What Einstein told his barber : more scientific answers to everyday questions
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Dell Pub., 2000.Description: xviii, 269 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780440508793
- 500 21 WOL-W
- Q173 .W7875 2000
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500 PHO-W When questions to 50 interesting answers | 500 PHO-W Who? : questions to 50 interesting answers | 500 VER-L Little book of scientific principles, theories & things | 500 WOL-W What Einstein told his barber : | 501 ALK-J The joy of science | 501 FEY-A Against method | 501 KUH-S Structure of scientific revolutions |
Includes index.
Comment by Dr. Alexander Fell
26/05/2014An interesting read. Finally some answers to daily questions someone does not bother to follow up. For instance: Why are the warning vests of e.g. construction workers or the marker "glow" so much? Why is wet fabric darker than dry one? Why does water boil at 212 degrees Fahrenheit and freezes at 32 degrees? Why these seemingly odd numbers. What is the real reason, why a 400 to jet plane can fly? (Hint it is not Bernoulli's principle, at least that is not the full story) If there is an absolute zero temperature, is there an upper bound? What is the hottest heat?
All these questions are answered in a light way without getting lost in arithmetic equations etc.