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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…

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Editions

8 editions · 2 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2005
    Insight Press · 582 pages · 9780935218084
  • Paperback · English · 1981
    Insight Pr · 9780935218015
  • Other · English · 1986
    Thinking physics is Gedanken physics
    Insight Press · 561 pages · 9780935218060
  • Other · English · 1985
    Thinking physics is Gedanken physics
    Insight Press · 561 pages · 9780953218066
  • Other · English · 1983
    Thinking physics is Gedanken physics
    Insight Press · 561 pages · 9780953218042
  • Other · English · 1981
    Insight USA · 515 pages · 9780935218022
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