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The first 18 editions slipped by my notice--doeshttps://carnot.physics.buffalo.edu/mailman/listinfo/phys-l
anyone know anything
about this?
I hesitate to download it due to worries about
viruses, etc.
Tom Sandin
At 10:52 PM +0200 5/25/06, Christoph Schiller wrote:
After nine months, the new, nineteenth edition ofthe free Motion
Mountain physicsfrom mechanics to
text can now be downloaded at
http://motionmountain.net
Over 1300 pages lead through the whole of physics,
relativity, electrodynamics, thermodynamics,quantum theory, nuclear
physicsdating techniques,
and unification.
The nineteenth edition gives details on radiometric
explains how to destroy airplanes withthermometers, shows how to use
the samelight, presents a
idea to measure the speed of bullets and that of
classicalintroduces Tesla coils,
system that obeys the Schroedinger equation,
showspatent offices,
that space-time has different properties in certain
tells howpiece of metal, gives
to see effects from atoms using only a lamp and a
moreshows how to perform a
details on clouds and jets of astronomic size,
precision Michelson-Morley experiment, gives thelatest results on the
Pioneerthe chromatic lens
anomaly, introduces fusion reactors, demonstrates
errors ofabout the trefoil
the eye, and presents the simplest unsolved problem
knot.figures, more
The text also provides improved writing, more
curiosities, manyto the help of
additional solutions to the challenges, and, thanks
Martinthanks also to all those
Elsaesser, the first embedded animation. Many
readers who have suggested improvements andmaterial for the text. An
erratanow available.
page that allows direct feedback via the website is
Enjoy.
Christoph Schiller
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