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Author : Y. Perelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Physics for Entertainment written by Y. Perelman and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yakov Perelman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105125017
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Yakov Perelmans Physics For Entertainment written by Yakov Perelman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, Physics for Entertainment was translated from Russian into many languages and influenced science students around the world. In the foreword, the book's author describes the contents as "conundrums, brain-teasers, entertaining anecdotes, and unexpected comparisons," adding, "I have quoted extensively from Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain and other writers, because, besides providing entertainment, the fantastic experiments these writers describe may well serve as instructive illustrations at physics classes." The book's topics included how to jump from a moving car, and why, "according to the law of buoyancy, we would never drown in the Dead Sea."
Author : Yakov Perelman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781452864471
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Physics for Entertainment written by Yakov Perelman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the early days of the Soviet Unionand using examples from Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Charles Darwin, and their Russian counterpartsthis lively bestseller from the 1930s is filled with answers to basic questions about physics.
Author : Y. Perelman
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0898750563
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Astronomy for Entertainment written by Y. Perelman and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronomy is a fortunate science; it needs no embellishments, said the French savant Arago. So fascinating are its achievements that no special effort is needed to attract attention. Nonetheless, the science of the heavens is not only a collection of astonishing revelations and daring theories. Ordinary facts, things that happen, day by day, are its substance. Most laymen have, generally speaking, a rather hazy notion of this prosaic aspect of astronomy. They find it of little interest, for it is indeed hard to concentrate on what is always before the eye.Everyday happenings in the sky are the contents of this book, free from professional terminology with easy reading. Its purpose is to initiate the reader into the basic facts of astronomy. Ordinary facts with which you may be acquainted are couched here in unexpected paradoxes, or slanted from an odd and unexpected angle solely to excite the imagination and quicken your interest. The daily aspect of the science of the skies, its beginnings, not later findings that mainly form the contents of Astronomy for Entertainment. The purpose of the book is to initiate the reader into the basic facts of astronomy. Ordinary facts with which you may be acquainted are couched here in unexpected paradoxes, or slanted from an odd and unexpected angle. The theme is, as far as possible, free from "terminology" and technical paraphernalia that so often make the reader shy of books on astronomy.Books on popular science are often rebuked for not being sufficiently serious. In a way the rebuke is just, and support for it can be found (if one has in mind the exact natural sciences) in the tendency to avoid calculations in any shape or form. And yet the reader can really master his subject only by learning how to reckon, even though in a rudimentary fashion. True, he has taken care to present them in an easy form, well within the reach of all who have studied mathematics at school. It is his conviction that these exercises help not only retain the knowledge acquired; they are also a useful introduction to more serious reading.This book contains chapters relating to the Earth, the Moon, planets, stars and gravitation. The author has concentrated in the main on materials not usually discussed in works of this nature. Subjects omitted in the present book, will, he hopes, be treated in a second volume. The book, it should be said, makes no attempt to analyze in detail the rich content of modern astronomy.Unfortunately Y. Perelman never wrote the continuation he had planned for this book, as untimely death in war bound Leningrad in 1942 interrupted his labours.
Author : Yakov Perelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782917260395
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mechanics for Entertainment written by Yakov Perelman and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfortunately, the extent of our physics knowledge still does not allow us to see clearly the crucial importance of this science. A wide range of physics notions such as the theory of motion, strength, force, and mechanics in general are still vague for beginners. Those "who do not know movement, do not understand nature" Aristotle once said. Although several pages of the author's book "Physics for Entertainment" (2 volumes) are dedicated to mechanics' problems, it very useful that he devoted a separate, but similarly written, book to mechanics. "Mechanics for Entertainment" is not a textbook. Instead it is a freestyle book with some entertaining experiments and descriptions of some exciting natural phenomena. I have included a number of mechanics laws applications in engineering, sports, circus performances and many other unexpected areas.
Author : Christine McKinley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101630094
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Physics for Rock Stars written by Christine McKinley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the host of the History channel’s Brad Meltzer’s Decoded: the laws of the universe like you’ve never experienced them before. This approachable book explains the world of physics with clarity, humor, and a dash of adventure. Physics for Rock Stars is not a weighty treatise on science, but a personal tour of physics from a quirky friend. Anyone who’s ever wondered why nature abhors a vacuum, what causes magnetic attraction, or how to jump off a moving train or do a perfect stage dive will find answers and a few laughs too. No equations, numbers, or tricky concepts—just an inspiring and comical romp through the basics of physics and the beauty of the organized universe.
Author : P. C. W. Davies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671528068
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book God and the New Physics written by P. C. W. Davies and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1984-10-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the discoveries of twentieth-century physics--relativity and the quantum theory--demand a radical reformulation of the fundamentals of reality and a way of thinking, that is closer to mysticism than materialism.
Author : Franklin Potter
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470357320
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mad About Modern Physics written by Franklin Potter and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More mind-bending fun in physics The sequel to the popular Mad About Physics, Mad About Modern Physics promises endless hours of entertaining, challenging fun. With detailed answers to hundreds of questions ("Are fluorescent lights dangerous to your health?", "What is a fuel cell?"), the book is also a treasure trove of fun science trivia. Featuring diagrams and illustrations throughout, this fascinating physics compendium will educate and captivate students, teachers, and science buffs alike. FRANKLIN POTTER, Ph.D., is a retired physicist from the University of California at Irvine. He continues to conduct research in elementary particle physics and cosmology, as well as consult in physics education. CHRISTOPHER JARGODZKI, Ph.D., is Professor of Physics at Central Missouri State University. He is also founder and director of Center for Cooperative Phenomena. He was born and raised in Poland, and received his Ph.D. in quantum field theory from the University of California at Irvine.
Author : P.R. Kelt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440526931
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Physics for Men written by P.R. Kelt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You think a real guy leaves everything up to chance? Don't count on it. It might seem like his every action is unplanned and unintentional, but that's not the case. Everything he does—from firing up the grill to avoiding taking out the trash—is thoroughly calculated before he does it. It's not rocket science. It's guy physics. This isn't the kind of physics they tried to teach you in school. While it does deal with velocity and force and all that good stuff, you can apply it in real life and really reap the rewards. Use it to beat your buddies on the court. Or you can use it to get out of your chores. It even comes in handy when you're working an angle at the bar. This guide proves a guy in motion will stay in motion—as long as that motion is toward a recliner and with a beer.
Author : Margaret Wertheim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802778739
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Physics on the Fringe written by Margaret Wertheim and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past fifteen years, acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting the works of "outsider physicists," many without formal training and all convinced that they have found true alternative theories of the universe. Jim Carter, the Einstein of outsiders, has developed his own complete theory of matter and energy and gravity that he demonstrates with experiments in his backyard,-with garbage cans and a disco fog machine he makes smoke rings to test his ideas about atoms. Captivated by the imaginative power of his theories and his resolutely DIY attitude, Wertheim has been following Carter's progress for the past decade. Centuries ago, natural philosophers puzzled out the laws of nature using the tools of observation and experimentation. Today, theoretical physics has become mathematically inscrutable, accessible only to an elite few. In rejecting this abstraction, outsider theorists insist that nature speaks a language we can all understand. Through a profoundly human profile of Jim Carter, Wertheim's exploration of the bizarre world of fringe physics challenges our conception of what science is, how it works, and who it is for.
