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  • Optical Imaging and Metrology

    Advanced Technologies

    A comprehensive review of the state of the art and advances in the field, while also outlining the future potential and development trends of optical imaging and optical metrology, an area of fast growth with numerous applications in nanotechnology and nanophysics. Written by the world's leading experts in the field, it fills the gap in the current literature by bridging the fields of optical ... Read more

    $112.00 USD

  • Through Two Doors at Once

    The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality

    One of Smithsonian's Favorite Books of 2018One of Forbes's 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Physics and MathematicsOne of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018The intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself--and continues to almost 200 years later.</str... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory

    The Theoretical Minimum

    Series series The Theoretical Minimum
    The third volume in the bestselling physics series cracks open Einstein's special relativity and field theoryPhysicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's classical field theory. Using their typical brand of real math, enlightening drawings, and humor, Susskind and Friedman walk us through the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Wireless Tesla

    by Nikola Tesla ...
    Nikola Tesla dreamed of a wireless future. In this fully illustrated volume we have collected fifteen of his essays having to do with wireless. These include the "True Wireless," "Tesla's Wireless Light," "The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires," "The Future of the Wireless Art," "Nikola Tesla Sees A Wireless Vision," and many others. Nikola Tesla has been called the most important ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Research On "The Speed Of Light"

    Series series Scientific Studies
    The booklet presents the Ayaat from the Quran which hints to the existence of Galaxies, Timeframes and Universe or Universes for example Allah links the cosmic day and our ordinary sidereal one thousand year. This is a scientific precedence for the Qur'an and it wouldn't be a coincidence.In fact the Qur'an contain many hidden signs which were Unintelligible in the previous years but at the ... Read more

    Free

  • Let's Get Charged! (All About Electricity) : 5th Grade Science Series

    Fifth Grade Books Electricity for Kids

    Series series Children's Physics Books
    The purpose of this educational book is to teach your child the importance of electricity. However, unlike the school's official textbooks, this book contains just the right blend of text and images to facilitate self-paced learning. Use this book to complement classroom-based education. Make sure to grab your child a copy now! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Eye and Brain

    The Psychology of Seeing - Fifth Edition

    Series Book 38 - Princeton Science Library
    Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. Richard Gregory offers clear explanations of how we see brightness, movement, color, and objects, and he explores the phenomena of visual illusions to establish principles about how perception normally works and why it ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Tensor Network Contractions

    Methods and Applications to Quantum Many-Body Systems

    Series Book 964 - Lecture Notes in Physics
    Tensor network is a fundamental mathematical tool with a huge range of applications in physics, such as condensed matter physics, statistic physics, high energy physics, and quantum information sciences. This open access book aims to explain the tensor network contraction approaches in a systematic way, from the basic definitions to the important applications. This book is also useful to those who ... Read more

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  • Magnetism and Accelerator-Based Light Sources

    Proceedings of the 7th International School ‘‘Synchrotron Radiation and Magnetism’’, Mittelwihr (France), 2018

    Series Book 262 - Springer Proceedings in Physics
    This open access book collects the contributions of the seventh school on Magnetism and Synchrotron Radiation held in Mittelwihr, France, from 7 to 12 October 2018. It starts with an introduction to the physics of modern X-ray sources followed by a general overview of magnetism. Next, light / matter interaction in the X-ray range is covered with emphasis on different types of angular dependence of ... Read more

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  • Charged Particle Optics Theory

    An Introduction

    Charged Particle Optics Theory: An Introduction identifies the most important concepts of charged particle optics theory, and derives each mathematically from the first principles of physics. Assuming an advanced undergraduate-level understanding of calculus, this book follows a logical progression, with each concept building upon the preceding one. Beginning witha non-mathematical survey of the ... Read more

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  • The Wireless Tesla

    by Nikola Tesla ...
    Nikola Tesla dreamed of a wireless future. In this fully illustrated volume we have collected fifteen of his essays having to do with wireless. These include the "True Wireless," "Tesla's Wireless Light," "The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires," "The Future of the Wireless Art," "Nikola Tesla Sees A Wireless Vision," and many others. Nikola Tesla has been called the most important ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Zoom

    From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees: How Everything Moves

    by Bob Berman ...
    From the speed of light to moving mountains -- and everything in between -- Zoom explores how the universe and its objects move.If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Zapped

