PDF Books in Physics
Relativity - the Special and General Theory
by Albert EinsteinRelativity : the Special and General Theory is an attempt by Albert Einstein to give insight of his most complex theory, The theory of relativity to those who are not well versed with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. Einstein split up the book with three major chapters such as The special theory of relativity, which expla..
Metapsychical Phenomena
by James Clerk MaxwellMetapsychical Phenomena is written by the Scottish mathematical physicst James Clerk Maxwell. The excerpts of this book is well summarised by Charles Richet in his preface as " My advice to the reader may be summed up in a few words. He must take up this book without prejudice. He must fear neither that which is new, nor that which is unexpec..
The Mechanical Properties of Wood
by Samuel J. RecordThe Mechanical Properties of Wood is written for forestry students in an attempt to provide them the essential knowledge and technical properties. This book is written by the American Botanist Samuel J. Record, one of the prominent scholars in the study of wood, who has travelled across Americas and had an amazing collection of 41000 identifi..
The Machinery of the Universe - Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena
by Amos Emerson DolbearFor thirty years or more the expressions “Correlation of the Physical Forces” and “The Conservation of Energy” have been common, yet few persons have taken the necessary pains to think out clearly what mechanical changes take place when one form of energy is transformed into another.Since Tyndall gave us his book called Heat as a Mode of Motion nei..
Five of Maxwell's Papers
by James Clerk MaxwellThis eBook includes 5 papers or speeches by James Clerk Maxwell.The contents are: Foramen Centrale Theory of Compound Colours Poinsot's Theory Address to the Mathematical Introductory LectureWhen observing the spectrum formed by looking at a long ve rtical slit through a simple prism, I no..
Opticks
by Isaac NewtonPart of the ensuing Discourse about Light was written at the Desire of some Gentlemen of the Royal-Society, in the Year 1675, and then sent to their Secretary, and read at their Meetings, and the rest was added about twelve Years after to complete the Theory; except the third Book, and the last Proposition of the Second, which were since put togeth..
The New Physics and Its Evolution
by Lucien PoincaréAuthor's Preface: During the last ten years so many works have accumulated in the domain of Physics, and so many new theories have been propounded, that those who follow with interest the progress of science, and even some professed scholars, absorbed as they are in their own special studies, find themselves at sea in a confusion more apparent than..
Radio-Activity
by Ernest RutherfordIn this work, I have endeavoured to give a complete and connected account, from a physical standpoint, of the properties possessed by the naturally radio-active bodies. Although the subject is comparatively a new one, our knowledge of the properties of the radio-active substances has advanced with great rapidity, and there is now a very large amoun..