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Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War Format: Hardcover
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 34.43 $Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantum theory, and his work was described by his close friend Albert Einstein as "the basis of all twentieth-century physics." But Planck's story is not well known, especially in the United States. A German physicist working during the first half of the twentieth century, his library, personal journals, notebooks, and letters were all destroyed with his home in World War II. What remains, other than his contributions to science, are handwritten letters in German shorthand, and tributes from other scientists of the time. In Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War, Brandon R. Brown interweaves the voices and writings of Planck, his family, and his contemporaries--with many passages appearing in English for the first time--to create a portrait of a groundbreaking physicist working in the midst of war. Planck spent much of his adult life grappling with the identity crisis of being an influential German with ideas that ran counter to his government. During the later part of his life, he survived bombings and battlefields, surgeries and blood transfusions, all the while performing his influential work amidst a violent and crumbling Nazi bureaucracy. When his son was accused of treason, Planck tried to use his standing as a German "national treasure," and wrote directly to Hitler to spare his son's life. Brown tells the story of Planck's friendship with the far more outspoken Albert Einstein, and shows how his work fits within the explosion of technology and science that occurred during his life. This story of a brilliant man living in a dangerous time gives Max Planck his rightful place in the history of science, and it shows how war-torn Germany deeply impacted his life and work.
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Progress Lighting Planck 16-Watt Brushed Nickel Integrated LED Sconce
Vendor: Homedepot.com Price: 175.00 $Planck LED wall fixtures use indirect illumination to provide a dramatic architectural feature to any space. A brushed metal beam sports a sleek chrome accent to add visual interest to the minimalist form. Suitable for residential or commercial applications.
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Krakatau, Parkas, male, Black, Size: M Black Planck Jacket
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Krakatau, Parkas, male, Black, Size: L Black Planck Jacket
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Progress Lighting Planck LED 1-Light Brushed Nickel LED Outdoor Pendant Light
Vendor: Homedepot.com Price: 425.00 $A distinctive classic globe pendant is accented by a striking metal brushed nickel cap. The cap holds a beautiful opal glass shade ready to emit gentle illumination. This versatile pendant can be displayed as a single fixture or in groups of two or more to create a custom lighting design for your home.
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Krakatau, Parkas, male, Black, Size: S Black Planck Jacket
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Progress Lighting Planck LED 1-Light Brushed Nickel LED Pendant
Vendor: Homedepot.com Price: 425.00 $A distinctive classic globe pendant is accented by a striking metal polished chrome cap. The cap holds a beautiful opal glass shade ready to emit gentle illumination. This versatile pendant can be displayed as a single fixture or in groups of 2 or more to create a custom lighting design for your home.
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Michigan Synth Works MICHIGAN SYNTH WORKS PLANCKS II FRAMES S...
Vendor: Reverb.com Price: 210.00 $8hp Slider version of the popular Mutable Instruments Frames module. "The heart of Frames is a 4-channel digitally controlled analog VCA. Through ...
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The Fokker-Planck Equation: Methods of Solution and Applications (Springer Series in Synergetics, 18)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 58.35 $This is the first textbook to include the matrix continued-fraction method, which is very effective in dealing with simple Fokker-Planck equations having two variables. Other methods covered are the simulation method, the eigen-function expansion, numerical integration, and the variational method. Each solution is applied to the statistics of a simple laser model and to Brownian motion in potentials. The whole is rounded off with a supplement containing a short review of new material together with some recent references. This new study edition will prove to be very useful for graduate students in physics, chemical physics, and electrical engineering, as well as for research workers in these fields.
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Post-Planck Cosmology. Ecole de Physique des Houches. Session C, 8 July-2 August 2013
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 48.00 $This book gathers the lecture notes of the 100th Les Houches Summer School, which was held in July 2013. These lectures represent a comprehensive pedagogical survey of the frontier of theoretical and observational cosmology just after the release of the first cosmological results of the Planck mission. The Cosmic Microwave Background is discussed as a possible window on the still unknown laws of physics at very high energy and as a backlight for studying the late-time Universe. Other lectures highlight connections of fundamental physics with other areas of cosmology and astrophysics, the successes and fundamental puzzles of the inflationary paradigm of cosmic beginning, the themes of dark energy and dark matter, and the theoretical developments and observational probes that will shed light on these cosmic conundrums in the years to come.
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Max Planck: The Life and Legacy of the Influential German Physicist Who Pioneered Quantum Theory
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 31.33 $Unread book in perfect condition.
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Post-Planck Cosmology: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 100, July 2013
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 68.77 $This book gathers the lecture notes of the 100th Les Houches Summer School, which was held in July 2013. These lectures represent a comprehensive pedagogical survey of the frontier of theoretical and observational cosmology just after the release of the first cosmological results of the Planck mission. The Cosmic Microwave Background is discussed as a possible window on the still unknown laws of physics at very high energy and as a backlight for studying the late-time Universe. Other lectures highlight connections of fundamental physics with other areas of cosmology and astrophysics, the successes and fundamental puzzles of the inflationary paradigm of cosmic beginning, the themes of dark energy and dark matter, and the theoretical developments and observational probes that will shed light on these cosmic conundrums in the years to come.
