The cartoon guide to physics

✍ Scribed by Huffman, Art; Gonick, Larry

Publisher: HarperPerennial
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Leaves: 221
Edition: 1st HarperPerennial ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Humorous cartoons illustrate basic concepts in physics.

✦ Table of Contents

Mechanics: Motion --
Apple and the moon --
Projectiles --
Satellite motion and weightlessness --
Other orbits --
Newton's third law --
More about forces --
Momentum and impulse --
Energy --
Collisions --
Rotation --
Electricity and magnetism: Charge --
Electric fields --
Capacitors --
Electric currents --
Series and parallel --
Magnetic fields --
Permanent magnets --
Faraday induction --
Relativity --
Inductors --
AC and DC --
Maxwell's equations and light --
Quantum electrodynamics.

✦ Subjects

Physics -- Caricatures and cartoons;Physics -- Popular works;Physics;Physics -- Cartoons and caricatures

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