Six easy pieces : essentials of physics, explained by its most brilliant teacher / Richard P. Feynma...
Six easy pieces : essentials of physics, explained by its most brilliant teacher / Richard P. Feynma...
Six easy pieces : essentials of physics, explained by its most brilliant teacher / Richard P. Feynman ; originally prepared for publication by Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands; new introduction by Paul Davies.
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Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1995.
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T0393688
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English
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xxix, 145 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction / Paul Davies -- 1. Atoms in Motion -- 2. Basic Physics -- 3. The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences -- 4. Conservation of Energy -- 5. The Theory of Gravitation -- 6. Quantum Behavior.
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Publisher
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1995.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c1995.
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Readers will remember how - using ice water and rubber - Feynman demonstrated with stunning simplicity to a nationally televised audience the physics of the 1986 Challenger disaster. It is precisely this ability - the clear and direct illustration of complex theories - that made Richard Feynman one of the most distinguished educators in the world....
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Six easy pieces : essentials of physics, explained by its most brilliant teacher / Richard P. Feynman ; originally prepared for publication by Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands; new introduction by Paul Davies.
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Helix books.
Includes index.
Transferred from N530/120.
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c1995.
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T0393688
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0201408252 (pbk.)
9780201409550 :
0201409550 :
9780201408256 (pbk.)
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530
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991023219329702626
