“david goodstein”

With its easy-to-grasp explanations of the science behind every aspect of our most urgent environmental policy decisions. Out of Gas is a handbook for the future of civilization.... More

Overview covers thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; gases, solids, and liquids; perfect gases; electronics in metals; and the Bose condensation. Also: structure of a fluid, potential energy, interacting gases and liquids, Weiss molecular field theory, van der Waals equation, and other pertinen... More

On March 13, 1964, Feynman delivered a lecture to the Caltech freshman class, "The Motion of Planets Around the Sun"why the planets move elliptically instead of in perfect circles. For reasons unknown, most probably for his own amusement, he chose to make the argument using mathematics no more advan... More

In this breathtaking lecture, Richard Feynman, one of the century's greatest physicists, uses nothing more advanced than high-school geometry to explain why the planets orbit the sun elliptically rather than in perfect circles. Photos & diagrams.One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth centur... More

That there is danger of forgetting the importance of content in determining educational methods and results. It is obvious that the child is the central and important element in educational activity; but learning activities are concerned with facts and materials and situations. English plays a vital... More

In the classroom of today most learning takes place through oral communication. Books, maps, pictures, films serve as guides and supplementary material but most of the burden is still the teacher`s as many a raw throats at the end of a hard teaching day will satisfy. The present book equips english ... More