How to Fall Slower Than Gravity: And Other Everyday (and Not So Everyday) Uses of Mathematics and Physical Reasoning

by Paul J. Nahin

Book Overview

An engaging collection of intriguing problems that shows you how to think like a mathematical physicist

Paul Nahin is a master at explaining odd phenomena through straightforward mathematics. In this collection of twenty-six intriguing problems, he explores how mathematical physicists think. Always entertaining, the problems range from ancient catapult conundrums to the puzzling physics of a very peculiar kind of glass called NASTYGLASS--and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691176914
• ISBN13: 9780691176918
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"