Physically Speaking

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Physically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Physics and Astronomy provides the largest published collection of quotations pertaining to physics and astronomy. Some quotes are profound, others are wise, some are witty but none are frivolous. Here you will find quotations from the most famous to the unknown. The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the perfect tool for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure, and you will soon enjoy discovering what others have said on topics ranging from anti-matter to x-rays. This book can be read for pleasure or used as a handy reference by students, scientific readers, and the more general reader who is interested in who has said what on physics and astronomy.

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ANTI-MATTER ASTRONOMER ASTRONOMY ATOMS BIG-BANG BLACK HOLES CALCULATION CAUSE AND EFFECT CHAOS COMETS CONSTELLATIONS COSMOLOGIST COSMOLOGY COSMOS CRYSTALS DATA DOPPLER E = MC2 ECLIPSE EINSTEIN, ALBERT ELECTRONS ENERGY ERROR ETHER EXPERIMENT FACT FISSION FORCE FUSION GALAXIES GEOMETRY GLUONS GOD GRAVITY HEAT HYPOTHESIS INFINITE KNOWLEDGE LAWS LIGHT LOCATION MAGNETIC MATHEMATICS MATTER METEORS MILKY WAY MODELS MONOPOLES MOTION NATURE NEUTRON NEUTRINO NEWTON, SIR ISAAC OBSERVATION OBSERVATORY OCCAM'S RAZOR OPTICS ORDER PARADOX PARTICLES PENDULUM PHOTON PHYSICIST PHYSICS PLANETS PRAYER PRINCIPLE PROBABILITY PROTONS PULSAR QUARK QUANTUM THEORY RADAR RADIATION RADIUM REALITY RED SHIFT RELATIVITY REST SIMULTANEITY SINGULARITY SOUND SOLAR SYSTEM SPACE SPACE-TIME SPECTRAL SEQUENCE SPECTROSCOPE STARS STATISTICS SUN SYMBOL SYMMETRY SYSTEMS TACHYONS TELESCOPE TEMPERATURE THEORY THERMODYNAMICS TIME TRUTH UNCERTAINTY UNIVERSEVACUUM VELOCITY VOID X-RAY BIBLIOGRAPHY PERMISSIONS SUBJECT INDEXAUTHOR INDEX

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• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780750304702
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 1.60 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 504