Physics
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Manjit Kumar

Zurich lay well outside the golden quantum triangle of Copenhagen, Göttingen and Munich. As the new physics of wave mechanics spread like wildfire through Europe's physics community in the spring ...
( Category: Quantum Theory September 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-14 | Author:deGrasse Tyson, Neil [Neil, deGrasse Tyson,]

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...
( Category: Science & Religion September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes

The target sphere could be simply welded to the muzzle of a cannon; then the cylinder, which might weigh about a hundred pounds, could be fired up the barrel like ...
( Category: Nuclear September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Stone, A. Douglas

FIGURE 20.1. Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in discussion, circa 1925–30. Photograph by Paul Ehren fest, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. So this was the revolutionary step that Einstein, ...
( Category: Quantum Theory September 16,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-14 | Author:William Gurstelle

Building the Sublimator Gather all of your materials and tools. If you’ve made the spud gun, you’re already familiar with how to work with PVC to make a backyard ballistic ...
( Category: Mechanics September 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Lenk, Ron, Lenk, Carol & Carol Lenk

We’ll make a brief comment on EMI standards in the United States versus those in the European Union (EU). These standards are fundamentally very similar. The only significant difference at ...
( Category: Electronics September 15,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Clegg

PLENTY OF ROOM OUTSIDE When we consider Mars as a potential new frontier, it has a lot going for it. In terms of sheer scale, it dwarfs any new region ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science September 8,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:Brooks, Michael [Brooks, Michael]

For a period of time, during a reversal there is no clearly defined field. So, could this happen with the Earth’s magnetic field, with potentially disastrous results? Unfortunately, even these ...
( Category: Physics September 4,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:Randall Munroe

To act as a parachute, a balloon filled with air—rather than helium—would have to be 10 to 20 meters across, far too big to be inflated with portable tanks. A ...
( Category: Humor September 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Kai Bird

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT “He Couldn’t Understand Why He Did It” He told me that his nerve just gave way at that moment. . . . He has this tendency when things ...
( Category: United States September 1,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2002-08-29 | Author:G. Randy Slone

An oscillogram showing the hard-clipping action from a typical solid-state audio power amplifier when the amplifier is overdriven. An oscillogram illustrating the soft-clipping action from the Fig. 6-21 L-MOSFET audio ...
( Category: Acoustics August 30,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-01 | Author:David Hitt & Heather R. Smith

21. Challenger in orbit on STS-7 with the remote manipulator system arm in the shape of the number 7. Courtesy NASA. Unbeknownst to the astronauts, flipping the switches in the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight August 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-23 | Author:Gebre Waddell

* However, higher-order filters, such as fourth order, with practical usefulness perhaps up to sixth order, may produce flatter passbands and sharper bandedges, as shown by Dr. Sophocles Orfanidis in ...
( Category: Digital Audio, Video & Photography August 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:Carolyn Collins Petersen [Petersen, Carolyn Collins]

This is the geometry of a gravitational lens. Light travels from the distant object, but its path is distorted by the gravitational pull of a massive object along the way. ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science August 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-22 | Author:Coles, Peter [Coles, Peter]

Turning back the clock The production of the microwave background during the epoch of recombination and the synthesis of the elements during the nuclear fireball are two major successes of ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science August 21,2014 )