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Enjoy this Entertaining and Free Pdf Book on Physics, དངོས་ཁམས་རིག་པ་, the Science of Motion:
Explore the motion of stones, plants, animals, lightning, satellites, light and empty space itself! Be fascinated by molecular motors, black holes, the beauty of nature and the simplicity of how it works: Explore the principle of cosmic laziness – least action –, the maximum speed, the highest power, the largest distance, and gauge symmetry, the symmetry that explains electric motors, radioactivity and quarks!
A summary of the five volumes, and thus of all modern physics, དངོས་ཁམས་རིག་པ་, is possible in just 9 lines.
The free pdf volumes of the 2021 physics textbook edition – the paper volume are a pretty present by the way – tell about the race to make images floating in mid-air with lasers, tell about the sound of falling batteries, tell about how to measure images on the eye's retina in living humans, tell about the sounds deep inside the Earth, show the possibilities of very long baseline interferometry for testing general relativity, includes the new definition of the kilogram and the other SI units, lists the effects of weightlessness on cosmonauts, show how to multiply with fingers, explain how physics helps with basketball, and present many other stunning images, facts and stories about motion of things, shadows, light, stars, planets, black holes and quantum particles.
Find out what butterflies, fireworks and mobile phones have in common, how muscles work, how levitation is possible, how colours appear, why we can see the stars, and which problems in physics are still unsolved. Enjoy many wonderful puzzles about nature. Read about the great advances in our understanding of the processes that surround us. Learn how the story of the universe shapes our night sky, the Sun, our landscape, our bodies and all the atoms that make us up. Find interesting experiments to repeat. Explore the power of the concepts that are used in physics.
If you are between the age of 16 and 106, you will enjoy reading this physics book. These videos show you why. Whether you learn or study physics at a school, college or university, whether you are just curious about physics and want to learn about it by yourself, or whether you want new ideas for teaching physics, you will enjoy this free textbook. If you want more motivation read this page. If you want an overview of the wonderful stories and adventures that await you, read this section.
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The Motion Mountain Physics Textbook is written for school pupils, for students, for teachers and for anybody curious about nature: the text is full of telling anecdotes, captivating riddles, unusual tables, astonishing photographs and beautiful films. It has been downloaded over 500 000 times. It is a fun pdf book that expands your curiosity and your studies.
Fun and fascination differ. Numerous fun facts are found in the book, in order to purvey the fascination of physics. The book tries to make the reader discover that precise observation, description and thinking is worth it. Nature is beautiful and full of wonders and riddles. Precision is important in learning, research, teaching and business. Distinguishing truth, mistakes and lies, the possible and the impossible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, is useful in all aspects of life.