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  • Physics: Try This at Home

    Do it yourself physics for the fearful

    by Paul Rubin ...
    Physics is one of the most interesting and exciting subjects of study yet many people are scared of, and intimidated by, physics. It doesn't have to be this way! Wouldn't it be great to learn the most important ideas in physics by doing simple, fun activities that promote and reinforce your learning?We experience and use physics in virtually every activity in our lives. Why not take advantage of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Optical Devices in Ophthalmology and Optometry

    Technology, Design Principles and Clinical Applications

    Optical Devices in Ophthalmology and OptometryMedical technology is a fast growing field. Optical Devices in Ophthalmology and Optometry gives a comprehensive review of modern optical technologies in ophthalmology and optometry alongside their clinical deployment. It bridges the technology and clinical domains and will be suitable in both technical and clinical environments. The book introduces ... Read more

    $156.00 USD

  • The Optics of Life

    A Biologist's Guide to Light in Nature

    Optics—a field of physics focusing on the study of light—is also central to many areas of biology, including vision, ecology, botany, animal behavior, neurobiology, and molecular biology. The Optics of Life introduces the fundamentals of optics to biologists and nonphysicists, giving them the tools they need to successfully incorporate optical measurements and principles into their research. Sönke ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • 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

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  • Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning

    Principles and Processing, Second Edition

    Edited by Jie Shan, Charles K. Toth ...
    Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive discussion of topographic LiDAR principles, systems, data acquisition, and data processing techniques. This edition presents an introduction and summary of various LiDAR systems and their principles and addresses the operational principles of the different components and ranging methods of LiDAR systems. It discusses ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Seneca Effect

    Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid

    by Ugo Bardi ...
    Series series The Frontiers Collection
    The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the features of the phenomenon that we call "collapse," which is typically sudden and often unexpected, like the proverbial "house of cards." But why are such collapses so common, and what generates them? ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Handbook of Visual Optics, Volume Two

    Instrumentation and Vision Correction

    Edited by Pablo Artal ...
    Handbook of Visual Optics offers an authoritative overview of encyclopedic knowledge in the field of physiological optics. It builds from fundamental concepts to the science and technology of instruments and practical procedures of vision correction, integrating expert knowledge from physics, medicine, biology, psychology, and engineering. The chapters comprehensively cover all aspects of modern ... Read more

    $59.99 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

  • Fiber Optic Measurement Techniques

    Fiber Optic Measurement Techniques is an indispensable collection of key optical measurement techniques essential for developing and characterizing today’s photonic devices and fiber optic systems. The book gives comprehensive and systematic descriptions of various fiber optic measurement methods with the emphasis on the understanding of optoelectronic signal processing methodologies, helping the ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • From Sight to Light

    The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics

    by A. Mark Smith ...
    From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its fundamental properties and such physical behaviors as reflection, refraction, and diffraction. This dramatic shift—which A. Mark Smith characterizes ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Invisibility

    The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen

    A lively exploration of how invisibility has gone from science fiction to factIs it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research.In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Optics and Artificial Vision

    Series series IOP ebooks
    This book provides a concise introduction to computer vision for optical researchers and scientists. Building from the optical foundations of image processing and the science behind camera sensors, Optics and Artificial Vision equips the reader with the tools needed to understand and engage with digital image processing, the algorithms of optical flow and the algorithms of object detection, using ... Read more

    $114.99 USD

  • Before the Collapse

    A Guide to the Other Side of Growth

    by Ugo Bardi ...
    Nobody has to tell you that when things go bad, they go bad quickly and seemingly in bunches. Complicated structures like buildings or bridges are slow and laborious to build but, with a design flaw or enough explosive energy, take only seconds to collapse. This fate can befall a company, the stock market, or your house or town after a natural disaster, and the metaphor extends to economies, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • La luz revelada

    Del telescopio de Galileo a la extrañeza cuántica

    by Serge Haroche ...
    Translated by Marcos Pérez Sánchez ...
    Cómo la luz iluminó nuestra comprensión del universo, por el premio Nobel de Física Serge Haroche.¿Qué es la luz, ese fenómeno que ha iluminado y fascinado a la humanidad desde el principio de los tiempos?Serge Haroche traza el panorama de lo que sabemos hoy sobre ella, cómo lo aprendimos y hasta qué punto todo ello revolucionó nuestra vida.Al rastrear la historia de la ciencia de la luz desde ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Binoculars 2 books in 1 (Second Edition)

    This new October 2021 edition has been revised and extended. Two original titles, A Concise Guide to Collecting and Restoring Vintage Binoculars (Third Edition) and Porro Prism Binoculars Overhaul (Second Edition), now available together in one book.Book 1: A Concise Guide to Collecting and Restoring Vintage Binoculars (Third Edition) is a short introductory guide, suitable for anyone who would ... Read more

    $6.56 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

  • Light: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Light enables us to see the world around us. Our sense of sight provides us with direct information about space and time, the physical arrangement of the world, and how it changes. This almost universal shared sensation of vision has led to a fascination with the nature and properties of light across the ages. But the light we see is just a small part of the whole spectrum of electromagnetic ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • De kleur van de maan

    by Paola Bressan ...
    Waarom lijkt de maan geel, terwijl hij eigenlijk grijs is? Waarom beweegt de wereld niet als je je ogen beweegt? Waarom zijn honden niet geïnteresseerd in televisie? Over het algemeen wordt aangenomen dat de wereld eruitziet zoals wij hem zien, gewoon omdat dat zo ís. In feite is de werkelijkheid zoals wij die waarnemen een constructie van onze hersenen. Op boeiende en verrassende wijze onthult ... Read more

    $8.87 USD

  • Ottico di successo

    «In principio era l’età dell’oro: gli ottici erano sempre pieni di lavoro e non facevano in tempo ad esporre un paio di occhiali in vetrina che li avevano già venduti.»Poi è arrivata la crisi, la concorrenza delle grandi catene e del low cost e molti ottici, anche eccellenti, si sono trovati improvvisa-mente a fare i conti con grandi difficoltà.Eppure, a guardarsi intorno, si scoprono ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • LED Lighting

    A Primer to Lighting the Future

    by Sal Cangeloso ...
    We’re on the brink of a lighting revolution with light-emitting diodes—the tiny LEDs you’ve seen in electronic devices for years. With this practical guide, you’ll go behind the scenes to see how and why manufacturers are now designing LED devices to light everything from homes and offices to streets and warehouses.Author Sal Cangeloso shows you the working parts of a “simple” LED bulb and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Physique quantique

    Leçon inaugurale prononcée le jeudi 13 décembre 2001

    by Serge Haroche ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    De l’infiniment petit à l’infiniment grand, couvrant plus de soixante ordres de grandeur de dimension spatiale, la théorie quantique est invoquée, tant pour décrire les vibrations encore largement mystérieuses des cordes microscopiques qui pourraient être les constituants élémentaires de l’Univers, que pour rendre compte des fluctuations du rayonnement micro-onde qui nous parvient des confins du ... Read more

    $5.99 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

  • 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

  • Fisica: ottica

    In questo libro sono presentati i seguenti argomenti di fisica di base:ottica geometricaottica diffrattivacenni di ottica non lineare ... Read more

    $3.99 USD