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Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore -- there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson team up to explore everything we don't know about the universe, and while introducing the biggest mysteries in physics, they also helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know. And although the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense, Cham and Whiteson make a case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can, and they invite...

cu l es la naturaleza del fuego, del calor, de la energ a?, Para sta y otras preguntas, el cient fico busca respuestas. Sin embargo, los cient ficos tambi n se preocupan por transmitir sus descubrimientos. Este libro es producto del prop sito de extender la cultura cient fica a la sociedad, en este caso en cuanto al dominio de la energ a que ha logrado la humanidad: desde la conquista del fuego hasta el manejo de la energ a nuclear.

Este primer volumen comprende dos partes bien diferenciadas. La primera esta dedicada a los elementos de fisica de las radiaciones y la segunda a los metodos de deteccion y de dosimetria de las radiaciones. La obra, que se completa con un segundo volumen, esta dirigida tanto a profesionales como a estudiantes que deseen ampliar sus conocimientos en el campo de las radiaciones ionizantes, su utilizacion y sus riesgos

Physics I: The Gymnasium of the Mind provides undergraduate students with a valuable opportunity to acquire the knowledge and the abilities that are evaluated in the PISA project (Program for International Student Assessment) and will be indispensable in later professional and personal life. The objective of this book is to use carefully analyzed and selected phenomena and adequately designed didactic activities to enable students to become involved and discover that they can learn physics, and with the knowledge and abilities learned, allow them to grow intellectually, emotionally, and...