Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
book
BookPrinted Material
Author Lewin, Walter H. G.

Title For the love of physics : from the end of the rainbow to the edge of time-- a journey through the wonders of physics / Walter Lewin with Warren Goldstein.

Publication Info. New York : Free Press, 2011.

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  QC16.L485 A3 2011    Available  ---
Edition 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Description xvi, 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary Largely autobiographical account of the author's life as one who fell in love first with physics and then with teaching physics to students.
Contents From the nucleus to deep space -- Measurements, uncertainties, and the stars -- Bodies in motion -- The magic of drinking with a straw -- Over and under -- outside and inside -- the rainbow -- The harmonies of strings and winds -- The wonders of electricity -- The mysteries of magnetism -- Energy conservation -- plus ça change . . . -- X-rays from outer space! -- X-ray ballooning, the early days -- Cosmic catastrophes, neutron stars, and black holes -- Celestial ballet -- X-ray bursters! -- Ways of seeing.
Subject Lewin, Walter H. G.
Lewin, Walter H. G.
Physicists -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
Physicists.
Massachusetts.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject College teachers -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
College teachers.
Physics -- Study and teaching -- Netherlands.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Netherlands.
Physics -- Study and teaching -- Massachusetts.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Added Author Goldstein, Warren.
ISBN 9781439108277 hardcover
1439108277 hardcover
9781451607130 paperback
145160713X paperback
9781439123546 ebook
1439123543 ebook