    From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light

    by Bob Berman ...
    How much do you know about the radiation all around you?Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see, hear, smell or feel it, but there is never a single second when it is not flying through your body. Too much of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Light is the Bridge between God, Relativity and Quantum Physics

    The Power of Light, #7

    by Wim Vegt ...
    Series Book 7 - The Power of Light
    The presented theory in this book has been grounded on a fundamental mathematical mistake in the famous George Maxwell's Classical Electromagnetic Field Theory with an Impact on General Relativity, Quantum Physics and the boundaries of our Universe.In this new theory the old concept in Quantum Physics of a mystic relationship between particles, waves and mass will be replaced by a New Unification ... Read more

    $2.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children of Light

    We associate light with the radiant beams that make the world visible to us. But the visible spectrum is only a tiny percentage of an electromagnetic spectrum that extends unimaginably far in both directions. And, as biologist Michael Denton carefully documents, that tiny band of visual light is crucial to life on Earth.In Children of Light, Denton elucidates the miraculous convergence of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Element in the Room

    Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face

    'Made me go Hydrogen Argon, Hydrogen Argon, Hydrogen Argon.' Rufus Hound***As featured in Best stocking-filler books of 2017 - The Guardian'Witty and clever writing, every topic is engaging, fun and in some cases laugh-out-loud funny...there are too many highlights to mention' - How it Works***Why is it impossible to spin your right foot clockwise while you draw a 6 with your right hand?Can you ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Seeing the Light

    Optics in Nature, Photography, Color, Vision, and Holography (Updated Edition)

    The clearest and most complete non-mathematical study of light available—with updated material and a new chapter on digital photography.Finally, a book on the physics of light that doesn’t require advanced mathematics to understand. Seeing the Light is the most accessible and comprehensive study of optics and light on the market. With a focus on conceptual study, Seeing the Light leaves the heavy ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences

    Fifty Years of IAMG

    This Open Access handbook published at the IAMG's 50th anniversary, presents a compilation of invited path-breaking research contributions by award-winning geoscientists who have been instrumental in shaping the IAMG. It contains 45 chapters that are categorized broadly into five parts (i) theory, (ii) general applications, (iii) exploration and resource estimation, (iv) reviews, and (v) ... Read more

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  • Five Photons

    Remarkable Journeys of Light Across Space and Time

    by James Geach ...
    Have you ever wondered what is the most distant source of light we can see, or how a star shines? Did you know that black holes can blaze like cosmic beacons across intergalactic space, and that ancient radio waves might herald the ignition of the very first stars? Have you ever thought about what light really is? Five Photons explains what we know about the universe through five different ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Lighting Engineering from the Quran

    Series series Scientific Studies
    This booklet deals with the development of light technology from the invention of lamps to laser and beyond.This parable revealed to prophet Mohammed on the 7th century mentions the invention of advanced type of lamps which was in advance to science of that period to be discovered later on 1780 by Aimé Argand, a Swiss physicist and chemist who greatly improved oil lamp efficiency and performance ... Read more

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  • I Can See Planets and Stars from My Room! How The Telescope Works - Physics Book 4th Grade | Children's Physics Books

    How does the telescope allow you to see what outer space looks like? Give your child the tool to know the answer to this question. Give him/her a copy of this physics book for fourth graders. Making physics fun and easy to read could be the secret to encouraging a child to gain more knowledge on the subject. Make this book your child’s first step to further learning. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Light

    A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age

    by Bruce Watson ...
    Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine.Battling darkness and despair, Gothic architects crafted radiant cathedrals while Dante dreamed a "heaven of pure light." ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Machine Vision Algorithms and Applications

    The second edition of this successful machine vision textbook is completely updated, revised and expanded by 35% to reflect the developments of recent years in the fields of image acquisition, machine vision algorithms and applications. The new content includes, but is not limited to, a discussion of new camera and image acquisition interfaces, 3D sensors and technologies, 3D reconstruction, 3D ... Read more

    $71.00 USD

  • Opticks

    My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.DEFIN. I.By the Rays of Light I understand its least Parts, and those as well Successive in the same Lines, as Contemporary in several Lines. For it is manifest that Light consists of Parts, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus