01878nam a2200253 a 4500 TVCDKTCT12322 Thư viện trường Cao đẳng Kỹ thuật Cao Thắng 20100506000000 100506 Thư viện Trường CĐ Kỹ Thuật Cao Thắng RG_1 #1 eb0 i1 0471719897 vie 531.14 / GR100V-d Darling David Gravity's Arc: The Story of Gravity from Aristotle to Einstein and Beyond / Darling David Canada : John Wiley , 2006 288tr. ; 23cm From Publishers Weekly Darling, the author of The Universal Book of Astronomy and a host of other books and articles on space flight, mathematics and physics, provides a strikingly readable explanation for the complex phenomena at the cutting edge of contemporary physics. Beginning with the ancient Greeks' ruminations on the nature of the physical world and concluding with a forecast for where physics is headed, Darling uses a conversational tone and narrative storytelling to coax readers through the finer points of dark energy and dark matter, string theory, inflationary universes, black holes and wormholes. Unfortunately, the book's lack of illustrations hobbles the discussion of some topics, though readers with a cursory knowledge of high school physics should be able to navigate the sections on, say, Keplerian planetary orbits or ballistic trajectories. Darling's done an admirable job of making physics palatable to a general audience, though it seems incomplete without at least a few line drawings. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Gravitation - History General relativity (Physics) - History Physicists - Biography