Drawing Physics

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Drawing Physics
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Author : Don S. Lemons
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2017-02-10
Drawing Physics written by Don S. Lemons and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-10 with Science categories.
Drawings and short essays offer engaging and accessible explanations of key ideas in physics, from triangulation to relativity and beyond. Humans have been trying to understand the physical universe since antiquity. Aristotle had one vision (the realm of the celestial spheres is perfect), and Einstein another (all motion is relativistic). More often than not, these different understandings begin with a simple drawing, a pre-mathematical picture of reality. Such drawings are a humble but effective tool of the physicist's craft, part of the tradition of thinking, teaching, and learning passed down through the centuries. This book uses drawings to help explain fifty-one key ideas of physics accessibly and engagingly. Don Lemons, a professor of physics and author of several physics books, pairs short, elegantly written essays with simple drawings that together convey important concepts from the history of physical science. Lemons proceeds chronologically, beginning with Thales' discovery of triangulation, the Pythagorean monocord, and Archimedes' explanation of balance. He continues through Leonardo's description of “earthshine” (the ghostly glow between the horns of a crescent moon), Kepler's laws of planetary motion, and Newton's cradle (suspended steel balls demonstrating by their collisions that for every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction). Reaching the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Lemons explains the photoelectric effect, the hydrogen atom, general relativity, the global greenhouse effect, Higgs boson, and more. The essays place the science of the drawings in historical context—describing, for example, Galileo's conflict with the Roman Catholic Church over his teaching that the sun is the center of the universe, the link between the discovery of electrical phenomena and the romanticism of William Wordsworth, and the shadow cast by the Great War over Einstein's discovery of relativity. Readers of Drawing Physics with little background in mathematics or physics will say, “Now I see, and now I understand.”
Drawing Theories Apart
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Author : David Kaiser
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-11-15
Drawing Theories Apart written by David Kaiser and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-15 with Science categories.
Winner of the 2007 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics since the middle of the twentieth century. Introduced by the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) soon after World War II as a means of simplifying lengthy calculations in quantum electrodynamics, they soon gained adherents in many branches of the discipline. Yet as new physicists adopted the tiny line drawings, they also adapted the diagrams and introduced their own interpretations. Drawing Theories Apart traces how generations of young theorists learned to frame their research in terms of the diagrams—and how both the diagrams and their users were molded in the process. Drawing on rich archival materials, interviews, and more than five hundred scientific articles from the period, Drawing Theories Apart uses the Feynman diagrams as a means to explore the development of American postwar physics. By focusing on the ways young physicists learned new calculational skills, David Kaiser frames his story around the crafting and stabilizing of the basic tools in the physicist's kit—thus offering the first book to follow the diagrams once they left Feynman's hands and entered the physics vernacular.
Annual Catalogue
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Author : Massachusetts Institute of Technology
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1867
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Journal
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Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
Journal written by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with categories.
Votes Proceedings
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Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
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Annual Register Of The United States Naval Academy Annapolis Md
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Author : United States Naval Academy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Annual Register Of The United States Naval Academy Annapolis Md written by United States Naval Academy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with categories.
Official Register Of The Officers And Cadets
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Author : United States Military Academy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
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Circular Of Information Of The Bureau Of Education For
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Author : Charles Homer Haskins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
Circular Of Information Of The Bureau Of Education For written by Charles Homer Haskins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with Education categories.
Report Of The Commissioner Of Education Made To The Secretary Of The Interior For The Year With Accompanying Papers
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Author : United States. Bureau of Education
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Report Of The Commissioner Of Education Made To The Secretary Of The Interior For The Year With Accompanying Papers written by United States. Bureau of Education and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with Education categories.
Bulletin
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
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