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Loading... What Einstein Told His Barber: More Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions (edition 2000)by Robert Wolke
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. It's a fun read with good language. And, some parts of it are truly interesting. The reason why it gets only 2 stars is it has many mistakes here and there. For instance, the speed of light being told as 3 million kilometer per second everywhere was really bugging me throughout the book. There were many similar mistakes for values written in the metric system. Other than that the book was fine. no reviews | add a review
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What makes ice cubes cloudy? How do shark attacks make airplanes safer? Can a person traveling in a car at the speed of sound still hear the radio? Moreover, would they want to. . . ?Do you often find yourself pondering life's little conundrums? Have you ever wondered why the ocean is blue? Or why birds don't get electrocuted when perching on high-voltage power lines? Robert L. Wolke, a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh and acclaimed author of What Einstein Didn't Know, understands the need to . . . well, understand. Now he provides more amusing explanations of such everyday phenomena as gravity (If you're in a falling elevator, will jumping at the last instant save your life?) and acoustics (Why does a whip make such a loud cracking noise?), along with amazing facts, belly-up-to-the-bar bets, and mind-blowing reality bites all with his trademark wit and wisdom.If you shoot a bullet into the air, can it kill somebody when it comes down? You can find out about all this and more in an astonishing compendium of the proverbial mind-boggling mysteries of the physical world we inhabit.Arranged in a question-and-answer format, What Einstein Told His Barber is for anyone who ever pondered such things as why colors fade in sunlight, what happens to the rubber from worn-out tires, what makes red-hot objects glow red, and other scientific curiosities. No library descriptions found. |
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