Feynman's bestselling introduction to the mind-blowing physics of QED--presented with humor, not mathematics Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, …
A richly illustrated undergraduate textbook on the physics and biology of light Students in the physical and life sciences, and in engineering, need to know about the physics and …
Discusses the colors of the natural world, the mechanism of color vision, uses of color in technology, and the psychological effects of color
Mark Silverman has seen light perform many wonders. From the marvel of seeing inside cloudy liquids as a result of his own cutting-edge research to reproducing and examining an …
This first-year, graduate-level text and reference book covers the fundamental concepts and twenty-first-century applications of six major areas of classical physics that every …
In this book, Carolyn A. MacDonald provides a comprehensive introduction to the physics of a wide range of x-ray applications, optics, and analysis tools. Theory is applied to …
A groundbreaking textbook on twenty-first-century waves of all sorts and their applicationsKip Thorne and Roger Blandford’s monumental Modern Classical Physics is now available in …
Visual ecology is the study of how animals use visual systems to meet their ecological needs, how these systems have evolved, and how they are specialized for particular visual …
Optics--a field of physics focusing on the study of light--is also central to many areas of biology, including vision, ecology, botany, animal behavior, neurobiology, and molecular …