First You Build a Cloud - Couverture souple

Cole, K. C.

 
9780156006460: First You Build a Cloud
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0156006464 ISBN 13 : 9780156006460
Editeur : Mariner Books, 1999

Synopsis

For many of us, physics, like math, has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. In First You Build a Cloud, K. C. Cole provides cogent explanations through animated prose, metaphors, and anecdotes, allowing us to comprehend the nuances of physics-gravity and light, color and shape, quarks and quasars, particles and stars, force and strength. We also come to see how the physical world is so deeply intertwined with the ways in which we think about culture, poetry, and philosophy. Cole, one of our preeminent science writers, serves as a guide into the world of such legendary scientific minds as Richard Feynman, Victor Weisskopf, brothers Frank Oppenheimer and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Philip Morrison, Vera Kistiakowsky, and Stephen Jay Gould.

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À propos de l?auteur

A popular science columnist for the Los Angeles Times and teacher at UCLA, K.C. Cole is a recipient of the 1995 American Institute of Physics Award for Best Science Writing. She is also the author of the internationally bestselling The Universe and the Teacup, First You Build a Cloud, and The Hole in the Universe. Cole lives in Santa Monica, California.

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Éditeur
Mariner Books
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0156006464
ISBN 13 
9780156006460
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
252
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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