Sketches Of Physics
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Drawing Physics
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Author : Don S. Lemons
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-04-13
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 2018-04-13 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.”
The Rise Of Modern Physics
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Author : Henry Crew
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-07-24
The Rise Of Modern Physics written by Henry Crew and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-24 with Science categories.
Excerpt from The Rise of Modern Physics: A Popular Sketch When so many new and important things are at hand waiting to be done it is not easy to answer the question as to just how much time the consideration of the past deserves. All of us are probably agreed that the past must be kept in the background; and yet we are almost unanimous in thinking that the past must not be for gotten. A thing which is not to be forgotten must be known. The following pages represent what might be called an irreducible minimum for one who wishes to acquire a just perspective by not forgetting the past in physical science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Rise Of Modern Physics
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Author : Henry Crew
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
The Rise Of Modern Physics written by Henry Crew and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with Physics categories.
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.
Close Encounters Of Art And Physics
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Author : Laura Pesce
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-09-30
Close Encounters Of Art And Physics written by Laura Pesce and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with Science categories.
Close Encounters of Art and Physics is a voyage in time through the abstract ideas harboured in the minds of humans, starting from the graffiti art of cave dwellers and extending to the street art of contemporary men and women. In seeking parallels with science, the author looks far back to the first geometric ideas of our ancestors as well as ahead to the contemporary science of present-day physicists. The parallelism and analogies between these two fields bear witness to a real entanglement in the human brain. The second part of the book contains about 25 colour images showing the author's stunning glass artwork representing ideas such as dark matter, quantum entanglement, cellular automata and many others that are almost impossible to capture in words. Furthermore, many of the physicists who have themselves made major contributions in these fields provide their comments and analysis of the works. The book provides entertaining and informative reading, not only for practicing artists and physicists, but also anyone curious about art and physics.
Art Physics
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Author : Leonard Shlain
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date : 1991
Art Physics written by Leonard Shlain and has been published by William Morrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Art categories.
Art interprets the visible world; physics charts its unseen workings--and so the two disciplines seem constantly opposed. In this remarkable book, Shlain examines the radical breakthroughs in art and physics side by side, throughout history, in every era, and reveals astonishing similarities of vision. "A fascinating study of common archetypes in art and science".--Nick Herbert, author of Quantuum Reality. 72 black-and-white photographs.
Science Sketches
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Author : Sidney Perkowitz
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2022-03-10
Science Sketches written by Sidney Perkowitz and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-10 with Mathematics categories.
This book is the second collection of over 50 articles and essays authored by Sidney Perkowitz. Appearing in diverse outlets such as Discover, Washington Post, Aeon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nautilus, Museum of the Moving Image, and Physics World, they represent the best of his writing about science and technology, and their links to culture and society, the arts and the media, and the humanities. Written for general readers, the pieces explore the outer and inner universes from cosmic space to the human mind, from the artistic use of science to the impact of technology and AI in the justice system, in medicine, and in dealing with COVID-19.
Light Science
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Author : Thomas Rossing
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1999-09-24
Light Science written by Thomas Rossing and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-24 with Science categories.
Intended for students in the visual arts and for others with an interest in art, but with no prior knowledge of physics, this book presents the science behind what and how we see. The approach emphasises phenomena rather than mathematical theories and the joy of discovery rather than the drudgery of derivations. The text includes numerous problems, and suggestions for simple experiments, and also considers such questions as why the sky is blue, how mirrors and prisms affect the colour of light, how compact disks work, and what visual illusions can tell us about the nature of perception. It goes on to discuss such topics as the optics of the eye and camera, the different sources of light, photography and holography, colour in printing and painting, as well as computer imaging and processing.
The Art Of Science
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Author : Rossella Lupacchini
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-07-22
The Art Of Science written by Rossella Lupacchini and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-22 with Mathematics categories.
In addition to linear perspective, complex numbers and probability were notable discoveries of the Renaissance. While the power of perspective, which transformed Renaissance art, was quickly recognized, the scientific establishment treated both complex numbers and probability with much suspicion. It was only in the twentieth century that quantum theory showed how probability might be molded from complex numbers and defined the notion of “complex probability amplitude”. From a theoretical point of view, however, the space opened to painting by linear perspective and that opened to science by complex numbers share significant characteristics. The Art of Science explores this shared field with the purpose of extending Leonardo’s vision of painting to issues of mathematics and encouraging the reader to see science as an art. The intention is to restore a visual dimension to mathematical sciences – an element dulled, if not obscured, by historians, philosophers, and scientists themselves.
The Art Of Teaching Physics
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Author : David M. Stewart Museum
language : en
Publisher: Les éditions du Septentrion
Release Date : 2002
The Art Of Teaching Physics written by David M. Stewart Museum and has been published by Les éditions du Septentrion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Physics categories.