The Cartoon Guide to Physics

by Larry Gonick, Art Huffman

Overview

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 need The Cartoon Guide to Physics to set you straight.

You don't have to be a scientist to grasp these and many other complex ideas, because The Cartoon Guide to Physics explains 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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062731005
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	12/18/1991
Series:	Cartoon Guide Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	178,286
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 7.24(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, math, and other big subjects for more than forty years. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics), a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College.

Editorial Reviews

"Gonick is close to being one of a kind."— Discover"

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