Here is a thorough revision of a classic desktop reference, bringing readers 3,900 entries--200 new to this edition--that define the terms of this fast-changing field with clarity and without jargon. Daintith provides coverage of all areas of physics and many related fields, including astronomy, astrophysics, and physical chemistry. He offers expanded information on applied physics, statistical distributions, polymers, and nanoscience, and includes ten feature articles on such key topics as crystal defects, magnetic resonance imaging, and the solar system. Here, too, are detailed appendices on SI units and the electromagnetic spectrum, a timeline of key dates in physics, a list Nobel Prize winners, and much more. And, as with all Oxford subject dictionaries, this one features a companion web page, that is regularly updated, with a wealth of extra information and links to other sites. Featuring more than 120 diagrams, graphs, and tables, this is a superb resource for students, teachers, and professional physicists.

Illustrations portray theories, experiments, and instruments related to all areas of physics, including energy, machines, waves, electricity, magnetism, and nuclear reactions.

The editors of 'Encyclopedia of Physics', whose earlier edition a decade ago won international acclaim, now provide a fully revised, expanded and updated second editon of this comprehensive reference resource. In a single volume 500 experts offer an indispensable state-of-the-art account of physics and the physical world. They include fourteen Nobel laureates and numerous other scientific award winners.

Presents definitions of the major terminology of modern physics, along with concise explanations of the fundamental concepts and theories of the field.

From absolute zero to x-ray, this dictionary defines key terms in physics. Presented in an A-Z format, here is essential, readable, up-to-date information related to this important scientific field. Also included is an appendix of essential formulas.

Lists and explains terminology related to physics, providing synonyms, acronyms, and pronunciation for each entry, and covering such areas as nuclear and plasma physics, quantum mechanics, and thermodynamics. (view table of contents)

Maurycy Gottlieb was born in 1856 in the small city known in Polish as Drohobycz, then attached to the province of Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the course of his very short life (he died at age 23), Gottlieb painted dozens of extraordinary works that have since found homes in museums in eastern Europe. (where he has long been honored as a Polish artist) and in Israel, where, following a major exhibition in 1991 in Tel-Aviv, he achieved the status of a founding father of Jewish art. The subjects of his paintings range from self-portraits and portraits of family and friends to "orientalist" themes, historical topics, and biblical scenes, including two important representations of Jesus. Ezra Mendelsohn situates this impressive body of work in the context of contemporary European painting, and uses Gottlieb's work to illuminate the sociopolitical and cultural complexity of the multi-ethnic and multi-religious Austro-Hungarian Empire prior to World War I. Interpreting the paintings, and their reception in Gottlieb's day and beyond, Mendelsohn touches on a number of key issues in modern Jewish history, among them identity, assimilation, acculturation, nationalism, the relationship between Jewry and European culture, and relations between Jews and non-Jews, particularly between Poles and Jews. Mendelsohn notes that Gottlieb "was an ideal subject for a historian of modern Jewish Eastern Europe with an interest in the visual dimension of Jewish culture." Since the artist's death in 1879, Polish nationalists, Jewish integrationists, Jewish nationalists, and finally the Israeli Jewish establishment, have laid claims to his art. Yet Mendelsohn shows that the subjects Gottlieb chose to paint--particularly the historical subjects--demonstrate that Gottlieb was first and foremost an artist of Jewish univeralism.

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Product Description: The principal features of this minidictionary include: coverage of commonly encountered terms and concepts in physics, background information to the entries, line-drawings and cross references.