Richard P. Feynman: Six Not-so-easy Pieces, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Six Not-so-easy Pieces
- Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
- Publisher:
- Hachette Book Group USA, 03/2011
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780465025268
- Item number:
- 8948607
- other:
- illustrations
- Weight:
- 163 g
- Format:
- 220 x 136 mm
- Thickness:
- 17 mm
- Release date:
- 22.3.2011
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
Learn about Einstein's theory of relativity from a physics Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) in six memorable lessons
It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. From 1961 to 1963, Feynman delivered a series of lectures at the California Institute of Technology that revolutionized the teaching of physics. In Six Not-So-Easy Pieces , taken from these famous Lectures on Physics , Feynman delves into one of the most revolutionary discoveries in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's theory of relativity. The idea that the flow of time is not a constant, that the mass of an object depends on its velocity, and that the speed of light is a constant no matter what the motion of the observer, at first seemed shocking to scientists and laymen alike. But as Feynman shows, these tricky ideas are not merely dry principles of physics, but things of beauty and elegance.
No one --- not even Einstein himself --- explained these difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Feynman. Filled with wonderful examples and clever illustrations, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of physics by one of the most admired and accessible physicists of all time.
"There is no better explanation for the scientifically literate layman." --Washington Post Book World
Biography (Richard P. Feynman)
Richard P. Feynman, geboren 1918 in New York, gestorben 1988 in Los Angeles, Studium der Physik am Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ab 1942 Mitarbeiter am Manhattan Projekt in Los Alamos, 1945 bis 1950 Professor für Theoretische Physik an der Cornell University/Ithaca, seit 1950 am California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. 1965 Nobelpreis für Physik.Biography (Robert B. Leighton)
Robert B. Leighton (1919-1997) forschte und lehrte am California Institute of Technology, USA ("Caltech"). Er war Mitglied der "National Academy of Science" (NAS) und gewann 1988 die James-Craig-Watson-Medaille. Leighton leitete die Entwicklung der Mars-Sonden Mariner 4, Mariner 6 und Mariner 7 und entwickelte zahlreiche leistungsstarke Teleskope, die in u.a. in den berühmten Observatorien Mauna Kea (Hawaii), Mount Wilson und Owens Valley (Kalifornien) Einsatz finden.Biography (Matthew Sands)
Prof. Dr. Matthew Sands forschte und lehrte bis zu seiner Emeritierung 1994 an der University of California Santa Cruz. 1998 bekam er von der American Physical Society (APS) den Wilson-Preis verliehen.
