Physics
mobi |eng | 2004-05-12 | Author:Close, Frank [Close, Frank]

The basic spark chamber consists of parallel sheets of metal separated by a few millimetres and immersed in an inert (less reactive) gas such as neon. When a charged particle ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics August 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-07-23 | Author:Stannard, Russell [Stannard, Russell]

The twin paradox revisited Knowing now about the effects of acceleration/gravity on clocks, we revisit the twin paradox. Earlier we described how the astronaut twin, having travelled to a distant ...
( Category: Relativity August 21,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2002-05-29 | Author:Polkinghorne, John [Polkinghorne, John]

At most times and in most places, the universe has been devoid of consciousness. Are we to suppose that throughout these vast tracts of cosmic space and time, no quantum ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics August 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-03 | Author:Thomas, Andrew [Thomas, Andrew]

Interestingly, these seemingly unrelated arrows of time all have several features in common. Firstly, all of these arrows of time represent an irreversible process. In the psychological arrow of time, ...
( Category: Time August 21,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Davies

imaginations of many eminent physicists. The problem was first stated clearly by Ludwig Boltzmann in the late nineteenth century, but the controversy continues today. Some scientists have asserted that there ...
( Category: Science & Religion August 19,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pedro G. Ferreira

The Oxford symposium seemed like an admission of defeat, except for one surprising talk by the Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking on black holes and quantum physics. In his talk, Hawking ...
( Category: Relativity August 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Clery, Daniel [CLERY, DANIEL]

The interior of JET, showing limiters on the central column, radio antennas on the outside wall and a divertor at the bottom. (Courtesy of EFDA JET) There was much to ...
( Category: Nuclear July 31,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-25 | Author:Jim Al-Khalili [Al-Khalili, Jim]

Quantum Reality, According to de Broglie and Bohrn Chris Dewdney School of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of Portsmouth Even though the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation is not the most popular ...
( Category: Quantum Theory July 27,2014 )
epub |dua | 1987-12-31 | Author:Stephen W. Hawking [Hawking, Stephen W.]

Figura 6:2 La mejor explicación de este fenómeno es que se está quitando materia de la superficie de la estrella visible. Cuando esta materia cae hacia el compañero invisible, desarrolla ...
( Category: Time July 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Bob Berman

CHAPTER 12: Brooks and Breakers Earth’s Greatest Assets Are Liquid But ol’ man river, He jes’ keeps rollin’ along. —OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II, “OL’ MAN RIVER” (1927) The headline was grim. ...
( Category: Optics July 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:The Princeton Review [Review, The Princeton]

Point of View #2: t Varies, x Does Not Now we will designate one position x along the rope to watch as time varies. One way to do this is ...
( Category: SAT July 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Blakeslee, Sandra & Hawkins, Jeff [Hawkins, Jeff]

WHAT A REGION OF CORTEX LOOKS LIKE We are now going to turn our attention to an individual region of cortex, one of the boxes in figure 5. Figure 6 ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:Alan Lightman [Lightman, Alan]

But why are we attracted to symmetry? Why do we human beings delight in seeing perfectly round planets through the lens of a telescope and six-sided snowflakes on a cold ...
( Category: Astronomy July 4,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Mackenzie, Dana

15 the geometry of whales and ants non-euclidean geometry At the same time that a revolution was going on in algebra, similar events were taking place in geometry. Two millennia ...
( Category: Physics June 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss [Krauss, Lawrence M.]

CHAPTER 12 Rearranging the Universe Resistance is futile. —The Borg, to Captain Picard, in Star Trek: The Next Generation Feynman had explained how the transition that led to superfluid helium ...
( Category: Quantum Theory June 23,2014 )