Engineering Physics

You are holding something solid. A book. It has weight. Push it; it pushes back. Drop it on your foot and you will know what mass means before any physicist has finished explaining it. Now ask the question almost nobody asks. Where does that weight come from? Not the book. The matter the book is made of. The atoms. The particles inside the atoms. The little buzzing things inside those particles. Where does any of it get the property of being heavy, of being there, of refusing to vanish when you look away? The honest answer is that physics has three answers, and they do not match.

Whether you believe it or not, the quantum world is real! Quantum physics discovers the behavior of energy and matter at the nuclear, atomic, molecular, and even smaller levels. This book will make such a complicated subject simple to comprehend. It avoids the complicated math and jumps right into all the implications, thought experiments, paradoxes, and concepts that make quantum physics so intriguing to people out there.

Quantum theory is at the heart of modern physics, but how does it actually work? NASA scientist and communicator Sten Odenwald demystifies the subject and makes this crucial topic accessible to everyone. Featuring topics such as Schrodinger's cat, the wave-particle duality and the newly emerging theories of quantum gravity, as well as the personalities behind the science, such as Max Planck, Neils Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Richard Feynman and many more, Knowledge in a Nutshell: Quantum Physics provides an essential introduction to cutting edge science.

Comment refroidir des atomes grâce à des lasers pour mieux les observer ? C'est dans les années 1920 que l'hypothèse selon laquelle toute particule de matière est également une onde est vérifiée. Cette « dualité onde-corpuscule » est un des fondements de la physique quantique, et un de ses éléments les plus paradoxaux. Pour observer ces propriétés ondulatoires avec des atomes ou des molécules, il faut que leur mouvement soit très lent, et donc qu'ils soient très froids. C'est à cela que se consacre Jean Dalibard : refroidir des gaz d'atomes au plus près du zéro absolu, vers –270 °C.

Are you a machine-learning enthusiast looking for a practical day-to-day application? Or are you just trying to incorporate machine-learning software in your trading decisions? This audiobook is your answer.

Queste 100 citazioni mirano a fornire l'accesso a un'opera o a una vita eccezionale, attraverso una selezione dei pensieri più eclatanti, in un formato accessibile a tutti. Una citazione è più di un estratto di un'affermazione, può essere un colpo di mente, una sintesi di un pensiero complesso, una massima, un'apertura a una riflessione più profonda.

Washington, 24. Juni 1947: Ein Hitzeblitz am wolkenlosen Himmel über dem Mount Rainier verändert das Weltbild des Amateurpiloten Kenneth Arnold für immer. Neun scheibenförmige, gleißende Objekte jagen mit unfassbaren 2700 Stundenkilometern an ihm vorbei – wie Untertassen, die über das Wasser hüpfen. Es ist die Geburtsstunde eines Begriffs, der eine weltweite Manie auslösen sollte: die „fliegende Untertasse". In dieser Folge von Erzähl mir alles: Geschichte knöpfen sich die Hosts Jasmin Kröger und Robert Rauh die Area 51 vor.

The Quantum Rules applies the laws of physics to explain everything from relationships and human nature to the effects of globalization. It achieves the impossible task of making quantum physics deeply relevant to all listeners - even those with no interest in science. With a lively and engaging tone, author Kunal Das ponders the underlying truths and patterns in our shared and common life experiences, using insights derived from the fundamental laws of physics.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has emerged on Heisenberg’s role in the Nazi atomic bomb project. In Beyond Uncertainty, Cassidy interprets this and other previously unknown material within the context of his vast research and tackles the vexing questions of a scientist’s personal responsibility and guilt when serving an abhorrent military regime.

Time is one of the great mysteries of the universe. In this fascinating volume, NASA astronomer and educator Sten Odenwald brings to life the philosophical and scientific conundrums about time in simple and accessible language.

In this stunning new volume, Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental evidence for many of the ideas of modern theoretical physics: Super-symmetric particles, super strings, the multiverse, the holographic principle, or the anthropic cosmological principle. These theories are not only untrue; they are not even science. They are fairy-tale physics: Fantastical, bizarre and often outrageous, perhaps even confidence-trickery. This book provides a much-needed antidote.

The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe - from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars - constitute only 5 percent of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The rest is known as dark matter and dark energy, because their precise identities are unknown. The Cosmic Cocktail is the inside story of the epic quest to solve one of the most compelling enigmas of modern science - what is the universe made of? - told by one of today’s foremost pioneers in the study of dark matter.

Il dato è il petrolio del XXI secolo. Grandi compagnie come Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Ibm e via elencando, sono tra le società con il maggior valore di capitalizzazione al mondo e continuano a crescere. La data driven economy è una realtà che non riguarda solo le grandi compagnie citate, ma tutti i settori. La consapevolezza che il dato crea un vantaggio competitivo è una realtà per tutte le aziende. Una delle tecnologie che è importante conoscere per chi vuole capire il mondo dei Big Data è Apache Hadoop.

Questo audiolibro racconta la visione della natura dal punto di vista della scienza della complessità ed è un bello stimolo per vedere e vivere la natura in modo nuovo ed evolvere in e con essa. La natura scoperta dal pensiero della complessità è una natura aperta, dinamica, interdipendente. Noi siamo natura. È la natura che crea i nostri sogni. Senza la natura, i sogni non esistono.

Beyond dares to imagine a fantastic future for humans in space - and then reminds us that we're already there. Human exploration has been an unceasing engine of technological progress, from the first homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to a future in which mankind promises to settle another world. Beyond tells the epic story of humanity leaving home - and how humans will soon thrive in the vast universe beyond the Earth.

Have you ever known something was coming long before it happened, yet still felt unable to stop it? A relationship was clearly cooling. A health problem was building. A job was drifting toward trouble. A market was flashing warning signs. The direction was visible. The outcome felt closer every day. And yet your ability to change the path seemed weak, delayed, or strangely out of reach. Forecasting Without Power is a serious popular science book about that exact experience.

In 1965, the great American physicist Richard Feynman famously proclaimed, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics." Is there any wonder why? Particles that pop in and out of existence... Spooky action at a distance that travels faster than light... Infinite universes and branching realities? In this book, we will break through the confusion and reveal to you the most important ideas of Quantum Physics, told through the amazing true story of just 4 bizarre discoveries.

For most of human history, people have asked what the world is made of. Atoms, said the ancients. Particles and fields, said the moderns. Vibrating strings, said the late twentieth century. Each answer named some kind of substance — a stuff out of which everything is built. Each answer ran, in the end, into the same wall: a list of unsolved problems that could not be addressed without inventing more substances, more particles, more dimensions of stuff. The framework presented in this book takes a different route.

Квантовая механика — самый точный из известных человечеству способов описания мира на той фундаментальной глубине, которая определяет его структуру, но недоступна прямому наблюдению. Только благодаря квантовой природе удается существовать атомам, людям, звездам и почти всему остальному. На заре второго квантового столетия Алексей Семихатов предлагает последовательное изложение современного состояния квантовой механики.

After the Apollo program put 12 men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the space shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created.