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Manufacturer: Insight Press
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Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 530
EAN: 9780935218084
ISBN: 0935218084
Label: Insight Press
Manufacturer: Insight Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 582
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Publisher: Insight Press
Studio: Insight Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 530
EAN: 9780935218084
ISBN: 0935218084
Label: Insight Press
Manufacturer: Insight Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 582
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Publisher: Insight Press
Studio: Insight Press
Editorial Review of Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality
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.
Customer Reviews of Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality
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Review Summary: A fine addition to any science library
Review: An excellent low-math book that covers many everyday concepts in physics, allows anyone to think through everyday problems and gain experience in thinking without doing calculations or sitting through endless ball-rolling-down-ramp labs. It shows ways that physicists and scientifically literate people think about physics problems in general terms. I've seen it on many shelves- grad students, postdocs and professors, teaching or not, since my undergrad days 25 years ago , alongside Art of Electronics, Jackson, Halliday/Resnik , and a book of integrals. Fine for junior- and high school students, and even younger with parental guidance. Many kids have sensible questions about why e.g. a bike stays up or who you really wouldn't want to run into on a football field, and the answers to them, and nice sketches too.
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Review Summary: Thought Experiments in Physics
Review: This book by Epstein is one of my better investments for secondary school (or undergraduate/graduate) physics books. Although I do not use it as a text, I have taken advantage of the problems posed within as warm-up questions to engage the students on the topics at hand(in addition to the hands-on demonstrations.) My students can really get fired up by some of the classical problems and the illustrations that accompany every questions within. The answer keys are highly intelligible as well as entertaining.
However, do not underestimate the questions as merely for the beginning students of physics: they are far from that realm. Some of the questions are challenging enough even for the professional physicists, and in fact even for Newton himself.
If you are intrigue, go buy it.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A must for every teacher
Review: Simple, but non trivial, conceptual problems with clear, insightful, elegant solutions without math. For everyday use to challenge students' minds.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Really makes you think.
Review: Think you know physics? The simple questions posed in this book will show you if you do. It is approachable enough for a lay person to pick it up and take a crack at it. The solutions give great insight for the seasoned physicists and newbies.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Elegant, brilliant answers
Review: Epstein presents a bunch of physics problems, and solves them all -- almost without any math -- with clear, insightful, elegant solutions. A brilliant book useful from grade 10 to grad school.
Review Summary: A fine addition to any science library
Review: An excellent low-math book that covers many everyday concepts in physics, allows anyone to think through everyday problems and gain experience in thinking without doing calculations or sitting through endless ball-rolling-down-ramp labs. It shows ways that physicists and scientifically literate people think about physics problems in general terms. I've seen it on many shelves- grad students, postdocs and professors, teaching or not, since my undergrad days 25 years ago , alongside Art of Electronics, Jackson, Halliday/Resnik , and a book of integrals. Fine for junior- and high school students, and even younger with parental guidance. Many kids have sensible questions about why e.g. a bike stays up or who you really wouldn't want to run into on a football field, and the answers to them, and nice sketches too.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Thought Experiments in Physics
Review: This book by Epstein is one of my better investments for secondary school (or undergraduate/graduate) physics books. Although I do not use it as a text, I have taken advantage of the problems posed within as warm-up questions to engage the students on the topics at hand(in addition to the hands-on demonstrations.) My students can really get fired up by some of the classical problems and the illustrations that accompany every questions within. The answer keys are highly intelligible as well as entertaining.
However, do not underestimate the questions as merely for the beginning students of physics: they are far from that realm. Some of the questions are challenging enough even for the professional physicists, and in fact even for Newton himself.
If you are intrigue, go buy it.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A must for every teacher
Review: Simple, but non trivial, conceptual problems with clear, insightful, elegant solutions without math. For everyday use to challenge students' minds.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Really makes you think.
Review: Think you know physics? The simple questions posed in this book will show you if you do. It is approachable enough for a lay person to pick it up and take a crack at it. The solutions give great insight for the seasoned physicists and newbies.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Elegant, brilliant answers
Review: Epstein presents a bunch of physics problems, and solves them all -- almost without any math -- with clear, insightful, elegant solutions. A brilliant book useful from grade 10 to grad school.