Thinking Physics: Practical Lessons in Critical Thinking

Lewis Carroll Epstein explains deep ideas in physics in an easy-to-understand way. Thinking Physics is a perfect beginnerâ??s guide to an amazingly wide range of physics-related questions. The book targets topics that science teachers and students spend time wondering about, like wing lift. Epstein elucidates the familiar but misunderstood ? such as how tides work ? along with more obscure but fascinating phenomena like the ?Bernoulli subâ? and the ?artificial auroraâ? created by hydrogen bombs. Broken into many short sections and peppered with Epsteinâ??s own playful hand-drawn illustrations, the book does not simply give the right answer: It also goes into the answers that seem right but are wrong and shows why they are wrong ? a rarity in science books. Thinking Physics is a rigorously correct, lighthearted, and cleverly designed Q and A book for physicists of all ages.