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  • How Amusement Parks Workby Lisa Greathouse

    Teacher Created Materials Publishing 2009; US$ 8.99

    This reader will be a hit with both thrill seekers and with those who prefer to stay safely on the ground. After an introduction to Newton’s three laws of motion, students learn the mechanics of various amusement park rides including roller coasters, Ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, and gravity rides. They learn how to measure motion, and how kinetic and potential energy apply to their favorite rides. more...

  • The Quest for Personal Best - Individual Sportsby Lisa Greathouse

    Teacher Created Materials Publishing 2009; US$ 8.99

    True or False: The only reason to play sports is to have fun. False! They also offer opportunities for students to learn and apply concepts and principles related to force and motion. Students learn how science plays a critical factor in any athlete’s quest to be the best at his or her sport. They read how mass is related to acceleration and velocity. Physics and aerodynamics affect many sports and help athletes strategize their next moves against their opponents. This reader covers a variety of interesting sports suitable for the casual to the most fanatic sporting enthusiast. more...

  • Partition Functions for Supersymmetric Black Holesby Jan Manschot

    Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 49.50

    This dissertation presents recent discoveries on partition functions for four-dimensional supersymmetric black holes. These partition functions are important tools to explain the entropy of black holes from a microscopic point of view within string theory and M-theory. The results are applied to two central research topics in modern theoretical physics, namely (1) the correspondence between the physics (including gravity) within an Anti-de Sitter space and conformal field theory, and (2) the relation between black holes and topological strings. more...

  • Radiative Processes in Astrophysicsby George B. Rybicki; Alan P. Lightman

    Wiley-VCH 2008; US$ 59.95

    Radiative Processes in Astrophysics: This clear, straightforward, and fundamental introduction is designed to present-from a physicist's point of view-radiation processes and their applications to astrophysical phenomena and space science. It covers such topics as radiative transfer theory, relativistic covariance and kinematics, bremsstrahlung radiation, synchrotron radiation, Compton scattering, some plasma effects, and radiative transitions in atoms. Discussion begins with first principles, physically motivating and deriving all results rather than merely presenting finished formulae. However, a reasonably good physics background (introductory quantum mechanics, intermediate electromagnetic theory, special relativity, and some statistical... more...

  • The Speed of Lightby David A. Grandy

    Indiana University Press 2009; US$ 16.95

    Light -- our experience of light, our measurement of light, and the notion that light speed is constant -- can be understood to mark our interface with the cosmos. David A. Grandy's book moves from the scientific to the existential, from Einstein to Merleau-Ponty, from light as a phenomenon to light as that which is constitutive of reality. To measure the speed of light is to measure something about the way we are measured or blended into the cosmos, and that universal blending predetermines our measurement of light speed in favor of a universal or constant value. It's quite a trip, one aimed at scientists who have pondered light... more...

  • Astrophysics in a Nutshellby Dan Maoz

    Princeton University Press 2007; US$ 75.00

    A concise but thorough introduction to the observational data and theoretical concepts underlying modern astronomy, Astrophysics in a Nutshell is designed for advanced undergraduate science majors taking a one-semester course. This well-balanced and up-to-date textbook covers the essentials of modern astrophysics--from stars to cosmology--emphasizing the common, familiar physical principles that govern astronomical phenomena, and the interplay between theory and observation. In addition to traditional topics such as stellar remnants, galaxies, and the interstellar medium, Astrophysics in a Nutshell introduces subjects at the forefront of modern research, including black holes, dark matter, gravitational lensing, and dark energy, all updated... more...

  • Cómo funcionan los parques de diversiones (How Amusement Parks Work)by Lisa Greathouse

    Shell Education 2010; US$ 8.99

    This book will be a hit with both thrill seekers and with those who prefer to stay safely on the ground. After an introduction to Newton’s three laws of motion, readers learn the mechanics of various amusement park rides including roller coasters, Ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, and gravity rides. They learn how to measure motion, and how kinetic and potential energy apply to their favorite rides. 32pp. more...

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