Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935218084 ISBN 13: 9780935218084

Publisher: Insight Press, Inc., 2002

Synopsis

Lewis Carroll Epstein explains deep ideas in physics in an easy-to-understand way. Thinking Physics is a perfect beginner's guide to an amazingly wide range of physics-related questions. The book targets topics that science teachers and students spend time wondering about, like wing lift. Epstein elucidates the familiar but misunderstood -- such as how tides work -- along with more obscure but fascinating phenomena like the "Bernoulli sub" and the "artificial aurora" created by hydrogen bombs. Broken into many short sections and peppered with Epstein's own playful hand-drawn illustrations, the book does not simply give the right answer: It also goes into the answers that seem right but are wrong and shows why they are wrong -- a rarity in science books. Thinking Physics is a rigorously correct, lighthearted, and cleverly designed Q and A book for physicists of all ages.

About this title

Synopsis

Offers physics problems and solutions involving mechanics, fluids, vibration, light, electricity, magnetism, relativity, and quanta.

About the Author

Epstein is a physics and astronomy professor.

Epstein is a physics and astronomy professor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Insight Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0935218084
• ISBN 13: 9780935218084
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Epstein Lewis Carroll
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 582