Gregersen, Erik

Presents the history of wheeled transportation, covering creation and development of early vehicles with wheels, automobiles, design, trucks and buses, motorcycles and bicycles, roads and highways, and more.

An overview of electricity and magnetism that discusses the foundations of electrochemistry and electrodynamics, electric current, electric properties of matter, repulsion, attraction, magnets, and other topics, and contains brief biographical profiles of related individuals.

Explains the scientific laws and concepts that govern sound and light, examines the ways in which advancements in the study of light and sound have affected communication, entertainment, and military, maritime, and architectural functions, and includes biographical sketches of scientists in both fields of physics.

An overview of the atom that provides information on the development of atomic theory, components, properties, isotopes, radioactivity, radiation and life, and nuclear fission and fusion, and contains brief biographical profiles of related individuals.

A guide to physics and matter that provides information on the different phases of matter, the properties of each, and profiles the physicists who have contributed in the area.

Explains physics concepts and theories, focusing on heat, force, and motion, and covering thermodynamics, the laws of force motion and particle motion, rigid bodies, solids, linear and angular momentum, liquids, gravity, and related topics, with detailed illustrations and biographies of key figures.

A guide to relativity and quantum mechanics that provides information on relativity and general relativity, the concepts and interpretation of quantum mechanics, and formulas and applications for each, and profiles physicists in this field.

A guide to particle physics that provides information on basic concepts, the development of modern particle theory, and particle accelerators, and profiles physicists studying and researching particle physics.

A discussion of the history of manned spaceflight, covering topics such as early rocket development, NASA and U.S. military space agencies, the race to the Moon, and the various stages of the space shuttle program and different types of space stations, with a list of American astronauts, Soviet and Russian cosmonauts, and others who have journeyed into space.

This book, offering insight into the discoverers, their innovations, and how their achievements resulted in changing our world today, covers calculus, history of analysis, and concepts in analysis and calculus.