Physics Books

Our Atomic World - The Story of Atomic Energy

C. Jackson Craven

 Nuclear energy is playing a vital role in the life of every man, woman, and child in the United States today. In the years ahead it will affect increasingly all the peoples of the earth. The nam..

Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

William Whewell

Nature acts by general laws; that is, the occurrences of the world in which we find ourselves, result from causes which operate according to fixed and constant rules. The succession of days, and seaso..

Our Nuclear Future

Edward Teller

This book has been written for the layman who has no knowledge about atoms, bombs and radioactivity. He knows that the world is made of atoms, that bombs might destroy it and that radioactivity could ..

The Principle of Relativity

Albert Einstein

Michelson-Morley Experiment.—In 1881, Michelson and Morley performed their classical experiments which undermined the whole structure of the old ether theory and thus served to introduce the new theor..

The A B C of Relativity

Bertrand Russell

Everybody knows that Einstein has done something astonishing, but very few people know exactly what it is that he has done. The same sort of change was demanded by Copernicus, when he taught that the ..

Gilbert Weather Bureau (Meteorology) for Boys

A. C. Gilbert

A Weather Bureau station at your home will give you a source of pleasure, fun, and insight into a science that is intensely interesting, easy to understand, fascinating and worth while knowing. The im..