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Support Green Trust - The Handy Physics Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)
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List Price: $21.95
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Manufacturer: Visible Ink Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 530
EAN: 9781578590582
ISBN: 1578590582
Label: Visible Ink Press
Manufacturer: Visible Ink Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 456
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Studio: Visible Ink Press
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Summary: Embarrassing Errors
Comment: This book is good for a young kid who wants to understand basic physics. However, this book contains some embarrassing errors. In the nuclear weapons section, the authors describes the first atomic bomb (the one that was detonated over Hiroshima) as "Fat Man" and the 2nd atomic bomb (another one that was dropped to Nagasaki) as "Little Boy." The author got it wrong. The truth is the 1st atomic bomb was "Little Boy" and the 2nd one "Fat Man."
I wonder how many kids who read this book later somehow found the author's mistake.
I just hope that other sections don't contain errors.
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Summary: This is one of the most helpful science books that I have ever read!
Comment: I am a high school student interested in pursuing physics as a career. Since I participate in many clubs and classes regarding science, I find myself needing to do a lot of studying. However, after reading this book, I realized that I had been able to cover enough information to impress my team mates and keep my A in physics! This book covers everything: from motion and forces to sound, history to light, modern physics to magnetism, and heat to electricity. It is easy to read and written as though it is a friend who is simply informing you, not a genius who's lecturing you! Perfect for the beginning student interested in learning about the world around them, or even the intermediate or advanced one who is looking for some interesting facts and a handy reference guide. I recommend this book 100%!
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Summary: General Physics Questions & Answers
Comment: This book has the answers to many questions that you or your family may have about physics. Even if you do not have a specific question, just reading the book is both fun and educational. For example:
Why is the Earth magnetized?
What is the tallest building in the world?
What do AM and FM mean and how do they differ?
What is the longest bridge in the world?
How does the human eye see?
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Summary: OK for Children
Comment: This book might serve the need of elementary school children, but anyone with an introduction to physics will find the book to be of little use. There are hundreds of short (one paragraph) responses to all sorts of questions, some of them not much related to physics. At times the author wants to predict the future: What does the future hold for fusion? At times the author answers a question other than the one asked: Why do monkeys have tails? (The response is on the physical function of tails.)
Also there is little order to the text other than broad chapter headings. So if you have a question, the book provides little help in finding the answer.
Overall, a weak piece of bathroom reading.
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Summary: Handy. Physics. Answers.
Comment: What do Newton, Einstein, and "a typical kindergartner have in common? Aside from playing with their food and bad hair, they demonstrate a unique ability to ask deceptively simple questions..."
If you are wondering how cosmic inflation theory works, read cosmologist George Smoot's "Wrinkles in Time." If you are wondering about the weakness of perturbation theories or the strength of superstring theory, read theoretical physicist Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe." If you want to know what quantum tunneling is, look it up in physicist John Gribbins' "Q is for Quantum." But --
If your "how does that work" questions are less abstract, perhaps like: why is the doorknob opposite the hinges on a door (?) or why is the sky blue (?) or -- for something slightly more advanced -- how might an electron be pushed as close as possible to light-speed (?), then pick up a copy of Gundersen's "Handy Physics Answer Book." A wonderful resource, the book is exactly what the title suggests. Interesting `everyday' questions are posed, the kind of questions a young child might ask, but which most adults would struggle to answer. The answers follow, always in clear and concise language. It will be money well spent, Gundersen, a high school physics teacher, covers a lot of ground, and answers a lot of questions.
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Who would have guessed that physics would become the hottest topic on Broadway? Handy Physics is just the book for anyone trying to get a handle on what is a difficult but extremely trendy science and is sure to help readers become more socially successful. What, really, does E=MC2 mean? More fun than a slide rule, Handy Physics tackles the big issues: Gravity. Magnetism. Matter. Sound. Light. And the smaller topics, like why do cats always land on their feet? Why don't birds or squirrels on power lines get electrocuted? Only Handy Physics combines elementary theory with heartwarming tales of small animals. For everyone who ever wondered how a light bulb works, The Handy Physics Answer Book examines more than 825 basic questions about physics and physicists, ranging from everyday life applications to the latest explorations in subatomic physics. The Handy Physics Answer Book disposes with the mathematical explanations and deep coma often associated with physics and instead takes a more conceptual approach – written in everyday English by yet another teacher. Other great stuff includes a list of the Nobel Prize winners in physics and suggestions for further reading. Ideal for students, science readers, theatergoers, and anyone reckoning with the essential questions about the universe we dwell within, Handy Physics is a friendly guide to the most significant scientific theories and discoveries of our time. And, we promise, no chalkboards.
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