This book is for life-science majors who havent learned calculus or are learning it concurrently with physics.

New edition features improved typography, figures and tables, expanded indexes, and 885 new corrections.

This e-book version accurately reflects all aspects of the original print edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics -equations, symbols, and figures have been made scalable so they can be read on a small screen.

Argues that the discoveries of twentieth-century physics--relativity and the quantum theory--demand a radical reformulation of the fundamentals of reality and a way of thinking, that is closer to mysticism than materialism.

Chaisson addresses some of the most basic issues we can contemplate: the origin of matter and the origin of life, and the ways matter, life, and radiation interact and change with time.

Its aim is to convey to a mixed audience how the successful and well-established quantum theory of fields goes about describing nature. This book has deepened my understanding. I enjoyed it and I think others will too.

Explains the fundamentals of astronomy together with the hottest current topics in this field, such as exoplanets and gravitational waves.