Ponderables: Physics
Item #529636P
-Number of books: 1
-Age: Adult
-Author: Tom Jackson
-Format: Hardback with pull out poster
The thoughts and deeds of great thinkers always make great stories, and here are one hundred of the most significant. Each story relates to a confounding puzzle that became a discovery and changed the way we see the world.
Includes a 12-page, 2.5 meter pull out timeline poster with over 1000 milestone facts – great to use to track great events that were happening at the same time.
PONDERABLES PHYSICS
Physics, the field of enquiry that investigates the very foundations of Nature and without which all other sciences would be meaningless. Here, discover how great physicists uncovered the truths about the universe: Galileo discovered the principles of pendulums while watching a lamp swing in church; Isaac Newton realised that the force holding the Moon in orbit was the same one that made apples fall from trees; and Richard Feynman figured out how subatomic particles behave while watching a student spin a lunch plate.
These physicists and many like them have changed the way we picture the Universe. As we study the stuff of nature in ever closer detail, what will we see next?
Number of books: 1
Age: Adult
Author: Tom Jackson
Format: Hardback with pull out poster
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