The Cartoon Guide to Physics (Cartoon Guide Series) - Softcover

Gonick, Larry; Huffman, Art

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062731009 ISBN 13: 9780062731005

Publisher: HarperPerennial, 1991

Synopsis

If you think a negative charge is something that shows up on your credit card bill -- if you imagine that Ohm's Law dictates how long to meditate -- if you believe that Newtonian mechanics will fix your car -- you need The Cartoon Guide to Physics to set you straight.

You don't have to be a scientist to grasp these and many other complex ideas, because The Cartoon Guide to Physics explains them all: velocity, acceleration, explosions, electricity and magnetism, circuits -- even a taste of relativity theory -- and much more, in simple, clear, and, yes, funny illustrations. Physics will never be the same!

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Review:

It's been said that before physics students can fly with Feynman they need to walk with Halliday and Resnick. Those of us who are still toddling along, however, need Larry Gonick. Gonick's characteristically quirky drawings are teamed with physicist Art Huffman's prose to produce lessons like this: picture Sir Isaac Newton driving a Mack truck labeled "Big Inertia." Ike is talking into a CB radio, saying: "Breaker one nine: force overcomes inertia and produces acceleration. Do you read?" As the jacket copy says, "If you think a negative charge is something that shows up on your credit-card bill--if you imagine that Ohm's law dictates how long to meditate--if you believe that Newtonian mechanics will fix your car," here's the book for you. --Mary Ellen Curtin

From the Publisher:

System Requirements:
PC
Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
33 MHz 486DX
8 MB RAM
Double-speed CD-ROM drive

or

Macintosh
System 7.1 or later
68030 processor
8 MB RAM
Double-speed CD-ROM drive

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperPerennial
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0062731009
• ISBN 13: 9780062731005
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224