Doing Physics: How Physicists Take Hold of the World

by Martin H. Krieger

Book Overview

?I have only the highest praise for Krieger?s perspicacious text. He makes observations about the thinking of physicists which are insightful and truly novel. He has a broad and far reaching perspective on the way physicists think. I don?t know anyone who has expressed it so eloquently.? ?Ben BrabsonThis is a book about physicists and what they are up to when they try to get a handle on the world. It describes the ways physicists actually do their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253331234
• ISBN13: 9780253331236
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

One of the most useful popular physics ever written.

Get this in hardback-it's that good. Kreiger eliquently tells the tax paying public who pays the freight for physics how a physicist thinks. They are different than you and me. Highly readable.