Atoms, Galaxies, and Understanding
Subtitle: Cosmology in its simplest form.
Publisher: Understanding Pub. Co.
Published: 1960
Place of publication: El Monte, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Physics.; Universe.
Description: The discussions presented in this book are offered in the hope that they may assist the layman, the beginning student, and perhaps, even a few of the more advanced students of cosmology, in the achievement of an approach to the science which is based upon simple understanding rather than upon the complex and often confusing lattice-work of abstract mathematics which has been erected about it.
Table of contents: label: 1
pagenum: 3
title: Introduction; label: 2
pagenum: 4
title: Definitions; label: 3
pagenum: 6
title: The Building Blocks; label: 4
pagenum: 11
title: Two Hydrogen Atoms in Space; label: 5
pagenum: 15
title: Escape Veloctiy; label: 6
pagenum: 16
title: Statistical Action; label: 7
pagenum: 18
title: Temperature and Heat; label: 8
pagenum: 20
title: Solids, Liquids and Gasses; label: 9
pagenum: 22
title: Heat Transfer; label: 10
pagenum: 24
title: Pressure; label: 11
pagenum: 26
title: The Nonlinearity of Physical law; label: 12
pagenum: 29
title: Gravity; label: 13
pagenum: 36
title: Matter and Mass; label: 14
pagenum: 39
title: Relativity and The Quantity C; label: 15
pagenum: 41
title: New Galaxies