लेखक: Don S. Lemons

Drawings and short essays offer engaging and accessible explanations of key ideas in physics, from triangulation to relativity and beyond.Humans have been trying to understand the physical universe s …

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What does the path taken by a ray of light share with the trajectory of a thrown baseball and the curve of a wheat stalk bending in the breeze? Each is the subject of a different study yet all are op …

An account of the concepts and intellectual structure of classical thermodynamics that reveals the subject’s simplicity and coherence.Students of physics, chemistry, and engineering are taught classi …

This "lucid, masterfully written introduction to an often difficult subject . . . belongs on the bookshelf of every student of statistical physics" (Dr. Brian J. Albright, Applied Physics D …

An accessible exploration of a notoriously difficult subject, this “gem of physics pedagogy . . . should be required reading for all courses on thermodynamics” (Robert C. Hilborn, Univ …

An account of Max Planck’s construction of his theory of blackbody radiation, summarizing the established physics on which he drew.In the last year of the nineteenth century, Max Planck constructed a …

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