Quantify!: A Crash Course in Smart Thinking - Hardcover

Grimvall, Göran

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801897165 ISBN 13: 9780801897160

Verlag: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Göran Grimvall is determined to help mere mortals understand how scientists get to the kernel of perplexing problems. Entertaining and enlightening, his latest book uses examples from sports, literature, and nature—as well as from the varied worlds of science—to illustrate how scientists make sense of and explain the world around us.

Grimvall's fun-to-read essays and easy-to-follow examples detail how order-of-magnitude estimation, extreme cases, dimensional analysis, and other modeling methods work. They also reveal how nonscientists absorb these concepts and use them at home, school, and work.

Grimvall's simple, elegant explanations will help you tap into your inner scientist. Read this book and enjoy your own "Aha!" moment.

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Göran Grimvall is professor emeritus of physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. An elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, he is the author of a number of popular physics books, including Brainteaser Physics, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0801897165
• ISBN 13: 9780801897160
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218
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