General Physics

In this lucid and entertaining book, Professor Taylor explores the origins of lecture demonstration and its development to the present day, emphasizing the underlying principles and the lessons to be learned. The book provides examples of different kinds of demonstrations past and present, discusses..

The Art and Science of Lecture Demonstration..

.The relationship between liquids and gases engaged the attention of a number of distinguished scientists in the mid 19th Century. In a definitive paper published in 1869, Thomas Andrews described experiments he performed on carbon dioxide and from which he concluded that a critical temperature exis..

Of the 90 chemical elements that occur in nature, only a dozen are found in easily measurable amounts in the human body. The rest are trace elements, present at such low concentrations that most of them were, until quite recently, beyond the reach of detection. The Crumbs of Creation reviews the abs..

The Electronics Companion..

This is the first book to provide a systematic and accessible computational geometric analysis of the musical rhythms of the world. It explains how the study of the mathematical properties of musical rhythm generates common mathematical problems that arise in a variety of seemingly disparate fields...

Presents examples of accidents in history and around the world, drawn from a wide range of contemporary sources. Illustrated with cartoons, this anthology addresses important issues affecting humans. It tells anecdotes from the gentleman struck, in death, by lightning to the ICI invention of WATER, ..

This book offers readers their first opportunity to learn about the pioneers of the Soviet nuclear industry, including the role of scientific supervisors at Russia's nuclear project and the statesmen who coordinated atomic industry in the former USSR. This detailed account discusses the activities o..

The Mathematics Companion..

The Mystery of the Quantum World, Second Edition introduces the philosophical issues raised by the success of the quantum theory and lucidly outlines the different points of view adopted by various physicists striving to understand the meaning underlying the theories used every day. Revised and expa..

Not since Newton’s apple has there been a physics phenomenon as deliciously appealing to the masses as Frank Close’s Cosmic Onion. Widely embraced by scientists and laypersons alike, the book quickly became an international bestseller, has been translated into seven languages, and propelled the auth..

The Origin and Evolution of the Solar System begins by describing historical (pre-1950) theories and illustrating why they became unacceptable. The main part of the book critically examines five extant theories, including the current paradigm, the solar nebula theory, to determine how well they fit ..