Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry and Space-Time - Softcover

Feynman, Richard P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201328429 ISBN 13: 9780201328424

Verlag: Perseus Books, 1998

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xxv 150p paperback with pictorial red cover, pages clean and unmarked with diagrams and photographs throughout, as new

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Reseña del editor

No single breakthrough in twentieth-century physics (with the possible exception of quantum mechanics) changed our view of the world more than that of Einstein's discovery of relativity. The notions 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 so clearly and so entertainingly in the lectures chosen for this volume, these crazy notions are no mere dry principles of physics, but are 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 Richard Feynman.

Biografía del autor

Richard P. Feynman was raised in Far Rockaway, New York, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton. He held professorships at both Cornell and the California Institute of Technology. In 1965 he received the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. He died in 1988.

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• Verlag: Perseus Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0201328429
• ISBN 13: 9780201328424
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192