Search Results: PHYSICS from S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)

Old Grennwich, CT: Space-Time Studies). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks, a couple of medium sized chips and some generalized rubbing to the paper. This book contains a number of papers by Herbert E. Ives who did not believe that Einstein's Theory of Relativity was correct - he proceeded to perform experiments which would prove his hypothesis -- and in the process, actually proved (though he believed otherwise) that the "relativistic time dilation to the Doppler shift of light" Einstein theorized was indeed correct. (this experiment is known as the "Ives–Stilwell experiment"). This book includes letters to physicists, his own notes, experiments, etc. , from… Read More

New York, NY: Mcgraw Hill Book Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1964. Trade Edition. Hardcover. Graphs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. A previous owner has ink stamped his name (very small stamp) on the bottom front flap of the dust jacket and top edge of the front pastedown page. The dust jacket has a long semi-closed tear to the front panel, along with another smaller semi-closed tear. The spine ends and corners of the dust jacket have edge wear, rubbing and bumping. "In the field of heat transfer, in which in the twenties he gained renown through the statement of the well-known Dittus-Boelter equation, Dean Boelter's laboratory was extended to the groves of the citrus experiment station in Riverside. There the problem of orchard heating in the early thirties grew to such proportions that in 1944 he was given the… Read More

Paris, France: Gauthier-Villars Imprimeur-Editeur. Very Good-. 1948. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback with light cardstock covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have noticeable fading / toning. The spine has chips to both ends and some light nicks and chipping to the cover edges. The text pages are clean, but noticeably toned. "The gravitational force is a force that attracts any object with mass. Every object, including you, is pulling on every other object in the entire universe! This is called Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation. Admittedly, you don't have a very large mass and so, you're not pulling on those other objects much. And objects that are really far apart from each other don't pull on each other noticeably either. But the force is there and we can calculate it. While dealing with gravitational forces, we come across… Read More

Croton-on-Hudson, NY: General Electric. Very Good+. 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is an educational module prepared by the Manufacturing Education / Management Education Services of General Electric. The oversized paperback textbook is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a small edge tear to the top front spine joint of the book cover and a previous owner's inked name on the front cover at the bottom corner. The covers have some beginning toning / sunning, especially to the spine and spine joints. The text pages are clean and bright. Chapters include: Variation and its Causes, Measuring Variation, Samples and their Interpretation, Normal Distribution, Hypothesis Testing, Confidence Intervals, Correlation Analysis, Introduction to Probability, Geometric and Binomial Distributions, The Hypergeometric Probability Function and more. .

Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Laboratory of Electronics. Very Good+. 1966. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Graphs; This is a technical Report with cardstock covers and a glued binding. This report is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The report and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light fading / toning to the gray cardstock covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "With quantum noise in the laser we mean those properties of the laser output that are caused by the quantum nature of the electromagnetic field and of the material systems and reservoirs with which it interacts. It is shown that a fully quantum-mechanical treatment of the laser can be formulated in a noise-source formalism, for which the noise sources are operators." The author, Herman J. Pauwels graduated with a Masters Degree from MIT in 1964 and was continuing on at MIT in the Ph. D. Program - this report is based on a… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Laboratory of Electronics. Very Good. 1964. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Graphs; This is a technical report with cardstock covers and a side-stapled binding. This report is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have some light fading / toning to the spine and ground-in finger dirt. There is an ink stamp from the Industrial Liaison Office of M. I. T. On the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "The problem with which we shall be concerned is the noise performance of a multiterminal-pair amplifier used in conjunction with a multiterminal-pair signal source. We shall investigate the values of signal-to-noise ratio and exchangeable signal power that can be obtained at a single-output terminal pair by interconnecting such a source and amplifier." (from Wikipedia) The author, William D. Rummler has received at least one patent in the area of radio communications and… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light bumping to the spine ends. "Fred Alan Wolf (born December 3, 1934) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in quantum physics and the relationship between physics and consciousness. He is a former physics professor at San Diego State University, and has helped to popularize science on the Discovery Channel. He is the author of a number of physics-themed books including Taking the Quantum Leap (1981) , The Dreaming Universe (1994) , Mind into Matter (2000) , and Time Loops and Space Twists (2011). " (from Wikipedia) .

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Very Good+. 1989. 2nd Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book, with illustrated cardstock covers and a glued spine. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light toning and ground-in dirt to all edges of the text block. There is also a previous owner's embossed name stamp on the title page. "The notion that fundamental equations governing the motions of physical systems are invariant under the time reversal transformation (T) has been an important, but often subliminal, element in the development of theoretical all sclaes, from gases and condensed matter to subnuclear physics and the quantum theory of fields." (from Wikipedia) .

San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Press, Inc.. Very Good. 1969. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; IEEE catalog No. 69 C 22-ED. This book is in Very Good condition and was most likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is one bump to the bottom corners of the book cover and a small snag to the front spine joint. The covers have some lightly ground-in dirt in spots. The text pages are clean and bright. (sponsored by Group on Electron Devices of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. , American Vacuum Society, University of Maryland, National Bureau of Standards and with the support of National Science Foundation Office of Naval Research. This volume includes chapters on Electron-beam welding , Relativistic Electron beams; high-energy electrons, Ion implantion, semi-conductors and semiconductor lasers, laser excitation, electron microscope and electron optics, and biological and… Read More

New York: Macmillan. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1963. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. There is one semi-closed tear to the bottom front flap joint. "The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity. Special relativity applies to elementary particles and their interactions, describing all their physical phenomena except gravity. General relativity explains the law of gravitation and its relation to other forces of nature. It applies to the cosmological and astrophysical realm, including astronomy. " (from Wikipedia) .

New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Very Good+. 1992. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0195065611 . Graphs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. The first third of the book has some ghosts of notations carefully written by a previous owner (written in very neat pencil and mostly erased). "This book is based on courses taken by advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate studens in mathematics and physics at Michigan State University. The courses were intended to present an introduction to the expanse of modern mathematics and its application in Modern physics. The book gives an introductory perspective to young students intending to go into a field of pure mathematics, and who, with the usual pigeon-holed graduate curriculum, will not get an overall perspective for several years, much less any idea of application." (from… Read More

Washington D. C.: NASA. Near Fine. 1964. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Graphs; This book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some very beginning bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. "Roger Bourke spent the majority of his professional life at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory engaged in various aspects of planetary exploration. He participated in and later led mission planning activities for Mariner Mars 1971, Mariner Venus-Mercury 1973, early phases of Viking, Voyager and the series of Mars missions beginning in the 1990's. In the 1980's, he worked as the mission design and operations manager of the then-Mars Rover Sample Return pre-project and subsequently represented the robotic exploration element in various NASA Mars initiatives. Prior to his retirement from JPL in 2000, he was responsible for coordinating the international connections in the worldwide efforts to explore the Red… Read More

New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0393026590 . B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright, though the edges are starting to tone a bit. There is a previous owner's embossed name stamp on the front endpaper. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and… Read More