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Dienstag, 26. Oktober 2010
The Physics of Immortality Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead
A theoretician and professor of mathematical physics shares his conclusions on the existence of God, the possession of free will, and the reality of eternal life from a scientific and logical perspective.
Sonntag, 24. Oktober 2010
Physics for Scientists And Engineers Vol- 1a + 1b + Student Questionnaire: Oscillations And Waves; Thermodynamics
Teacher Support material supports each set of books providing comprehensive support, for both the experienced and non-specialist teacher. A range of varied, challenging and tried and tested discussion exercises, puzzles, practicals, investigations and games are included. Pupils are encouraged to learn how topics interrelate with each other through the use of icons in the pupil books and references within the Teacher Support Files. Review and Test Yourself questions are included at the end of every chapter for flexible use.
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Physics for Scienstists and Engineers, Volumes 1A & 1B & Study Guide, Volume 1
Teacher Support material supports each set of books providing comprehensive support, for both the experienced and non-specialist teacher. A range of varied, challenging and tried and tested discussion exercises, puzzles, practicals, investigations and games are included. Pupils are encouraged to learn how topics interrelate with each other through the use of icons in the pupil books and references within the Teacher Support Files. Review and Test Yourself questions are included at the end of every chapter for flexible use.
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Physics Pack (Tipler, Stroud & E-Book)
Teacher Support material supports each set of books providing comprehensive support, for both the experienced and non-specialist teacher. A range of varied, challenging and tried and tested discussion exercises, puzzles, practicals, investigations and games are included. Pupils are encouraged to learn how topics interrelate with each other through the use of icons in the pupil books and references within the Teacher Support Files. Review and Test Yourself questions are included at the end of every chapter for flexible use.
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Samstag, 23. Oktober 2010
Physics for Scientists and Engineers Extended (Cloth) & Student Solution Manual, Volume 1
Teacher Support material supports each set of books providing comprehensive support, for both the experienced and non-specialist teacher. A range of varied, challenging and tried and tested discussion exercises, puzzles, practicals, investigations and games are included. Pupils are encouraged to learn how topics interrelate with each other through the use of icons in the pupil books and references within the Teacher Support Files. Review and Test Yourself questions are included at the end of every chapter for flexible use.
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Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010
Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2010
Modern Physics Student Solutions Manual
Modern Physics is a funny concept. What Physicists consider to be modern consists of discoveries that in some instances happened just over a century ago. In this view what makes these topics and discoveries modern is not their relative age, but rather the conceptual shift from the Physics that has dominated the scientific worldview since at least the time of Galileo. Even more importantly, this "old" scientific worldview is based on "common sense" notions about the space, time and matter that everyone has taken for granted ever since people started to think about these concepts. In that regard the implications of modern physics go far beyond anything that had been discovered up to that point, and take a long time to wrap our minds around. Because the modern physics is has such a deep and revolutionizing impact on the way that we think about the world, and because it is comprised of the scientific discoveries of the greatest minds that ever lived, it is illusory to expect that a single semester course would do justice to all of its complexity. This textbook, like most others for this subject, has to work with these daunting constraints. When that is taken into consideration, one can't but conclude that the textbook is on par with similar other ones in this category. It certainly has its shortcomings, but overall this is as good of a book as any to gain make first steps in direction of understanding the modern Physics.
Because of the way that the concepts form modern Physics run counter to our intuition, it takes a while to get used to them. Physics is not just an agglomeration of equations and mathematical formulas designed to be applied to some data. It is also a collection of stories and mental pictures that have been developed in order to make a better sense of the meaning of the world around us. These stories are especially useful and needed when we encounter new physical theories for the first time. From that point, this textbook is a wonderful resource. It provides many interesting and insightful stories that accompany our understanding of the fundamental physical phenomena.
What this book is not very good at is the derivation of equations and formulae. Oftentimes the reader is left in the dark, and additional work on one's own may be required. This is particularly frustrating when it comes to some more complicated equations or results, like the "derivation" of Lorentz transformations or the Rutherford scattering formula. Granted, most of these derivations are better handled in an advanced Physics course where they can be given more careful treatment, but nonetheless one feels that they are not given as good of a treatment at this level as possible.
To conclude, this is a decent book on one of the most amazing topics in science. It is best to take it as an introduction to the field, rather than a comprehensive and exhaustive treatment. With those caveats, it is possible to gain a decent understanding of what the modern Physics is all about from this textbook.
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