| And Yet It Moves Contributor(s): Silverman, Mark P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521446317 ISBN-13: 9780521446310 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $54.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - General |
| Dewey: 530 |
| LCCN: 92038729 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.97" W x 8.94" (0.97 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in 1993, this book of essays is a largely nonmathematical account of some of the strange behaviour, both classical and quantum, exhibited by moving particles, fluids and waves. Drawn from the author's researches in quantum mechanics, atomic and nuclear physics, electromagnetism and optics, gravity, thermodynamics, and the physics of fluids, the essays describe different physical systems whose behaviour provokes surprise and challenges the imagination. There are strange processes for which no visualisable mechanism can be given; processes that seem to violate fundamental physical laws, but which in reality do not; processes that are superficially well understood, yet turn out to be subtly devious. The essays address questions or controversies from whose resolution emerge lessons of general significance regarding the mystery and fascination of motion. Anyone with a basic physics background or with an interest in the fundamental questions of physics will find this book of use. |