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Great Ideas in Physics Paperback - 2000 - 3rd Edition

by Alan P. Lightman


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Explains the physics behind each of the four ideas - the conservation of energy, the second law of thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics - and deftly untangles for lay readers such knotty concepts as entropy, the relativity of time, and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

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Robert Mayer (1814-1878), the son of the owner of an apothecary shop, was born in Heilbronn, Wurttemberg (now Baden Wurttemberg), Germany.

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  • Title Great Ideas in Physics
  • Author Alan P. Lightman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 3rd
  • Edition 3
  • Pages 300
  • Publisher McGraw-Hill, Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A.
  • Date June 26, 2000
  • ISBN 9780071357388

About the author

Alan Lightman, Ph.D., currently Senior Lecturer in Physics at M.I.T., received the Association of American Publishers Award for the best book in physical science for Origins. His writing appears in the "Atlantic," "Granta," "Harpers," "The New Yorker," "The New York Review of Books," and elsewhere. He is the author of "The New York Times" bestseller, "Einstein's Dreams" and "Good Benito."

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