What Einstein Didn't Know: Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions: 15th Anniversary Edition - Softcover

Wolke, Robert L.

 
9780486492896: What Einstein Didn't Know: Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions: 15th Anniversary Edition
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0486492893 ISBN 13: 9780486492896
Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., 2014

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Discover how cricket chirps can tell us the temperature, why you can't unburn a match, why ice floats, and a host of mysteries of modern living — including some riddles that maybe even Einstein couldn't solve. From the simple (How does soap know what's dirt? How do magnets work? Why do batteries die?) to the more complex (Why does evaporation have a cooling effect? Where does uranium get its energy?), this book makes science more understandable and fun.
Author Robert Wolke provides definitive and easy-to-comprehend explanations for things that we take for granted, like the illumination behind neon signs and the mysteries of beverage carbonation. Wolke also dares readers to explore and conduct their own experiments with food, kitchen utensils, and common household products. This fifteenth anniversary edition of his bestselling popular science classic has been completely revised and expanded.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert L. Wolke is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh and a food columnist for The Washington Post. The recipient of numerous awards, he enjoys nationwide renown as an educator, lecturer, and interpreter of science for lay audiences.

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Verlag
Dover Publications Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0486492893
ISBN 13 
9780486492896
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Anzahl der Seiten
223
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