Motion Mountain - vol. 5 - The Adventure of Physics - Pleasure, Technology and Stars

This is the fifth volume (428 pages, edition 26, February 2014) of the Motion Mountain physics text, written to be surprising and challenging on every page. It provides a simple, modern and vivid introduction to the motion inside people, animals, nuclei, and stars, including the physics of perception and the senses, of crystals and of elementary particles. The text, printed in black and white, is written in an easy style, uses little mathematics, and is accessible to undergraduates, teachers and anybody who is interested in the precise description of nature. The colour pdf, with all the embedded films, can be downloaded for free at the www.motionmountain.net website. Enjoy the reading!