Physics and Technology for Future Presidents by Richard A Muller
How practical are alternative energy sources? Can satellites really read license plates from space? And how much should we fear a terrorist nuke? This book empowers students possessing any level of scientific background with the tools they need to make informed decisions and to argue their views persuasively with anyone - expert or otherwise.
One of Choice's Compilation of Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates for 2010-2011 "'Physics for Future Presidents' is a course, yes (with the professor's best seller, and soon its sequel, serving as textbook), but it is really more a tour de forceRichard A. Muller presents an astonishing amount of information on atoms, antimatter and other subjects. But since these are actual lectures, recorded in a hall on the Berkeley campus... It's all highly entertaining and educational, although it's hard to imagine being able to absorb it all. The course is geared for nonscientists, billed as being long on concepts and short on math, and covers topics like radioactivity, climate change and waves of all kinds. Yet it doesn't spare details."--Henry Fountain, New York Times "[I]t's a great textbook for a physics course for non-scientists, and there's plenty of stuff in there to interest scientists as well."--Brian Clegg, Popular Science "Muller does a very good job of comprehensively describing the physics base of the technological infrastructure of our social world."--Choice "[T]his handsome volume merits a very wide readership if we are to make the most of it and of everything else for that matter."--Arthur B. Shostak, European Legacy
Richard A. Muller is professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a past winner of the MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of "Nemesis" (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) and "Physics for Future Presidents" (Norton).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691135045 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691135045 |
| Title | Physics and Technology for Future Presidents |
| Author | Richard A Muller |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2010-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 536 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2011 |
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