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Author: Mike Brewer
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Published: 2019-03-27
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781091807310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fun notebook/journal for any coffee and science lovers. Einstein's equation rewritten to speak to the coffee lover in you. This journal/notebook contains 120 lined pages. 6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm).
Author: Albert Einstein
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1989-08-01
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 0486261972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEinstein's image has become a virtual icon of modern science. An arresting photographic portrait of the physicist is featured on the cover of this pocket-sized notebook with 64 pages of ruled colored paper.
Author: Efstathios E. Stathis Michaelides
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-01-16
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 3642209505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlternative Energy Sources is designed to give the reader, a clear view of the role each form of alternative energy may play in supplying the energy needs of the human society in the near future (20-50 years). The two first chapters on "energy demand and supply" and "environmental effects," set the tone as to why alternative energy is essential for the future. The third chapter gives the laws of energy conversion processes, as well as the limitations of converting one energy form to another. The section on exergy gives a quantitative background on the capability/potential of each energy source to produce power. The fourth, fifth and sixth chapters are expositions of fission and fusion nuclear energy, the power plants that may produce power from these sources and the issues that will frame the public debate on nuclear energy. The following five chapters include descriptions of the most common renewable energy sources (wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, hydroelectric) some of the less common sources (e.g. tidal and wave energy). The emphasis of these chapters will be on the global potential of each source, the engineering/technical systems that are used in harnessing the potential of each source, the technological developments that will contribute to wider utilization of the sources and environmental effects associated with their wider use. The last three chapters are: "energy storage," which will become an important issue if renewable energy sources are used widely. The fourteen chapters in the book have been chosen so that one may fit a semester University course around this book. At the end of every chapter, there are 10-20 problems and 1-3 suggestions of semester projects that may be assigned to students for further research.
Author: J. Howard Milller
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2018-12-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780486828701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJ. Howard Miller's "Rosie the Riveter" World War II propaganda poster was originally intended to boost morale -- today, it stands as a powerful symbol of feminism. This pocket-sized notebook includes 64 blank pages.
Author: Gary Taubes
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2016-12-27
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0451493990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical society-wide, health-related problems. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar: its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse of high-fructose corn syrup. He explains what research has shown about our addiction to sweets. He clarifies the arguments against sugar, corrects misconceptions about the relationship between sugar and weight loss; and provides the perspective necessary to make informed decisions about sugar as individuals and as a society.
Author: Dr. Michael Guillen
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2012-06-05
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1401304915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Publishers Weekly best book of 1995! Dr. Michael Guillen, known to millions as the science editor of ABC's Good Morning America, tells the fascinating stories behind five mathematical equations. As a regular contributor to daytime's most popular morning news show and an instructor at Harvard University, Dr. Michael Guillen has earned the respect of millions as a clear and entertaining guide to the exhilarating world of science and mathematics. Now Dr. Guillen unravels the equations that have led to the inventions and events that characterize the modern world, one of which -- Albert Einstein's famous energy equation, E=mc2 -- enabled the creation of the nuclear bomb. Also revealed are the mathematical foundations for the moon landing, airplane travel, the electric generator -- and even life itself. Praised by Publishers Weekly as "a wholly accessible, beautifully written exploration of the potent mathematical imagination," and named a Best Nonfiction Book of 1995, the stories behind The Five Equations That Changed the World, as told by Dr. Guillen, are not only chronicles of science, but also gripping dramas of jealousy, fame, war, and discovery.
Author: Brian Greene
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 0307428532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes “an astonishing ride” through the universe (The New York Times) that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. From Newton’s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein’s fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics’ entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world.
Author: James Sethna
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2006-04-07
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0191566217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn each generation, scientists must redefine their fields: abstracting, simplifying and distilling the previous standard topics to make room for new advances and methods. Sethna's book takes this step for statistical mechanics - a field rooted in physics and chemistry whose ideas and methods are now central to information theory, complexity, and modern biology. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and early graduate students in all of these fields, Sethna limits his main presentation to the topics that future mathematicians and biologists, as well as physicists and chemists, will find fascinating and central to their work. The amazing breadth of the field is reflected in the author's large supply of carefully crafted exercises, each an introduction to a whole field of study: everything from chaos through information theory to life at the end of the universe.
Author: Charles Bazerman
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780299116941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe forms taken by scientific writing help to determine the very nature of science itself. In this closely reasoned study, Charles Bazerman views the changing forms of scientific writing as solutions to rhetorical problems faced by scientists arguing for their findings. Examining such works as the early Philosophical Transactions and Newton's optical writings as well as Physical Review, Bazerman views the changing forms of scientific writing as solutions to rhetorical problems faced by scientists. The rhetoric of science is, Bazerman demonstrates, an embedded part of scientific activity that interacts with other parts of scientific activity, including social structure and empirical experience. This book presents a comprehensive historical account of the rise and development of the genre, and views these forms in relation to empirical experience.
Author: Christopher Bjerknes
Publisher:
Published: 2020-12-21
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9781716308727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlbert Einstein had a terrible reputation as a career plagiarist. It was well known among his colleagues that he had plagiarized the special theory of relativity from Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Jules Henri Poincaré. Einstein desperately sought to distinguish the general theory of relativity as if it were his unique achievement. But his dreams were deflated when David Hilbert deduced and published the generally covariant field equations of the general theory of relativity before Einstein could copy them. In addition, Einstein was immediately accused of plagiarizing Paul Gerber's formula for the perihelion motion of the planet Mercury and Johann Georg von Soldner's prediction for the gravitational deflection of a ray of light grazing the limb of the Sun. Even Einstein's famous thought experiments were appropriated from his predecessors.
