Higher Physics

In Parallel Worlds, world-renowned physicist and best-selling author Michio Kaku - an author who "has a knack for bringing the most ethereal ideas down to earth" (Wall Street Journal) - takes listeners on a fascinating tour of cosmology, M-theory, and its implications for the fate of the universe.

One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton.

Since 2001, James Kakalios has taught "Everything I Needed to Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books", a hugely popular university course that generated coast-to-coast media attention for its unique method of explaining complex physics concepts through comics. With The Physics of Superheroes, named one of the best science books of 2005 by Discover, he introduced his colorful approach to an even wider audience. Now Kakalios presents a totally updated, expanded edition that features even more superheroes and findings from the cutting edge of science.

If the thought of having to take a physics course scares you, don’t let it. Not when you a have a tool like the Introductory Physics Workbook at your fingertips. This workbook features a thorough process for solving problems and an overview of each concept so that you fully grasp the how and why, and you don’t have to turn to the index for the answers. Each problem is immediately followed by the solution. Gain a general understanding of the major topics in physics. Work out problems step by step. Get complete explanations for every equation. The best way of learning physics is by doing ...

Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku offers the first book-length tour of the most exciting (and perhaps most bizarre) work in modern physics.

David Bodanis demystifies the world's most famous equation, explaining its science and bringing it to life. He makes clear the astonishing array of discoveries and consequences it made possible and its impact on our daily lives. At last, the masses can understand that Einstein did nothing less than open the door to the inner structure of the universe.

In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion. When we drive at highway speeds with the windows down, the wind beats against our faces. Yet our planet hurtles through the cosmos at 150 miles per second, and we feel nothing of it. How can our voyage be so tranquil when, as Einstein discovered, matter warps space, and space deflects matter? The answer, Strassler reveals, is that empty space is a sea, albeit a paradoxically strange one.

The spectacular culinary creations of modern cuisine are the stuff of countless articles and social media feeds. But to a scientist they are also perfect pedagogical explorations into the basic scientific principles of cooking. In Science and Cooking, Harvard professors Michael Brenner, Pia Sörensen, and David Weitz bring the classroom to your kitchen to teach the physics and chemistry underlying every recipe.

This book explains Particle Accelerators, or atom smashers, in very simple words to the layperson. There is NO mathematics, and no difficult to understand jargon. Just a simple introduction to the basic principles plus the history of evolution. You will simply LOVE this book, written by a specialist in high energy particle physics.

The Basics of Physics book covers everything from light and sound to nuclear science and geology. Physics have several branches including optical science, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism and a unique field fluid mechanics. These branches of physics are broad and complex, studied by various different types of scientists and engineers. These fields help to describe how object and energy move around the world through our most important senses. This Basics of Physics book describing the scientific study of matter and energy and covers various key concepts of science and ...

Turn Your AP Calculus Struggles Into a Score of 5 – Master the Math, Own the Exam, and Shine! Do you feel like AP Calculus is an impossible challenge, no matter how hard you try? Are you ready to transform confusion into clarity and finally feel in control of your success? Preparing for the AP Calculus AB/BC exam can feel like climbing a steep mountain. The fear of failure or the overwhelming amount of material might leave you feeling frustrated and unsure of where to start. Balancing school, life, and studying can make it even harder to stay on track. We understand how challenging this ...

Rules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in two places at once. And that particle is also a wave; everything in the quantum world can described in terms of waves - or entirely in terms of particles. These interpretations were all established by the end of the 1920s, by Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and others. But no one has yet come up with a common sense explanation of what is going on.

(Quantum Gods brings together the complete “Team Quantum” trilogy in one easy-to-read volume.) Mira Verborgen wanted one thing in life: to finish her PhD in physics and maybe finally get noticed by her hot lab partner. What she got instead was a one-way trip to superhero status. During a catastrophic accident at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, Mira’s body is atomically scrambled and reassembled. Giancarlo, the devastatingly brilliant (and inconveniently taken) research partner she’s been crushing on, is stuck in the same quantum nightmare. Together they’re being hunted across ...

Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory. Written in 1916, it introduced the lay audience to the remarkable perspective which had overturned theoretical physics. Einstein's genius was to express this perspective in understandable terms.

Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists and her own work as an award-winning science writer, Natalie Angier does the impossible: she makes science fascinating and seriously fun, even for those of us who, in Angier's words, "still can't tell the difference between a proton, a photon, and a moron".

They survived the accident that made them superhuman. Now they’re racing to stop the one that will end the world. Mira Verborgen and Giancarlo Bianchi never asked to become living physics anomalies—able to shapeshift, heal instantly, and defy the laws of matter. But the same catastrophic experiment that gave them their powers also turned them into ticking time bombs. With just weeks before they detonate like nuclear weapons, they’re desperate to find a cure. The only chance? Repeating the experiment in a working particle collider. But their old enemy Dr. Orlov—insane, equally ...

He loved her. Then lost her. Now time rewrites the story. Shockwave—AI with a rubber soul. Reality under siege. Can love survive the quantum storm? A Science Fiction epic story about how little shockwaves from outer space impact our lives every day and how the biggest shockwave of all time may be just around the corner. Watch the News at 11. The story begins nearly three hundred years into the future where humans have solved most of our problems except for one of the biggest ones – whether or not God exists and why we should care to know the definitive and final answer. The answer to ...

Not as strange as Dirac, perhaps, but this life in theoretical physics is a bit outré.

The world of quantum physics is generally thought of as hopelessly esoteric. But, believe it or not, even the most mundane of everyday activities is profoundly influenced by the abstract and exotic world of the quantum. In Breakfast with Einstein, Chad Orzel illuminates the strange phenomena lurking just beneath the surface of our ordinary lives by digging into the surprisingly complicated physics involved in his (and anyone's) morning routine.

Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing—no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space—could we create a universe using only math? Irreverent and boundlessly creative, The Big Bang of Numbers invites us to try.