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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