Physics Books

A Student’s Guide to Atomic Physics
by Mark Fox
Review
What Stars Are Made Of
by Donovan Moore
Review
Handbook of Lasers
by Marvin J. Weber
How to Die in Space
by Paul Sutter
The View from Space
by Richard B. Leshner, Thor Hogan
Review
Alien Oceans
by Kevin Hand
Review
Galileo: And the Science Deniers
by Mario Livio
Review
Rebel Star: Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun
by Colin Stuart
Review
The Dream Universe
by David Lindley
Review
The World According to Physics
by Jim Al-Khalili
Review
The Universe
by Lonely Planet
Review
Optical WDM Networks: From Static to Elastic Networks
by Devi Chadha
Review
Multiphoton Microscopy
by Espen Hartveit
Review
Physics and Psychics
by Richard Noakes
Review
The Contact Paradox
by Keith Cooper
Review
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World
by David Kaiser
Review
Until the End of Time
by Brian Greene
Review
Fundamentals of Quantum Entanglement
by F. J. Duarte
Review
Introduction to Optical Microscopy
by Jerome Mertz
Review
The New International System of Units (SI)
by Ernst O. Göbel and Uwe Siegner
Review
A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science
by Alexander Boxer
Review
Optical Inspection of Microsystems Second Edition
by Wolfgang Osten
Review
50 Things to See in the Sky
by Sarah Barker
Review
Wavefront Shaping for Biomedical Imaging
by Joel Kubby, Meng Cui, Sylvain Gigan
Review
Dark Skies
by Lonely Planet
Review
Holography: Principles and Applications
by Raymond K. Kostuk
Review
At the Edge of Time
by Dan Hooper
Review
How to Love the Universe
by Stefan Klein
Review
Planetarium: Welcome to the Museum
by Raman Prinja
Review
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
by David J. Griffiths and Darrell F. Schroeter
Review
Exoplanets: Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
by Donald Goldsmith
Review
Computer Holography
by Tomoyoshi Ito and Tomoyoshi Shimobaba
Review
Harold Edgerton: Seeing the Unseen
by Deborah Douglas, Gus Kayafas, Ron Kurtz
Review
Mass Vortex Theory
by S. Seaver
Review
Optical Effects in Solids
by David B. Tanner
Review
Thermodynamic Weirdness
by Don S. Lemons
Review
The Space Race: The Journey to the Moon and Beyond
by Sarah Cruddas
Review
Imaging Optics
by Joseph Braat and Peter Török
Review
Quantum Mechanics: A Simplified Approach
by Shabnam Siddiqui
Review
The Secret Lives of Planets: A User’s Guide to the Solar System
by Paul Murdin
Review
Graphene Photonics
by I-Tan Lin, Jia-Ming Liu
Review
More Things in the Heavens
by Michael Werner and Peter Eisenhardt
Review
The Reality Frame: Relativity and our place in the universe
by Brian Clegg
Review
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
by Sarah Parcak
Review
Einstein’s Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Marić
by Allen Esterson and David C. Cassidy
Review
The Crowd and the Cosmos
by Chris Lintott
Review
Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
by Ron Cowen
Review
Something Deeply Hidden
by Sean Carroll
Review
Zwicky: The Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe
by John Johnson Jr.
Review
The Number of the Heavens
by Tom Siegfried
Review
The Basis of Everything
by Andrew Ramsey
Review
The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
by Richard Panek
Review
Lightwave Communications
by George C. Papen and Richard E. Blahut
Review
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
by Charles Fishman
Review
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature’s Deepest Secrets
by Graham Farmelo
Review
Applied Nanophotonics
by Sergey V. Gaponenko and Hilmi Volkan Demir
Review
Vortex Laser Beams
by Alexey P. Porfirev, Victor V. Kotlyar
Review
Advantage Play: Technologies that Changed Sporting History
by Steve Haake
Review
No Shadow of a Doubt
by Daniel Kennefick
Review
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
by Mark Miodownik
Review
Lasers, Death Rays, and the Long, Strange Quest for the Ultimate Weapon
by Jeff Hecht
Review
Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe
by Bob Berman
Review
Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
by Lee Smolin
Review
Sun and Moon: A Story of Astronomy, Photography and Cartography
by Mark Holborn
Review
Principles of Solar Cells, LEDs and Related Devices: The Role of the PN Junction
by Adrian Kitai
Review
Chasing the Sun: The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds
by Linda Geddes
Review
Preparation, Characterization, Properties and Application of Nanofluid
by I. M. Mahbubul
Review
Apollo 11: The Inside Story
by David Whitehouse
Review
Quantum Nano-Photonics
by Baldassare Di Bartolo, Luciano Silvestri, Maura Cesaria, andJohn Collins
Review
Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science
by Robyn Arianrhod
Review
Tellurite Glass Smart Materials
by Raouf El-Mallawany
Review
Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon: The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
by Brian Clegg
Review
Universe Owners’ Workshop Manual: From 13.8 billion years ago to the infinite future – An insight into the study of the universe and our place in it
by David M Harland
Review
The Laser Inventor: Memoirs of Theodore H. Maiman
by Theodore H. Maiman
Review
Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World
by John Gribbin
Review
Shoot for the Moon
by Richard Wiseman
Review
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
by Karl Sigmund
Review
Introduction to Geometry and Topology
by Werner Ballmann and Walker Stern
Review
Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects
by Chad Orzel
Review
The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue
by William Dunham
Review
Einstein’s Monsters – The Life and Times of Black Holes
by Chris Impey
Review
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
by Paul Steinhardt
Review
When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11: Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal
by Philip Moriarty
Review
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
by Paul Davies
Review
Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
by Michael Wall
Review
Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable
by Seth Fletcher
Review
Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century
by Bruce Usher
Review
Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution-and Why America Might Miss It
by Susan Crawford
Review
Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics
by Jeffrey Bub, Tanya Bub
Review
Understanding Optics with Python
by Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, Hassen Ghalila, Ahmed Ammar, and L. Srinivasa Varadharajan
Review
Mission Moon 3-D: Reliving the Great Space Race (3d Stereoscopic Book)
by David J. Eicher and Brian May
Review
How to Speak Science: Gravity, relativity and other ideas that were crazy until proven brilliant
by Bruce Benamran
Review
How to Live in Space: Everything You Need to Know for the Not-So-Distant Future
by Colin Stuart
Review
Fundamentals of Optomechanics
by Daniel Vukobratovich and Paul Yoder
Review
Self-Organized Lightwave Networks: Self-Aligned Coupling Optical Waveguides
by Tetsuzo Yoshimura
Review
An Introduction to Clifford Algebras and Spinors
by Jayme Vaz Jr. and Roldão da Rocha Jr.
