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  2. Berkeley Physics Course - Wikipedia

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    Quantum Physics, by Eyvind H. Wichmann; Statistical Physics, by Frederick Reif; Volume 2, Electricity and Magnetism, by Purcell (Harvard), is particularly well known, and was influential for its use of relativity in the presentation of the subject at the introductory college level. Half a century later the book is still in print, in an updated ...

  3. Schaum's Outlines - Wikipedia

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    McGraw-Hill purchased Schaum Publishing Company in 1967. [2] Titles are continually revised to reflect current educational standards in their fields, including updates with new information, additional examples, use of new technology (calculators and computers), and so forth. New titles are also introduced in emerging fields such as computer ...

  4. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology - Wikipedia

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    The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology is an English-language multivolume encyclopedia, specifically focused on scientific and technical subjects, and published by McGraw-Hill Education. [1] The most recent edition in print is the eleventh edition, copyright 2012 (ISBN 9780071778343), comprising twenty volumes.

  5. John C. Slater - Wikipedia

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    John Clarke Slater (December 22, 1900 – July 25, 1976) was an American physicist who advanced the theory of the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids. [1] [2] [3] He also made major contributions to microwave electronics. [1]

  6. S&P Global Commodity Insights - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, when McGraw-Hill changed its name to S&P Global, the Platts division was renamed S&P Global Platts. Platts' first significant acquisition came in 2001, when it acquired FT Energy. [ 7 ] That acquisition gave it the Platts Global Energy Awards, considered one of the industry's biggest awards event, held every December in New York.

  7. Composition of the human body - Wikipedia

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    Parts-per-million cube of relative abundance by mass of elements in an average adult human body down to 1 ppm. About 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.

  8. Percy Williams Bridgman - Wikipedia

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    Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21, 1882 – August 20, 1961) was an American physicist who received the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of science .

  9. Atomic recoil - Wikipedia

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    In nuclear physics, atomic recoil is the result of the interaction of an atom with an energetic elementary particle, when the momentum of the interacting particle is transferred to the atom as a whole without altering non-translational degrees of freedom of the atom.