WHY BALLOONS RISE AND APPLES FALL: THE LAWS THAT MAKE THE WORLD WORK
Book ID/图书代码： 09220010B39375
English Summary/英文概要： We all know the world works in mysterious ways! But have you ever itched to know why? Why don’t heavier things fall faster? Why do we have more energy when we’re sitting upstairs? Is time travel really possible? And what happened to Schrodinger’s poor cat? "Why Balloons Rise and Apples Fall" is an accessible look at the fascinating, awe-inspiring and sometimes downright weird world of physics. It covers all the basics we learnt at school from: what is physics; motion and forces; work and energy; matter and heat; and, electricity and magnetism. It even covers the more thought-provoking and complex questions of relativity, quantum physics and astrophysics, as well as all the exciting philosophical questions that arise out of these subjects.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 世界真奇妙！为什么重力越大，下落越快？位置越高，势能越大？时间旅行是否可行？施罗丁格的猫又怎么了？你可曾想过一探究竟？现在，《气球上升苹果下落个中原委》（Why Balloons Rise and Apples Fall）为你全面解析。它涵盖了我们在学校里学到的物理基础知识，量子物理等复杂问题以及由此引出的相关哲学问题。(兼职翻译XJJ)
Awards/获奖情况：2010年9月，《大众科学》（Popularscience）英国版：“本书选材源于生活，课题经典，适合初学者。” "At just the right level for the beginner he runs us through all the classical physics that no one bothers with, yet is at the heart of everyday life"---Popularscience.co.uk, Sept 2010
About the Author/作者介绍： 杰夫•斯图沃特（Jeff Stewart）从小痴迷物理，在校擅长科学，后进入剑桥学习工程专业，中途因数学太难转而学哲学。也许他是在数学方面没有天赋，但他擅长化繁为简，用简单有趣的实例阐释复杂难懂的概念，因而有了这本书的诞生。更多详情，请登录他的个人网站：http://writerjeff.co.uk/
Jeff Stewart has always been fascinated by physics. He specialised in science at school and won a place to study engineering at Cambridge, though he quickly swapped to philosophy when the maths got too hard.
He’s the right person to write about floating balloons, falling apples and the many other wonders of the universe for people who don’t already understand physics because he’s good at explaining difficult concepts using simple, amusing examples.
It helps too that he’s continually amazed by the splendour of the world around us, and excited by the way that strange and brilliant physicists have slowly explained so much of it.
And, maybe most important of all, he isn’t brilliant at maths - so he isn’t going to bombard you with numbers.
Jeff’s website is at http://writerjeff.co.uk/
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