Motion Mountain - The Adventure of Physics
Edition: Pdf file
Published: Europe
Place of publication: www.motionmountain.net
Language: eng
Format: eBook (PDF)
Number of pages: 1498
ISBN-13: 9783000219467
Subjects: Physics
Genres: Textbook
First sentence: What is the most daring and amazing journey we can make in a lifetime? We can travel to remote places, like adventurers, explorers or cosmonauts; we can look at even more distant places, like astronomers; we can visit the past, like historians, archeologists, evolutionary biologists or geologists; or we can delve deeply into the human interior, like artists or psychologists. All the voyages lead either to other places or to other times. However, we can do better.
Description: A simple, vivid and up-to-date introduction to modern physics. 'Simple' means that concepts are stressed more than formalism; 'vivid' means that the reader is continuously entertained, motivated and challenged; 'up-to-date' means that modern research and present ideas about unification are included.
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Table of contents: title: Preface - page 10; title: First Part - Fall, Flow and Heat  - page 19; title: Second Part - Relativity - page 369; title: Third Part - Light, Charges and Brains - page 631; title: Fourth Part - Quantum Theory: the Smallest Change - page 925; title: Fifth Part - Pleasure, Technology and Stars - page 1063; title: Sixth Part - Motion Without Motion: What Are Space, Time and Particles? - page 1289; title: Postface - page 1429; title: Indices - page 1430