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Back-of-the-Envelope Physics

✍ Scribed by Professor Clifford Swartz

Book ID: 127451838
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Library
City: Baltimore
ISBN-13: 9780801872631

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✦ Synopsis

"A physics educator's coffee-table book - a delightful and instructive accessory to an introductory physics course. - Physics World"

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