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The Fokker-Planck Equation: Methods of Solution and Applications (Springer Series in Synergetics, 18)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 99.06 $This is the first textbook to include the matrix continued-fraction method, which is very effective in dealing with simple Fokker-Planck equations having two variables. Other methods covered are the simulation method, the eigen-function expansion, numerical integration, and the variational method. Each solution is applied to the statistics of a simple laser model and to Brownian motion in potentials. The whole is rounded off with a supplement containing a short review of new material together with some recent references. This new study edition will prove to be very useful for graduate students in physics, chemical physics, and electrical engineering, as well as for research workers in these fields.
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Michigan Synth Works MICHIGAN SYNTH WORKS PLANCKS II FRAMES B...
Vendor: Reverb.com Price: 210.00 $8hp Slider version of the popular Mutable Instruments Frames module. "The heart of Frames is a 4-channel digitally controlled analog VCA. Through ...
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Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale (Contemporary Theories in Quantum Gravity)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 20.46 $The greatest challenge in fundamental physics attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity in a theory of "quantum gravity." The project suggests a profound revision of the notions of space, time and matter. It has become a key topic of debate and collaboration between physicists and philosophers. This volume collects classic and original contributions from leading experts in both fields for a provocative discussion of the issues. It contains accessible introductions to the main and less-well-known known approaches to quantum gravity. It includes exciting topics such as the fate of spacetime in various theories, the so-called "problem of time" in canonical quantum gravity, black hole thermodynamics, and the relationship between the interpretation of quantum theory and quantum gravity. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the profound implications of trying to marry the two most important theories in physics.
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The Mathematical Universe : From Pythagoras to Planck
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 44.98 $Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty Format: Hardcover
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 23.88 $The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream. The discovery of the quantum―the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities―planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination. Quantum imagery and language now bombard us like an endless stream of photons. Phrases such as multiverses, quantum leaps, alternate universes, the uncertainty principle, and Schrödinger's cat get reinvented continually in cartoons and movies, coffee mugs and T-shirts, and fiction and philosophy, reinterpreted by each new generation of artists and writers.Is a "quantum leap" big or small? How uncertain is the uncertainty principle? Is this barrage of quantum vocabulary pretentious and wacky, or a fundamental shift in the way we think?All the above, say Robert P. Crease and Alfred Scharff Goldhaber in this pathbreaking book. The authors―one a philosopher, the other a physicist―draw on their training and six years of co-teaching to dramatize the quantum’s rocky path from scientific theory to public understanding. Together, they and their students explored missteps and mistranslations, jokes and gibberish, of public discussion about the quantum. Their book explores the quantum’s manifestations in everything from art and sculpture to the prose of John Updike and David Foster Wallace. The authors reveal the quantum’s implications for knowledge, metaphor, intellectual exchange, and the contemporary world. Understanding and appreciating quantum language and imagery, and recognizing its misuse, is part of what it means to be an educated person today.The result is a celebration of language at the interface of physics and culture, perfect for anyone drawn to the infinite variety of ideas. 61 illustrations, maps
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Gravitation: From the Hubble Length to the Planck Length
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 125.00 $Although gravity is the dominant force of nature at large distances (from intermediate scales to the Hubble length), it is the weakest of forces in particle physics, though it is believed to become important again at very short scales (the Planck length). The conditions created in particle accelerators are similar to those at the time of the early universe. While particle physics offers insight to early universe physics, there is a need to understand gravity at extremes of large and short distances to further understand cosmology and the development of the universe. Gravitation: From the Hubble Length to the Planck Length fulfills this need by providing an overview of relativistic astrophysics, early universe physics, cosmology, and their interface with particle physics.Written by international experts, this reference presents up-to-date information on classical relativity, astrophysics, and theoretical and experimental particle physics. The introduction sets the scene and provides a context for the remaining chapters. Chapters cover an extensive array of topics, from refined experimental techniques in gravitational physics to cosmology and the quantum frontier. The book concludes with a discussion of the connection among particles, fields, strings, and branes. This compilation shows how gravity plays a fundamental role in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology by exploring domains from the microscopic, such as black holes, to superclusters of galaxies that form the large-scale texture of the present-day cosmos. Moreover, with its theoretical and experimental focus on the foundations of gravity, Gravitation proves to be an invaluable resource for current and future research.
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Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 42.01 $In this moving and eloquent portrait, John Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German science. With great understanding, he shows how Max Planck suffered morally and intellectually as his lifelong habit of service to his country and to physics was confronted by the realities of World War I and the brutalities of the Third Reich.In an afterword written for this edition, Heilbron weighs the recurring questions among historians and scientists about the costs to others, and to Planck himself, of the painful choices he faced in attempting to build an “ark” to carry science and scientists through the storms of Nazism.
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Quantum Moment : How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 20.14 $"A very fun way to learn about where quantum physics comes from and the strange, even astonishing places it has gone." ―Peter Galison, Harvard University, author of Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s MapsFrom multiverses and quantum leaps to Schrödinger’s cat and time travel, quantum mechanics has irreversibly shaped the popular imagination. Entertainers and writers from Lady Gaga to David Foster Wallace take advantage of its associations and nuances. In The Quantum Moment, philosopher Robert P. Crease and physicist Alfred Scharff Goldhaber recount the fascinating story of how the quantum jumped from physics into popular culture, with brief explorations of the underlying math and physics concepts and descriptions of the fiery disputes among figures including Einstein, Schrödinger, and Niels Bohr. Understanding and appreciating quantum imagery, its uses and abuses, is part of what it means to be an educated person in the twenty-first century. The Quantum Moment serves as an indispensable guide. 61 illustrations, maps
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