Author: William Edward Ayrton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Practical Electricity: a Laboratory and Lecture Course
Author: William Edward Ayrton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
For the Love of Physics
Author: Walter Lewin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439123543
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
“YOU HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE” is a common refrain in the emails Walter Lewin receives daily from fans who have been enthralled by his world-famous video lectures about the wonders of physics. “I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through physics-colored eyes,” wrote one such fan. When Lewin’s lectures were made available online, he became an instant YouTube celebrity, and The New York Times declared, “Walter Lewin delivers his lectures with the panache of Julia Child bringing French cooking to amateurs and the zany theatricality of YouTube’s greatest hits.” For more than thirty years as a beloved professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lewin honed his singular craft of making physics not only accessible but truly fun, whether putting his head in the path of a wrecking ball, supercharging himself with three hundred thousand volts of electricity, or demonstrating why the sky is blue and why clouds are white. Now, as Carl Sagan did for astronomy and Brian Green did for cosmology, Lewin takes readers on a marvelous journey in For the Love of Physics, opening our eyes as never before to the amazing beauty and power with which physics can reveal the hidden workings of the world all around us. “I introduce people to their own world,” writes Lewin, “the world they live in and are familiar with but don’t approach like a physicist—yet.” Could it be true that we are shorter standing up than lying down? Why can we snorkel no deeper than about one foot below the surface? Why are the colors of a rainbow always in the same order, and would it be possible to put our hand out and touch one? Whether introducing why the air smells so fresh after a lightning storm, why we briefly lose (and gain) weight when we ride in an elevator, or what the big bang would have sounded like had anyone existed to hear it, Lewin never ceases to surprise and delight with the extraordinary ability of physics to answer even the most elusive questions. Recounting his own exciting discoveries as a pioneer in the field of X-ray astronomy—arriving at MIT right at the start of an astonishing revolution in astronomy—he also brings to life the power of physics to reach into the vastness of space and unveil exotic uncharted territories, from the marvels of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud to the unseeable depths of black holes. “For me,” Lewin writes, “physics is a way of seeing—the spectacular and the mundane, the immense and the minute—as a beautiful, thrillingly interwoven whole.” His wonderfully inventive and vivid ways of introducing us to the revelations of physics impart to us a new appreciation of the remarkable beauty and intricate harmonies of the forces that govern our lives.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439123543
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
“YOU HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE” is a common refrain in the emails Walter Lewin receives daily from fans who have been enthralled by his world-famous video lectures about the wonders of physics. “I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through physics-colored eyes,” wrote one such fan. When Lewin’s lectures were made available online, he became an instant YouTube celebrity, and The New York Times declared, “Walter Lewin delivers his lectures with the panache of Julia Child bringing French cooking to amateurs and the zany theatricality of YouTube’s greatest hits.” For more than thirty years as a beloved professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lewin honed his singular craft of making physics not only accessible but truly fun, whether putting his head in the path of a wrecking ball, supercharging himself with three hundred thousand volts of electricity, or demonstrating why the sky is blue and why clouds are white. Now, as Carl Sagan did for astronomy and Brian Green did for cosmology, Lewin takes readers on a marvelous journey in For the Love of Physics, opening our eyes as never before to the amazing beauty and power with which physics can reveal the hidden workings of the world all around us. “I introduce people to their own world,” writes Lewin, “the world they live in and are familiar with but don’t approach like a physicist—yet.” Could it be true that we are shorter standing up than lying down? Why can we snorkel no deeper than about one foot below the surface? Why are the colors of a rainbow always in the same order, and would it be possible to put our hand out and touch one? Whether introducing why the air smells so fresh after a lightning storm, why we briefly lose (and gain) weight when we ride in an elevator, or what the big bang would have sounded like had anyone existed to hear it, Lewin never ceases to surprise and delight with the extraordinary ability of physics to answer even the most elusive questions. Recounting his own exciting discoveries as a pioneer in the field of X-ray astronomy—arriving at MIT right at the start of an astonishing revolution in astronomy—he also brings to life the power of physics to reach into the vastness of space and unveil exotic uncharted territories, from the marvels of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud to the unseeable depths of black holes. “For me,” Lewin writes, “physics is a way of seeing—the spectacular and the mundane, the immense and the minute—as a beautiful, thrillingly interwoven whole.” His wonderfully inventive and vivid ways of introducing us to the revelations of physics impart to us a new appreciation of the remarkable beauty and intricate harmonies of the forces that govern our lives.
Joint Volumes of Papers Presented to the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly
Author: New South Wales. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 1436
Book Description
Includes various departmental reports and reports of commissions. Cf. Gregory. Serial publications of foreign governments, 1815-1931.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 1436
Book Description
Includes various departmental reports and reports of commissions. Cf. Gregory. Serial publications of foreign governments, 1815-1931.
Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
Publisher:
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Catalog of Course of Instruction at the United States Naval Academy
Author: United States Naval Academy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Electrical Journal
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Electric engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
Lessons in Practical Electricity, Principles, Experiments, and Arithmetical Problems
Author: Coates Walton Swoope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Lessons in Practical Electricity
Author: Coates Walton Swoope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Report of the Commissioners on Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial, and Other Forms of Technical Education
Author: New South Wales. Commission on Primary, Secondary, Technical, and Other Branches of Education
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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