{"product_id":"backoftheenvelope-physics-johns-hopkins-paperback-9780801872631","title":"BackoftheEnvelope Physics Johns Hopkins Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCovering such subjects as astronomy, magnetism, optics, sound, heat, mechanics, waves, and electricity, the book provides a rich source of material for teachers and anyone interested in the physics of everyday life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis delightfully broad spectrum of 104 familiar situations, each one or two pages long, includes the terminal velocity of falling objects, fatal impacts during car wrecks, timing to find the distance of lightning strikes, investigating the size and power of binoculars, and the height of Earth's atmosphere... For the well-grounded physics enthusiast. Choice 2004 A physics educator's coffee-table book-a delightful and instructive accessory to an introductory physics course. Physics World Physicists young and old should follow Fermi and Swartz and hone a competency for back-of-the-envelope physics. -- Robert K. Adair Physics Today 2004 An entertaining new book Back-of-the-Envelope Physics by Clifford Swartz nicely provides material to assist students (and teachers!) gain experience in handling real-world physics. -- Colin Keay The Physicist 2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:Preface  Note to the Reader: Units and ApproximationsCHAPTER 1  Force and Pressure   Bed of Nails  Simple Thumbtack  Horsepower  Buoyancy in Air  How Dense Is the Ocean?  Washbowls and Coriolis Force  Points of Contact  Atmospheric Force  Weighing Your Car  Well and Water Tower  Pressure of Sunlight  Squashed Tennis Ball  Recoil  Fatal Impulse  Relative Gravitational Weakness  Strong Fields  Airplane LiftCHAPTER 2  Mechanics and Rotation   Terminal Velocity  The Unlikely Game of Baseball  Human Levers  Angular Momenta  The Twirling Skater  Rotating Water Pail  Grandfather Clock  Arm and Leg Pendulums  Precession of a Bicycle Wheel  Car Springs  Carousels and Rotors  Banked Road  Conical PendulumCHAPTER 3  Sound and Waves   Speed of Sound  Tsunamis and Ripples  Cold Flat Music  Thunder and Lightning  Wavelengths of Familiar Sounds  Scales and Chords  The Sound of Coke  The Sensitive Ear   of Visible Sight   v=c; hv= E  Trains and Doppler ShiftCHAPTER 4  Heat   Human Heaters  Negative Calorie Diet  The Moral of the Tail  Ice Skating  Thermal Expansion  Power Plant EfficiencyCHAPTER 5  Optics   Microscope Constraints  Binocular Size and Power  Seeing under Water  Candle PowerCHAPTER 6  Electricity   Electrostatic Charge on a Balloon  Capacitors  Capacitance of Spheres  Electric Field in a Wire  Electron Drift Speed  Unfamiliar Currents  High Cost of Battery Electricity  Magnet Strength  Matching Earth's B Field  Hanging Wire  Energy Storage in L and C  Jump-Rope Generator  Q of a Crystal Radio  E and B from a Lightbulb  Toaster Power  Magnetic Resonance ImagingCHAPTER 7  Earth   Radius of Earth  Geography and Weight  Height of Atmosphere  Depth of Earth's Gravity Field  Mountain Height  Earth Orbits  Escape Energy from Earth  Precession of the Equinoxes  Hole through the Earth  Slowing of the Earth's Rotation  Mass of Earth's Gravitational FieldCHAPTER 8  Astronomy   Diameter of Sun and Moon  Minimum Distance to Nearest Star  Pressure of Sunlight  How Many Photons to See a Faint Star?  Fueling the Sun  Age of the Elements  The 21 cm Line  The Prodigal SunCHAPTER 9  Atoms and Molecules   All atoms Are (About) the Same Size  Density if Air  Molecular Spacing in a Gas  Molar Energy  Latent Heat of Fusion and Vaporization  Surface Tension  Binding Force between Atoms  Atomic Spring ConstantCHAPTER 10  Particles and Quanta   Uncertainties of Photons and Mesons  Valence Electrons  Can Electrons Reside in the Nucleus?  Lucky Millikan  Nuclear Repulsion  Cyclotron  Synchrotron-Loss and Gain  Quantized Molecular Levels  Molecular Rotation Energy","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405198926167,"sku":"9780801872631","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801872631.jpg?v=1730489068","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/backoftheenvelope-physics-johns-hopkins-paperback-9780801872631","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}