicsby Morten Hjorth-Jensen - University of Oslo , 2007
These notes should train you in an algorithmic approach to problems in the sciences, represented here by the unity of three disciplines, physics, mathematics and informatics. This trinity outlines the emerging field of computational physics.
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Computational Physicsby Angus MacKinnon - Imperial College London , 2002
This course aims to give the student a thorough grounding in the main computational techniques used in modern physics. This is not a text in computing science, nor in programming. It focuses specifically on methods for solving physics problems.
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Conceptual Physicsby Benjamin Crowell - Lightandmatter.com , 2007
Conceptual Physics is a nonmathematical physics textbook, dealing with conservation of mass and energy, conservation of momentum, conservation of angular momentum, relativity, electricity, fields, the ray model of light and waves.
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Conservation Lawsby Benjamin Crowell , 2007
This is a textbook for an introductory college physics class. The text covers conservation of energy, momentum, and angular momentum. The treatment is algebra-based, with applications of calculus discussed in optional sections.
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Discover Physicsby Benjamin Crowell - Lightandmatter.com , 2007
This is a conceptual physics textbook intended for students in a nonmathematical one-semester general-education course. The text covers conservation laws, electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic fields, theory of relativity and optics.
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Doing Physics with Quaternionsby Douglas B. Sweetser , 2005
Quaternions, like the real numbers, can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided. They are composed of four numbers that work together as one. This book contains a brief summary of important laws in physics written as quaternions.
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Elementary Physics for Engineersby J. Paley Yorke - Cambridge University Press , 1916
An elementary textbook for first year students taking an engineering course. The author presents some essential facts of elementary physics as briefly and straightforwardly as possible without any insistence upon details of no practical importance.
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Elements of Early Modern Physicsby J. L. Heilbron - University of California Press , 1982
Part 1 is a very general and discursive survey of 17th century physics; Part 2 is a valuable comparison of the various institutional settings in which 17th and 18th century scientists worked; Part 3 is a history of electricity up to about 1800.
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Endless Amusement- Lea and Blanchard , 1847
A collection of experiments in various branches of science, including acoustics, electricity, magnetism, arithmetic, hydraulics, mechanics, chemistry, hydrostatics, optics, the air-pump, all the popular tricks and changes of the cards, etc.
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Essential Physics 1by Frank W. K. Firk , 2000
Introduction to classical and special relativity, Newtonian dynamics and gravitation, Einsteinian dynamics and gravitation, and wave motion. This is a book for first-year college students who have an interest in pursuing a career in Physics.
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Essentials of Applied Physicsby Royal M. Frye - Prentice Hall , 1947
This textbook is designed to meet the needs of schools where a more concise course is given. The orthodox arrangement of, first, mechanics, then sound, heat, electricity, and light is followed. Numerous problems are completely worked out.
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FHSST Physics- Wikibooks , 2005
A high school textbook on physics covering waves and wavelike motion, forces, momentum, work and energy, collisions, gravitation, pressure, heat, electrostatics, electricity, magnetism, electronics, the atom, modern physics, atomic nucleus.
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General Physics: An Elementary Text-Book for Collegesby Henry Crew - MacMillan , 1908
The fundamental principles of physics are covered: kinematics, simple harmonic motion, some general and special properties of matter, waves, sound, theory of heat, magnetism, electrostatics, electric currents, light, optical instruments.
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General Scienceby Bertha M. Clark - American Book Company , 1912
Temperature and heat, food, water, air, gases, light, refraction, photography, color, the power behind the engine, pumps, fermentation, bleaching, dyeing, drugs and patent medicines, sound, musical instruments, electricity, magnets and currents.
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GRE Physics Test Practice Book- Educational Testing Service. , 2004
The test consists of approximately 100 five-choice questions, based on diagrams, experimental data, and descriptions of physical situations. Questions can be answered on the basis of a mastery of the first three years of undergraduate physics.
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Handbook of Formulae and Physical Constants- Power Engineering Training Systems , 2003
For the use of students and examination candidates, approved by the Interprovincial Power Engineering Curriculum Committee and the Provincial Chief Inspectors' Association's Committee for the standardization of Power Engineer's Examinations in Canada.
