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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...

El libro de Julieta Fierro y Miguel Angel Herrera considera los aspectos generales del funcionamiento del Sistema Solar, asi como la descripcion del Sol como el motor que genera el orden planetario.

El libro presenta los aspectos referidos a la dinámica de cambio que ha impuesto la naturaleza sobre las condiciones macro-ecológicas de los Andes desde la era arcaica y formativa de las culturas agrarias andinas peruanas que ocuparon el territorio peruano. Principalmente se ocupa de las modificaciones en las condiciones geo-hidrográficas y de clima-vegetación que se han producido, relacionadas a los periodos de cambio climático universales repercutiendo en el paisaje y el Hombre en las zonas andinas peruanas. Una visión histórica acerca del desarrollo de las poblaciones y culturas...

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...