The Cartoon Guide to Physics
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Cartoon Guide to Physics
By (Author) Larry Gonick
By (author) Art Huffman
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
William Morrow Paperbacks
13th May 1992
22nd July 1999
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Physics
530.0207
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 187mm, Height 235mm, Spine 14mm
297g
Description
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 needThe Cartoon Guide to Physicsto set you straight.
You don't have to be a scientist to grasp these and many other complex ideas, becauseThe Cartoon Guide to Physicsexplains 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!
Reviews
"Gonick is close to being one of a kind.""-- Discover"
Author Bio
Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He wrote his first guide, Blood from a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform, in 1977. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and he is staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.
