What Einstein Didn't Know: Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions - Softcover

Wolke, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486492893 ISBN 13: 9780486492896

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2014

Synopsis

Discover how cricket chirps can tell us the temperature, why you can't unburn a match, why ice floats, and a host of mysteries of modern living -- including some riddles that maybe even Einstein couldn't solve. From the simple (How does soap know what's dirt? How do magnets work? Why do batteries die?) to the more complex (Why does evaporation have a cooling effect? Where does uranium get its energy?), this book makes science more understandable and fun.Author Robert Wolke provides definitive and easy-to-comprehend explanations for things that we take for granted, like the illumination behind neon signs and the mysteries of beverage carbonation. Wolke also dares readers to explore and conduct their own experiments with food, kitchen utensils, and common household products. This fifteenth anniversary edition of his bestselling popular science classic has been completely revised and expanded.

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Product Description

From the simple (How do magnets work?) to the complex (Where does uranium get its energy?), this creative volume offers intriguing insights into scientific facts. Definitive accounts of the workings behind everyday phenomena of neon signs, soap film, beverage carbonation, and more. Includes do-it-yourself experiments. This updated edition of a bestselling classic includes two new chapters.

From the Author

NEW TITLE, NEW PUBLICATION DATE
This book was previously titled "Why Do Batteries Die?--Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions", and was to be published in paperback in the spring of 1996. It is now finally being released (honest!) in hard cover in March 1997 under the new "Einstein" title. Anyway, it's the same fun book that explains everything you ever wondered about (almost) in plain language: How things work, why things happen, and why stuff behaves the way it does -- in the kitchen, around the house, in the garage, and in the great outdoors. Ever wonder how soap "knows" what's dirt? Why ice floats? Why Superman can't see through lead (or can he?)? Check it all out, and have a few laughs at the same time. It's an ain't-science-fun book for grownups. (But don't be surprised if your kids swipe it.)

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0486492893
• ISBN 13: 9780486492896
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272