Author: William H. Cropper
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: physicists, hawking, galileo, times, life, leading
Number of Pages: 514
Published: 2001-11-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0195137485
ISBN-13: 9780195137484

Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics. William H. Cropper vividly portrays the life and accomplishments of such giants as Galileo and Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, right up to contemporary figures such as Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, and Stephen Hawking. We meet scientists--all geniuses--who could be gregarious, aloof, unpretentious, friendly, dogged, imperious, generous to colleagues or contentious rivals. As Cropper captures their personalities,

Author: N MacDonald
Publisher: IOP
Keywords: physicists, reduce
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 0750302771
ISBN-13: 9780750302777

Provides a comprehensive introduction to REDUCE with the needs of physicists primarily in mind. Takes account of changes to REDUCE for Version 3.4. DLC: Physics-Data processing.

Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: physicists
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1994-01-21
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802150888
ISBN-13: 9780802150882

The world’s greatest physicist, Johann Wilhelm Möbius, is in a madhouse, haunted by recurring visions of King Solomon. He is kept company by two other equally deluded scientists: one who thinks he is Einstein, another who believes he is Newton. It soon becomes evident, however, that these three are not as harmlessly lunatic as they appear. Are they, in fact, really mad? Or are they playing some murderous game, with the world as the stake? For Möbius has uncovered the mystery of the universe—and therefore the key to its destruction—and Einstein and Newton are vying for this secret that

Author: T. E. Faber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: physicists, dynamics, fluid
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 1995-08-25
List price: $93.00
ISBN-10: 0521429692
ISBN-13: 9780521429696

This textbook provides an accessible and comprehensive account of fluid dynamics that emphasizes fundamental physical principles and stresses connections with other branches of physics. Beginning with a basic introduction, the book goes on to cover many topics not typically treated in texts, such as compressible flow and shock waves, sound attenuation and bulk viscosity, solitary waves and ship waves, thermal convection, instabilities, turbulence, and the behavior of anisotropic, non-Newtonian and quantum fluids. Undergraduate or graduate students in physics or engineering who are taking cours

Author:
Publisher: Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
Keywords: physicists, geometry, differential, modern
Published: 2002
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8177643169
ISBN-13: 9788177643169

Author: Brian G. Wybourne
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Keywords: physicists, groups, classical
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1974-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0471965057
ISBN-13: 9780471965053

Author: Ian Glass
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: physicists, astro, cosmos, revolutionaries
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 2006-01-19
List price: $109.99
ISBN-10: 0198570996
ISBN-13: 9780198570998

Galileo, Newton, Herschel, Huggins, Hale, Eddington, Shapley and Hubble: these astronomers applied ideas drawn from physics to astronomy and made dramatic changes to the world-pictures that they inherited. They showed that celestial objects are composed of the same materials as the earth and that they behave in the same way. They displaced successively the earth, the sun and finally the milky way galaxy from being the centre of the universe. This book contains their biographies and outlines their greatest discoveries. Hard work, physical insight, desire for fame and a strong belief in the