Review
The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future
by Roger D. Launius
Review
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking
by Stephen Hawking
Review
The Calculus Story: A Mathematical Adventure
by David Acheson
Review
Modeling Nanowire and Double-Gate Junctionless Field-Effect Transistors
by Farzan Jazaeri and Jean-Michel Sallese
Review
Engineering Optical Networks
by Sudhir Warier
Review
Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann’s Entropy
by Eric Johnson
Review
An Introduction to Quantum Transport in Semiconductors
by David K. Ferry
Review
Fiber-Optic Sensors for Biomedical Applications
by Daniele Tosi and Guido Perrone
Review
Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
by Natalie Starkey
Review
The Graphene Revolution: The weird science of the ultra-thin (Hot Science)
by Brian Clegg
Review
Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature
by Peter Atkins
Review
Optical MEMS, Nanophotonics, and Their Applications
by Guangya Zhou and Chengkuo Lee
Review
The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
by Charles S. Cockell
Review
The Consolations of Physics: Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy
by Tim Radford
Review
The Birth of Physics (Philosophy of Science)
by Michel Serres
Review
Applications for Modern RF Photonics
by Preetpaul Singh Devgan
Review
Through Two Doors at Once
by Anil Ananthaswamy
Review
Handbook of Optical Engineering, Second Edition, Two Volume Set (Optical Science and Engineering)
by Daniel Malacara-Hernández and Brian J. Thompson
Review
Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
by Adam Frank
Review
Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics
by Jon Butterworth
Review
Spinning Magnet, The The Force That Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It
by Alanna Mitchell
Review
Who Cares About Particle Physics?
by Pauline Gagnon
Review
Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices
by Zhigang Rick Li
Review
Quantum Sense and Nonsense
by Jean Bricmont
Review

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Kaon Decays Reevaluated
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Hybrid light–matter particles offer tantalising new way to control chemistry
Everything you need to know about signs of life discovered on Venus
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A New Cosmic Tension: The Universe Might Be Too Thin
First Photonic Quantum Computer on the Cloud
Quantum Simulations of Curved Space
Inverted buoyancy makes tiny boat appear to defy gravity
LIGO–Virgo spots its most massive black hole merger so far
Wool-like material remembers and transforms back into its old shape
Physicists Create City-Sized Ultrasecure Quantum Network
An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence
Tying knots in a molecular string
Molecule’s electronic structure is simulated on a quantum computer
Solar Closing in on “Practical” Hydrogen Production
Emrod Chases The Dream Of Utility-Scale Wireless Power Transmission
100 Million Zoom Sessions Over a Single Optical Fiber
Quantum error correction achieved using oscillator grid states
How special relativity can help AI predict the future
Protons could be lighter than we thought
European synchrotron reopens following €150m upgrade
The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes Into View
Spider silk: the future of antimicrobial materials
Shining new lights on photoacoustic imaging
Time-varying signals control sound waves in topological metamaterials
New mechanism could reduce plasma turbulence in stellarators
Energy-storing walls made from ordinary red bricks
This Twist on Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory
Levitating ring flame’s burning secrets revealed
First ‘open flavour’ tetraquark is spotted by LHCb at CERN
Quantum mechanics is immune to the butterfly effect
‘Quantum secret sharing’ scheme allows 10 parties to communicate securely
Electric shock turns fool’s gold magnetic
Silk scaffolds and magnetism to generate bone tissue and be able to use it in implants
Ceres: An Ocean World in the Asteroid Belt
Higgs Boson Gives Next-Generation Particle Its Heft
Solar flares are predicted by new model
Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang
Researchers form single molecule in an optical tweezer
3-D nanometer-thin membrane borrows from biology
An Alternative to Dark Matter Passes Critical Test
‘Quantum go machine’ plays ancient board game using entangled photons
How Physics Gifted Math With a New Geometry
Molecular ferroelectric is one cool crystal
Photonic tensor cores for machine learning
Mistaken identity? Researchers uncover true nature of monster black holes