Physics
epub |eng | 2005-06-21 | Author:Alan Lightman [Lightman, Alan]

But the story was far from over. Although Fleming had discovered a powerful antibiotic, the substance had to be isolated, concentrated, and chemically purified before it could be of any ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Chris Impey

10 Remote Sensing _______________________ Extending Our Senses What if we could have the experience of space travel without actually making the journey? The cost and difficulty of protecting fragile humans ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight June 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:Don S. Lemons & Don S. Lemons [Lemons]

( Category: Mathematical Physics June 16,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-07-04 | Author:Clegg, Brian [Clegg, Brian]

The Eureka moment Just producing graphene was a remarkable breakthrough in itself, but what would change the Manchester discovery from something merely interesting into a whole new potential field of ...
( Category: Electromagnetism June 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-14 | Author:Brian Clegg [Brian Clegg]

Maxwell’s electromagnetic spheres Maxwell’s first attempt with his mechanical model was to imagine that the magnetic field was made up of a collection of spheres,‡‡ tightly packed to fill space. ...
( Category: Electromagnetism June 15,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-07-20 | Author:Brian Clegg [Clegg, Brian]

Figure 5.6. The spaceship speeds away. To keep things really simple, we’re going to measure time in years and distance in light-years (i.e., the distance light travels in a year—around ...
( Category: Quantum Theory June 15,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2019-02-19 | Author:Bob Berman

It’s not known whether the popular 1940s and 1950s star who was born Frances Rose Shore derived her stage name from the suspiciously similar dino-saur, which means “terrible lizard.” (Paramount ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 12,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Aguirre, Anthony [Aguirre, Anthony]

Our minds are quite good at understanding small numbers like 3 and 46: we can crisply picture 3 objects, and we have a clear, if hazy, sense of what 46 ...
( Category: Cosmology June 11,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-01-07 | Author:Steinhardt, Paul [Steinhardt, Paul]

Did this person or this place really exist? A leading Russian academician told us there was a very simple possible explanation: Maybe Kryachko was a fictional character and the Listvenitovyi ...
( Category: Mineralogy June 8,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:Kunal K. Das

Figure 4.5 When light travels from one medium (water) to another medium (air) where its speed is different, it bends at the surface in order to take the path of ...
( Category: Quantum Theory May 31,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-30 | Author:Jo Dunkley

They had expected to see something quite different. Based on what could be seen of the stars and gas and dust, the galaxies seemed to have a bright and dense ...
( Category: Astronomy May 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-24 | Author:Thomas, Andrew [Thomas, Andrew]

Turing proposed that that piece of code — which performs the halting test — could then be included as part of the following program: You will see from the flowchart ...
( Category: Physics May 29,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Sautoy, Marcus Du [Sautoy, Marcus Du]

IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE? It is striking how often cosmology and religion have intersected throughout history. The question of what might lie beyond the edge of the universe has ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics May 27,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-11-15 | Author:Jo Dunkley

They had expected to see something quite different. Based on what could be seen of the stars and gas and dust, the galaxies seemed to have a bright and dense ...
( Category: Astronomy May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-28 | Author:Richard P. Feynman [Feynman, Richard P.]

( Category: Scientists May 16,2019 )