The Pocket Professor: Everything You Need to Know About Physics (The Pocket Professor)

The Pocket Professor: Everything You Need to Know About Physics (The Pocket Professor)

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Comprehensive informative, and fun, Pocket Professors are crammed with the facts and tidbits your brain promptly forgot after college. Designed to provide a crash course on your favorite subject without the burden of stuffy research or longwinded discourses, you'll dip and flip your way through each volume to gain an encyclopedic wealth of knowledge and dinner party edge -- sans the outrageous tuition!

If you think the Laws of Motion are only discussed in the local traffic court, or that E=mc2 is the name of a rap group, The Pocket Professor: Physics is just the thing to accelerate your learning curve and give you the vocabulary and core knowledge you need to make sense of the rules that govern our universe. You'll learn why Galileo dropped the ball, follow Planck on his quantum leap, and perceive the relative genius of Einstein. Taking you to the eve of the atom's discovery and explaining the seriousness of gravity, this invaluable volume gives you everything you need to better understand the world according to Newton (that's Sir Isaac, not Big Fig). Here's just a bit of what you'll learn:

• Why Matter Matters
• The Attraction of Magnetism
• Why a Wave is a Wave is a Wave...is a Particle
• Why Aristotle was the Wrongest for the Longest
• How to Win a Nobel Prize
• Using Physics to Beat Your Insurance Company
• And Much More!

Complete with easy-to-understand discussions of everything from the Big Bang to quarks, conservation of energy to interstellar travel, The Pocket Professor: Physics puts a clear scientific method to the madness of the world around us.

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