First You Build a Cloud: And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life

Cole, K. C.

ISBN 10: 0156006464 / ISBN 13: 9780156006460

Verlag: Mariner Books (edition First Edition), 1999

Beschreibung

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0156006464-11-1

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: First You Build a Cloud: And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life
• Verlag: Mariner Books (edition First Edition)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0156006464
• ISBN-13: 9780156006460
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: First Edition.
• Zustand: Good

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.