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Todd Timberlake author of Finding our Place in the Solar System discusses the key topic in his new book: The Copernican Revolution. "The Earth really does go around the Sun, but for a long time it was entirely reasonable to believe otherwise. This helps us to see why scientific controversies exist, but also how they are eventually resolved"
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A professor of Business Innovation and an experienced entrepreneur, Dick Whittington reflects on a weakness of STEM degree programmes in the modern world – and how he’s addressing it with his textbook Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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Global environmental issues were identified as a crisis in the 1960’s (1). The alarmist rhetoric caught the public’s attention, but stimulated a pessimistic attitude (2) that human beings were destabilizing an otherwise harmonious, “steady state” world. The focus on the environment accomplished much. It raised public awareness of issues from species extinctions to air and […]
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This blogpost advertises our new Cambridge University Press book Magnetohydrodynamics of Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas [1], by Goedbloed, Keppens and Poedts. We encourage all colleagues to send us feedback and criticisms, for possible future editions. Comments on the blog itself may be directed to its author, R. Keppens rony.keppens@kuleuven.be.
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Click here to check out a free chapter from Magnetic Nanoparticles in Biosensing and Medicine. Full book available now at Cambridge University Press. The last decade has seen a dramatic growth in research on applications of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) as evidenced by the increasing numbers of plenary sessions and conferences dedicated to them, such as the […]
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It is interesting to reflect upon how physics – a science heavily dependent on the language of mathematics – trains its future generations in that discipline. The role of mathematics in physics has changed profoundly in the last few decades. Quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, particle physics, and other sub-disciplines now routinely work at levels […]
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Thermodynamics is a theory which establishes the relationship between the physical quantities that characterise the macroscopic properties of a system. In our book, Principles of Thermodynamics, thermodynamics is presented as a physical theory which is based upon two fundamental laws pertaining to energy and entropy, which can be applied to many different systems in chemistry […]
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by Tiberiu Harko, author of Extensions of f(R) Gravity, 2018
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