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Hitchhiker's Guide to First Year Physics Labs at UCDby Philip Ilten - arXiv , 2010
The book is intended to complement the UCD first year laboratory manuals, but can also be read independently. The book spans a wide range of subjects, beginning with experimental techniques, moving onto classical mechanics, touching on EM, and more.
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Introduction to Computational Physicsby Franz J. Vesely - University of Vienna , 2006
The essential point in computational physics is the systematic application of numerical techniques in place of, and in addition to, analytical methods, in order to render accessible to computation as large a part of physical reality as possible.
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Introduction to Many Body Physicsby Piers Coleman - Rutgers University , 2004
Many body physics provides the framework for understanding the collective behavior of vast assemblies of interacting particles. This text provides an introduction to this field, introducing you to the main techniques and concepts.
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Introductory Physics Iby Robert G. Brown , 2008
A free textbook for Newtonian mechanics, waves and oscillations, and thermodynamics. This text is intended to be used in the first semester of a two-semester series of courses teaching introductory physics at the college level.
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Kerala Physics- Government of Kerala , 2004
Physics textbook for a high-school audience: heat, heating and lighting effects of electricity, electromagnetic induction, generation and distribution of electric power, light, nuclear physics, electronics, our universe, sources of energy.
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Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratoryby J. L. Heilbron, Robert W. Seidel - University of California Press , 1989
The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This volume is a saga of physics and finance in the Great Depression, when a new kind of science was born.
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Modelling Rationality... and Beyond the Physicsby Gh. C. Dinulescu-Campina - American Research Press , 2002
The author is convinced that the Platonic theory of reminiscence is not a mere speculation, and the meaning of the spirit of science is the expression of a natural phenomenon which in the sense of the MESER concept is called revelation.
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Motion Mountainby Christoph Schiller
The physics textbook written for the curious reader. It is surprising, entertaining and challenging on every page. It covers fascinating parts of mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity, electrodynamics, quantum theory and unification theories.
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Multigrid Methods for Structured Grids and their Application in Particle Simulationby Matthias Bolten - John von Neumann Institute for Computing , 2008
This work is focused on the application of multigrid methods to particle simulation methods. Particle simulation is important for a broad range of scientific fields, like biophysics, astrophysics or plasma physics, to name a few.
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One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Scienceby George Gamow - The Viking Press , 1947
Facts and speculation of Science. Lucid and entertaining explanations of the universe. This book is an excellent review of many facets of physics, mathematics and astronomy. Recommended to anyone interested in methematics, physics, and science.
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Order-of-Magnitude Physicsby P. Goldreich, S. Mahajan, S. Phinney - University of Cambridge , 1999
This book teaches the art of approximation: dimensional analysis, guessing, and lying. To illustrate these techniques, we study the physics of everyday phenomena. The audience for the book includes graduates and upper-level undergraduates in physics.
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Physics for College Studentsby Henry S. Carhart - Allyn and Bacon , 1910
Contents: MECHANICS (Kinematics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Fluids); SOUND (Waves, Transmission, Music); LIGHT (Nature of Light, Sensations of Color, Optical Instruments); HEAT (Transmission and Radiation, Thermodynamics); MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY.
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Physics for Entertainmentby Yakov Perelman - Foreign Languages Publishing House , 1913
Conundrums, brain-teasers, entertaining anecdotes, and unexpected comparisons. Published in 1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, the book Physics for Entertainment influenced science students around the world.
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Physics for Technical Studentsby William Ballantyne Anderson - McGraw-Hill , 1914
The practical side of the subject has been emphasized throughout. This method will sustain interest in the subject by showing its applications. More space than usual has been devoted to Force, Torque, Translatory Motion, and Rotary Motion.
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Physics for University Studentsby Henry Smith Carhart - Allyn and Bacon , 1894
Contents: HEAT: Temperature and its Measurement; Expansion; Transmission of Heat; Radiation and Absorption; Thermodynamics; Kinetic Theory of Gases; ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM: Electric Charges; Electrical Potential; Capacity and Condensers; etc.
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Physics Formularyby Johan Wevers , 2008
This 108 pages document contains a lot of equations in physics. It is written at advanced undergraduate/postgraduate level. It is intended to be a short reference for anyone who works with physics and often needs to look up equations.
