The conceptual changes brought by modern physics are important, radical and fascinating,
yet they are only vaguely understood by people working outside the field. Exploring the four …

How does the physics we know today-a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably
linked to government and industry-link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece …

Putting physics into the historical context of the Industrial Revolution and the European
nation-state, Purrington traces the main figures, including Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin, and …

Most young people only study physics through practical applications, such as equations,
experiments and observations. This title, contrarily, brings physics to life and engages …

Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women
from the pantheon of physics. William H. Cropper vividly portrays the life and …

The New Physics is a swee** survey of developments in physics up to the present day. All
of the major topics at the frontiers of the subject have been covered in this collection of …

How does the physics we know today-a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably
linked to government and industry-link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece …

Quantum mechanics is one of the great success stories of modern physics, making sense of
the very small just as Einstein's theory of relativity made sense of the very large. But, for most …

The Big Bang, the birth of the universe, was a singular event. All of the matter of the universe
was concentrated at a single point, with temperatures so high that even the familiar protons …

Eschewing the usual mathematical explanations for physics phenomena, this approachable
reference explains complicated scientific concepts in plain English that everyone can …