Physics
epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Susskind, Leonard & Hrabovsky, George [Susskind, Leonard]

The notation for generalized momentum is pi. With that definition, the Euler-Lagrange equations are Let’s do a couple of examples starting with a particle in polar coordinates. In this case ...
( Category: Physics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Marcus Chown [Marcus Chown]

Greenhouse warming Carbon dioxide is of course the gas that is produced by the burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal and whose concentration in the atmosphere has ...
( Category: Cosmology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-28 | Author:Albert-Laszlo Barabasi [Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo]

18 “Villain!” July 19, 1507 It seems every family has at at least one remarkable ancestor—a witty great-aunt whose personality shines through generations or a great-great-grandfather whose deeds survive the ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1996-09-24 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss [Krauss, Lawrence M.]

CHAPTER SEVEN HOLODECKS AND HOLOGRAMS “Oh, we are us, sir. They are also us. So, indeed, we are both us.” —Data to Picard and Riker, in “We’ll Always Have Paris” ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:James Owen Weatherall

The ideas at the heart of Farmer’s and Packard’s work were first developed by a man named Edward Lorenz. As a young boy, Lorenz thought he wanted to be a ...
( Category: Mathematical Physics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Ray Monk [Monk, Ray]

When Bohr read this account, he was appalled at how little it accorded with his own memory of that meeting, and so he wrote, but did not send, a letter ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Walter Lewin & Warren Goldstein

CHAPTER 8 The Mysteries of Magnetism For most of us magnets are just fun, partly because they exert forces that we can feel and play with, and at the same ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:John Gribbin

Back to the future This new speculation stemmed from Schrödinger’s early fascination with thermodynamics and the way the world is governed by statistical laws. He noticed that his wave equation ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Stephen]

INTEREST IN gravitational collapse was reawakened in the early 1960s with the discovery of quasars, very distant objects that are very compact and powerful optical and radio sources. Matter falling ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Carlson, W. Bernard

FIGURE 13.3. Interior of the experimental station showing the components that provided power to the primary coil of the magnifying transmitter. In the front are the capacitors and behind them ...
( Category: Electricity March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-04-30 | Author:Leonard Mlodinow [MLODINOW, LEONARD]

XII SPRING WAS NEAR. It’s a nice season in Pasadena—warm weather, but not yet hot, and less rain than winter. A time to enjoy the blue sky, palm trees, and ...
( Category: Thermodynamics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Sterne

Keyword: Record Although the exhibitions of 1878 were short-lived, Redpath quickly went on to fresh projects, and souvenir sheets of tinfoil were soon forgotten, the medium of sound recording had ...
( Category: Acoustics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Silver, Jerry [Silver, Jerry]

Method Set up a basic pendulum with a measured length and mass free to swing. Pull the pendulum back to the side through a small (less than 15 degrees) angle ...
( Category: Experiments & Projects March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Melanie Mitchell

Being a Copycat Doug Hofstadter’s plan was for me to write a computer program that could make analogies in the letter-string world by employing the same kinds of mechanisms that ...
( Category: System Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-07-13 | Author:Cox, Brian & Forshaw, Jeff [Cox, Brian]

FIGURE 11 Let’s take a closer look at the three-dimensional momentum vector. Figure 11 shows an arrow in space. It might represent the amount by which a ball moves as ...
( Category: Relativity March 25,2014 )