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Physics Study Guideby Karl Wick, at al. - Wikibooks , 2007
This guide is meant as a supplement to a year long freshman level physics course with a trigonometry prerequisite. The overview of equations and definitions and eventually sample problem solutions are pertinent to an introductory physics course.
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Practical Physicsby R. A. Millikan, H. G. Gale, W. R. Pyle - Ginn & Company , 1922
The chief aim of this book in all of its editions has been to present elementary physics in such a way as to stimulate the pupil to do some thinking on his own account about the hows and whys of the physical world in which he lives.
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Practical Physicsby R. Glazebrook, N. Shaw - Longmans , 1889
This book is intended for the assistance of Students and Teachers in Physical Laboratories. Our general aim has been to give the reader a practical acquaintance with methods of measurement, and also the important principles of the various subjects.
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Simple Natureby Benjamin Crowell , 2008
A calculus-based textbook for an introductory physics course. It covers mechanics, conservation laws, thermodynamics, and relativity. The 2nd part covers electricity and magnetism, and quantum physics. The new edition includes a chapter on optics.
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The Clock and the Arrow: A Brief Theory of Timeby Claes Johnson , 2008
The basic idea of this book is to study the concept of time viewing the World as the result of some form of computation of finite precision. This is a modification the classical mechanistic idea of the World as a clock of infinite precision.
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The Data Analysis BriefBookby Rudolf K. Bock, Werner Krischer - Springer , 2010
A condensed handbook, or an extended glossary, written in encyclopedic format, covering subjects in statistics, computing, analysis, and related fields. It intends to be both introduction and reference for data analysts, scientists and engineers.
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The Dimensional Structure of Consciousnessby Samuel Avery - Compari , 1995
A radical interpretation of modern physics. Rather than consciousness existing in space and time, it is suggested that the strange phenomena associated with quantum physics are better understood if space and time are structures within consciousness.
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The Nature of the Physical Worldby Arthur S. Eddington - The Macmillan Company , 1928
Lectures that Eddington delivered in 1927. It treats the philosophical outcome of the great changes of scientific thought which had come about. The theory of relativity and the quantum theory led to strange new conceptions of the physical world.
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The New Physics and Its Evolutionby Lucien Poincare - D. Appleton and Company , 1909
This book, while avoiding purely technical details, tries to make known the general results at which physicists have lately arrived, and indicates the direction and import which should be ascribed to those speculations on the constitution of matter.
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The Open Agenda: Ideas a beginning physics teacher should not take for grantedby John Daicopoulos - RenegadeScience.com , 2009
A short book on those fundamental day-to-day nuances and habits every physics teacher needs to do in order to teach the physics content. Based on almost twenty years of teaching high school and first-year university physics.
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The People's Physics Bookby James H. Dann, James J. Dann - SCIPP , 2006
A textbook for high school and college physics students and teachers. It is intended to be used as one small part of a multifaceted strategy to teach physics conceptually and mathematically. It is intended as a reference guide and problem text.
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The Physics Hypertextbookby Glenn Elert - physics.info , 2010
Table of Contents: Prefaces; Mechanics (Kinematics, Dynamics, Energy, Rotational Motion, Planetary Motion, Periodic Motion, Fluids); Thermal Physics; Waves and Optics; Electricity and Magnetism; Modern Physics; Foundations.
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Thinking About the Brainby William Bialek - arXiv , 2002
We all are fascinated by the phenomena of intelligent behavior, as generated by our own brains. As physicists we want to understand if there are some general principles that govern the dynamics of the neural circuits that underlie these phenomena.
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Understanding Physicsby Faraz Hussain
Understanding Physics is an introductory book focusing on simple explanations of basic physics concepts. The book is also sprinkled with general articles on engineering to help you understand how physics is applied in the real world.
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Unfolding the Labyrinth: Open Problems in Mathematics, Physics, Astrophysics, and Other Areas of Scienceby Florentin Smarandache, at al. - arXiv , 2006
Throughout this book, the authors discuss some open problems in various branches of science, including mathematics, theoretical physics, astrophysics, geophysics, etc. Some parts of these problems may be found useful for scholarly stimulation.
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What is Motionby Boris Dmitriev - QuantaOfMotion.com , 2010
The author created the universal theory of motion meeting the requirements of natural science that continuously grow. A reader is supposed to have sufficient knowledge of general problems of modern physics to comprehensively read this study.
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