Physics

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e-books in this category

21st Century Physics Flexbook
by 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.
(1464 views)

21st Century Science
by 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.
(3203 views)

A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physics
by 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.
(5108 views)

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.
(2870 views)

Applications of Classical Physics
by 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.
(1733 views)

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.
(1858 views)

Calculus-Based Physics Volume 1
by 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.
(3291 views)

Calculus-Based Physics Volume 2
by 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.
(3043 views)

College Physics for Students of Biology and Chemistry
by 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.
(3167 views)

Computational Physics
by Morten Hjorth-Jensen - University of Oslo, , 2008
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.
(1520 views)

Computational Physics
by 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.
(1114 views)

Conceptual Physics
by Benjamin Crowell , 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.
(1962 views)

Conservation Laws
by 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.
(3652 views)

Discover Physics
by Benjamin Crowell , 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.
(1664 views)

Doing Physics with Quaternions
by 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.
(3764 views)

Essential Physics 1
by 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.
(1743 views)

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.
(1713 views)

General Physics: An Elementary Text-Book for Colleges
by 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.
(851 views)

General Science
by 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.
(3993 views)

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.
(1964 views)

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.
(5382 views)

Introduction to Many Body Physics
by 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.
(1137 views)

Introductory Physics I
by 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.
(1758 views)

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.
(1472 views)

Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
by 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.
(1995 views)

Lawrence and the Cyclotron
by Peter Westwick - American Institute of Physics , 2009
As he built machines to study subatomic particles, Ernest Lawrence created modern "Big Science." After helping make the first atomic bombs, he became a leader of Cold War science. His biography is illustrated with pictures, explanations and a song.
(2226 views)

Modelling Rationality... and Beyond the Physics
by 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.
(2378 views)

Motion Mountain
by 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.
(1560 views)

One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
by George Gamow - Dover Publications , 1988
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.
(2881 views)

Order-of-Magnitude Physics
by 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.
(1021 views)

Physics for Entertainment
by 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.
(1618 views)

Physics Formulary
by 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.
(2490 views)

Practical Physics
by 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.
(1353 views)

Simple Nature
by 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.
(1495 views)

The Clock and the Arrow: A Brief Theory of Time
by 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.
(1194 views)

The Nature of the Physical World
by 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.
(1197 views)

The Open Agenda: Ideas a beginning physics teacher should not take for granted
by 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.
(1810 views)

The People's Physics Book
by 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.
(1818 views)

Thinking About the Brain
by 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.
(1870 views)

Understanding Physics
by 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.
(3737 views)