Can You Feel The Force?
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This issue’s cover illustration by Getty Images is from Tim Bowler’s Frozen Fire. Tim Bowler is interviewed by Geoff Fox. Thanks to Oxford University Press for their help with this September cover.
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Can You Feel The Force?
An admirable introduction to physics: In the Beginning: Brief historical starter, from the Greeks to Galileo and Newton; Can you Feel the Force?: Forces and energy, gravity, importance of friction, bicycles, cars, planes, golf balls and beds of nails; What’s the Matter?: Inside atoms, electrostatic effects, magnets, states of matter, walking on custard; and Can you See the Light?: The spectrum, why the sky is blue, effects of Einstein’s relativity; Who’s who?: 16 mini-bios, from Aristotle to Dirac; Glossary and Index. There are helpful timelines, entertaining experiments, FAQs, clear graphics, and occasional harmless simplifications. FP
