Malcolm Longair Orden de los libros (cronológico)

In this original and integrated approach to theoretical reasoning in physics, Malcolm Longair illuminates the subject from the perspective of real physics as practised by research scientists. Concentrating on the basic insights, attitudes and techniques that are the tools of the modern physicist, this approach conveys the intellectual excitement and beauty of the subject. Through a series of seven case studies, an undergraduate course in classical physics and the discovery of quanta are reviewed from the point of the view of how the great discoveries and changes of perspective came about. This approach illuminates the intellectual struggles needed to attain understanding of some of the most difficult concepts in physics. Longair's highly acclaimed text has been fully revised and includes new studies on the physics of fluids, Maxwell's great paper on equations for the electromagnetic field and problems of contemporary cosmology and the very early universe.

In this book, Roger Penrose presents a masterly summary of those areas of physics in which he feels there are major unsolved problems. These ideas are then challenged by three distinguished experts from different backgrounds - Abner Shimony and Nancy Cartwright as Philosophers of science and Stephen Hawking as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Finally, Roger Penrose responds to their thought-provoking criticisms. This paperback edition has been updated to include a striking and easily accessible example of Gödel's theorem, and a ground-breaking proposal for a physical experiment designed to test some of Penrose's most novel ideas about quantum mechanics. Penrose's enthusiasm, insight and good humour shine through this accessible, illuminating, and brilliant account of 21st-century theoretical physics.

Written by a well-known astrophysicist, who is also a superbly talented writer, this work deals with the matter and radiation content of the universe, the formation of galaxies, and provides a comprehensive introduction into relativistic astrophysics as needed for the clarification of cosmological ideas.

„Das erklärte Universum“ ist eine anschauliche, laiengerechte und begeisternde Einführung in die heutigen Kenntnisse der Astronomie und Kosmologie. Mit neuesten Farbbildern des leistungsfähigsten Teleskops der Welt bietet das Buch einen farbenprächtigen Blick auf unser Universum. Malcolm Longair nimmt uns mit auf eine atemberaubende Reise hin zu Entdeckungen, die Forscher über die Geburt der Sterne, auf der Jagd nach schwarzen Löchern und dunkler Masse, bei Beobachtungen mit Gravitationslinsen und neuesten Tests im Zusammenhang mit dem Urknall gemacht haben. Der Leser lernt die wesentlichen Fragen, die sich die zukünftige Weltraumforschung stellen und die sie beantworten muß, verstehen.