And Yet It Moves: Strange Systems and Subtle Questions in Physics

Silverman, Mark P.

ISBN 10: 0521446317 / ISBN 13: 9780521446310

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993

About this Item

Wrappers. Maroon spine and covers are clean and bright. Book has a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the extreme tips of the two rear outside corners. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 266 pages. Illustrated throughout with diagrams and mathematical formulae. A tight, clean, attractive copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: And Yet It Moves: Strange Systems and Subtle Questions in Physics
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521446317
• ISBN 13: 9780521446310
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: NF
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science & Nature

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Synopsis

Originally published in 1993, this book of essays is a largely nonmathematical account of some of the strange behaviour, both classical and quantum, exhibited by moving particles, fluids and waves. Drawn from the author's researches in quantum mechanics, atomic and nuclear physics, electromagnetism and optics, gravity, thermodynamics, and the physics of fluids, the essays describe different physical systems whose behaviour provokes surprise and challenges the imagination. There are strange processes for which no visualisable mechanism can be given; processes that seem to violate fundamental physical laws, but which in reality do not; processes that are superficially well understood, yet turn out to be subtly devious. The essays address questions or controversies from whose resolution emerge lessons of general significance regarding the mystery and fascination of motion. Anyone with a basic physics background or with an interest in the fundamental questions of physics will find this book of use.

Book Description

Originally published in 1993, this book of essays is a largely nonmathematical account of some of the strange behaviour, both classical and quantum, exhibited by moving particles, fluids and waves. The essays address questions or controversies from whose resolution emerge lessons of general significance regarding the mystery and fascination of motion.