Still more fun with physics - on 1000 free pages
From: Christoph Schiller (chri_schiller_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/15/04
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Date: 14 Jun 2004 23:03:51 -0700
The 16th edition of the free physics text is now available at
The new edition adds the way to measure the speed of light with a piece of
chocolate, the speed value of the fastest object thrown by hand,
impressions of Prof. Furukawa's feeling for snow, the story of negative
index of refraction, the way to prove that light is made of photons using
the naked human eye and a shutter (only), what Lavoisier managed to do
after (yes, after) his head was cut off, the way herring communicate under
water by farting, a figure of Kötter's magic numbers for swirled spheres,
an introduction to Lie groups, a full commented list of the chemical
elements, and hundreds of small improvements. (Look up these topics in the
index.)
The new edition also adds a new 8-page section on how to deduce lower and
upper limits of all physical quantities in nature - thus extending the
entropy bound of Bekenstein to all other observables. Among others, the
lowest lowest power, the lowest force, the highest acceleration and the
highest angular momentum are presented. (`Upper and lower limits to all
observables' - part of file http://www.motionmountain.net/C19-LIMI.pdf )
The text remains surprising and thought-provoking as ever, on each of its
over 1000 pages. For all fields of physics the newest research results and
the main open questions are presented. The text provides a structured and
entertaining walk through all of physics, from classical mechanics to
relativity, electrodynamics, thermodynamics, quantum theory, nuclear
physics and unification. There should not be any boring page. If you
disagree, please complain - I will improve the page.
Enjoy!
Christoph Schiller
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