Great Ideas in Physics by Alan Lightman

Great Ideas in Physics

Alan Lightman

300 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 o...

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