Un geólogo en apuros

Traces the developing knowledge about germs from the first sighting of them under a primitive microscope to modern medicine's new methods of combating them.

Objeto del presente libro es la exposición de la teoría de los campos electromagnético y gravitatorio. De acuerdo con el plan general del Curso de Física teórica, no se tratan en este tomo las cuestiones de Electrodinámica de los medios continuos, limitándose a exponer la Electrodinámica microscópica, es decir, la Electrodinámica del vacío y de las cargas puntuales. Los dos últimos capítulos contienen la teoría de los campos gravitatorios, esto es, la teoría general de la relatividad. No se presupone en el lector un conocimiento previo del análisis tensorial, que se expone...

Presents a guided tour of the nine planets within the solar system. Also discusses the Milky Way galaxy, comets, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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...