Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2010. The book contains many anecdotes and examples. Great book from a highly respected physicist, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2015. Please try again. Rich with anecdotes and accessible examples, it nimbly ranges over the tools and thought behind the world of modern physics, taking the mystery out of what is essentially a very human intellectual endeavor. Is there a more fundamental theory that explains its existence, along with that of electrons, quarks, photos, and W and Z particles?” In “Fear of Physics” by ... As much as I would love to understand modern physics, I have yet to find a book that I, as a lay person, can really understand. If you can get through it and understand 80% of what he is writing, you will be ahead of 95% of your friends. Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2020. Rich with anecdotes and accessible examples, Atom: Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth … and Beyond, Teach Yourself Physics: a travel companion, Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics and Revolution, Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries), Seeing Science: An Illustrated Guide to the Wonders of the Universe, Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe, Hiding in the Mirror: The Quest for Alternate Realities, from Plato to String Theory (by way of Alicei n Wonderland, Einstein, and The Twilight Zone), Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species. Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and compare prices. Work the problems linked to at the end of each section. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. This book is for the enthusiastic learner, not the faint of heart. The writer here has the knack of holding the reader to a subject that to say the very least is somewhat complex....ha! I assign chapters from this book to my physics students along with Lewin’s book, For the Love of Physics. Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and compare prices. Copyright © 2020 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2020. Not written for the person with zero background, nor for the scientist, but those of us in the middle who know a little and want to know more. Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed by Lawrence M. Krauss and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. Lawrence Krauss is an excellent writer. There was a problem loading your book clubs. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone with a passing interest in cosmology and the physics of the universe. Good book but can be long winded (for me). This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Although interesting Krauss assumes you have some background in the subject.
So begins this lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-edge research at the observable limits of the universe. Welcome to fearofphysics.com. I'm a big fan of Krauss, and this is one of his better books. ), progress (building on the existing body of knowledge and the connections between apparently disparate phenomena), and principles (specifically, scaling and symmetry) that contribute to the advance of theoretical physics. Please choose a different delivery location. [1] It was published in 1994 by Basic Books. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed. Students often have the misconception that all science is done by boring white men with crazy hair who hang out in labs following some set of directions and discovering new ideas in an orderly fashion.
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While Krauss acknowledges that this is a limited selection of ideas--the ``hidden realities'' of physics, not its stuff--he nonetheless serves quantum mechanics well. Unfortunately, I have to include Fear of Physics among these. Does this book contain inappropriate content? Nada que no supiéramos ya. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed is the second non-fiction book by the American physicist Lawrence M. This book might appear at first glance to be aimed at those readers that want only a very broad summary of physics, however Lawrence takes the reader through a tour of how physics has evolved over the last few hundred years to show how some key fundamental ideas (such as symmetry) now guide the whole of our current understanding of how the physical universe works. However, by the end of the book, Krauss has equipped the lay reader (like myself) to finally understand bleeding-edge concepts of physics like renormalization and symmetry-breaking.
Adopting a structured approach, Krauss covers the processes (simplifying complex problems, orders of magnitude, etc. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone with a passing interest in cosmology and the physics of the universe. Both change their viewpoint of physics and physicists. Teaching them to see science as messy, somewhat random and also exciting and bewildering is part of my mission in educating them. Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2013.
Fear of Physics is a lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-edge research at the observable limits of the universe. Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2017, Finally, I now understand some basic concepts of physics., Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2013. The first section deals with process, describing how physicists work by excluding the irrelevant. [2], A reviewer of Publishers Weekly stated " The accomplishments and views of such giants of modern physics as Einstein, Feynman and Heisenberg are used to illustrate the inventiveness required of those in the field. Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? The last parts of the book are really very elegant discussions of unifying principles and symmetries, such as the equivalence of mass and energy and electricity and magnetism.
Not your typical physics text. Lawrence Krauss is an excellent writer.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2016. "Assume the cow is a sphere." Fear of Physics book. Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2015. El profesor Krauss es un excelente comunicador.
Read this and you won't have. By a simple application of scaling laws relating to area and volume, one can show that a huge ``supercow'' is not possible without radically altering the dimensions or the materials involved. This book captures the wonder and joy of exploring our universe using science. Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed is the second non-fiction book by the American physicist Lawrence M. Krauss. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2010. Students often have the misconception that all science is done by boring white men with crazy hair who hang out in labs following some set of directions and discovering new ideas in an orderly fashion. Shipped very fast and the book arrived in a good status, didn’t get any damage (shipped to China). Krauss ( Cosmic Strings ), who teaches physics at Yale University, delivers a three-part lecture for lay readers on today's dominant research questions in theoretical physics. It’s an excellent book - perfect content, beautiful printing. This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location.
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