Instant Physics by Tony Rothman
For all of you who break out in a sweat at the thought of thermodynamics, or freeze up at the mention of quantum mechanics, like a bolt from the blue, INSTANT PHYSICS will zap you through the fascinating history of our most basic, yet baffling, science.From the thousand-year search for proof of the existence of the ever-elusive atom to the varied and heated arguments behind the big bang theory, INSTANT PHYSICS answers all the heavy questions with a light touch. You'll learn:
* How the Greek philosophers used the sledgehammer of mathematics to break apart the mysteries of the physical universe.
* Why gravity is a romantic force.
* How to tell the difference between a gluon, a meson, and a quark, even if you can't see them.
INSTANT PHYSICS is crammed with special features, including chapter summaries, who's who lists, biographical and historical tidbits, and a host of illustrations, photos, equations, diagrams, and drawings.
Tony Rothman holds a PhD in physics from the University of Texas at Austin and is a theoretical cosmologist. After teaching at Princeton and Harvard Universities, he joined the faculty of NYU's Tandon School of Engineering in 2016. Rothman has written about 60 scientific papers and 11 previous books, including fiction and nonfiction, to date. Firebird, a novel about a race for nuclear fusion, and The Course of Fate, a historical novel about the Great Siege of Malta in 1565, are the most recent. With Hidetoshi Fukagawa, he co-authored Sacred Mathematics, Japanese Temple Geometry, which won the American Association of Publishers Award for Professional and Academic Achievement in Mathematics in 2008. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and has won various other writing honors.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780449906972 |
| ISBN 10 | 0449906973 |
| Title | Instant Physics |
| Author | Tony Rothman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1995-02-21 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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