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Humane Physics - No Student was Harmed in Writing this Book
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Category:  Science
Publisher: Createspace

ISBN-10:  1494875268

Pages: 356

Copyright: 
Jan 2, 2014
ISBN-13: 9781494875268

Price: $20.00 (eBook)


History of Physics, Volume I - Classical Physics.

Age Range: 16 and up, Grade Level: 10 and up. In recent years, more and more books have been published on science in general and Physics in particular. Yet I notice a curious gap. Each book focuses on only one or two of the following aspects of physics: history, biography, theory, methods, applications and social significance. I am not aware of any that gives the reader a rounded picture, dealing with all of these in one book, in an integrated, comprehensive way. This book intends to fill that gap, covering the three most exciting areas of Classical Physics: Mechanics, Electrodynamics and Thermodynamics -- with a “Glimpse of the Future” chapter describing Einstein's Special Relativity Theory. I deal with these subjects in an entertaining way, using both amusing anecdotes and serious, focused descriptions of major concepts, experiments, discoveries and theories. The lives and significance of the principal scientists are summarized, non-mathematical explanations of basic concepts and fundamental laws are provided and consequences and applications pointed out. For advanced readers, the Appendix (called Math-Lovers' Paradise) points the way for further study, using advanced high-school mathematics. Many of the results presented in the main body of the book are mathematically proven and some typical examples are calculated. I also analyze the methods and the thought-processes applied by geniuses and highlight, with many examples, how the same methods could (and should) be used in our social and political lives to solve millennia-old problems of the 'human condition'. Laymen, high-school and college students could benefit from a book that gives them a birds-eye view of all aspects of the science of Physics in a precise, fundamental and integrated way. I sure missed this kind of book myself, both as a student and as a teacher, all my life.



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Let me tell you what physics means to me. It may be the way to finding the god I have never believed in. It is a door to a universe full of secrets and miracles and mystery. It is Alice's Wonderland, where everything is different from what you expect. Space and time is one and curved; simultaneity is an illusion; forever can last only a second, and a minute may last forever. Cause and effect may change roles and, if you didn't pay attention to the sound of the falling tree, you may have made it 'never happened'.
Physics is a window to look at the birth (and death) of the universe; it allows you to read messages from billions of years in the past, before the atoms making up the planet you stand on were created. Physics is the rapidly increasing heaviness that paralyses your body as you approach the speed of light so you can move only as in a dream - but only to the observers you are speeding away from, while you think you are going around in your normal way.
It is a world where matter can be created from nothing but energy and then turned back into radiating emptiness again; where particles can annihilate each other, winking out as they collide; where either of 'twin' particles, moving in opposite directions at the speed of light, still knows and reacts to what happens to the other; and where the entire universe may be nothing more than fluctuating vacuum, delineated by the Big Bang and the Big Crunch.
How can anything compete with miracles of this kind?


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