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Subject(s)

Physics—Popular works [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Motion -- To be or not-to-be -- Atoms and the void -- Motion constrained -- How vs. why -- Enter Newton -- The laws of motion -- Action at a distance -- Matter and light -- Heat and the arrow of time -- Who's really moving and what's the correct time? -- Curved space : the new gravity -- What you see is what you get -- A footnote : quantum gravity -- Equations that go berserk -- The physicist's world.

ISBN

• 9781421400839 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1421400839 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781421400846 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1421400847 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010047477

OCLC

692084742

RCP

N - S