Description: Further DetailsTitle: Six Not-So-Easy PiecesCondition: NewEAN: 9780465025268ISBN: 9780465025268Publisher: Basic BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/22/2011Item Height: 209mmItem Length: 142mmItem Width: 14mmItem Weight: 166gAuthor: Matthew Sands, Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. LeightonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-TimeISBN-10: 0465025269Description: Learn about Einstein's theory of relativity from a physics Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) in six memorable lessonsIt was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. From 1961 to 1963, Feynman delivered a series of lectures at the California Institute of Technology that revolutionized the teaching of physics. In Six Not-So-Easy Pieces, taken from these famous Lectures on Physics, Feynman delves into one of the most revolutionary discoveries in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's theory of relativity. The idea that the flow of time is not a constant, that the mass of an object depends on its velocity, and that the speed of light is a constant no matter what the motion of the observer, at first seemed shocking to scientists and laymen alike. But as Feynman shows, these tricky ideas are not merely dry principles of physics, but things of beauty and elegance.No one - not even Einstein himself - explained these difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Feynman. Filled with wonderful examples and clever illustrations, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of physics by one of the most admired and accessible physicists of all time."There is no better explanation for the scientifically literate layman." -Washington Post Book WorldCountry/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
Title: Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
EAN: 9780465025268
ISBN: 9780465025268
Release Date: 03/22/2011
Release Year: 2011
Subtitle: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
ISBN-10: 0465025269
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Edition: 4
Book Title: Six Not-So-Easy Pieces : Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2011
Topic: Physics / General
Genre: Science
Item Weight: 6.4 Oz
Author: Matthew Sands, Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
