Physics for Entertainment Volume 1 free download online
Title: Physics for Entertainment Volume 1 Author(s): Yakov I. Perelman Pages: 211 Publisher: Mir Moscow; 2nd edition Publication date: 1972 Language: English Format: PDF, DJVU ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Description: A classic of science education Published in 1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, Physics for Entertainment was translated from Russian into many languages and influenced science students around the world. Among them was Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, the Russian mathematician (unrelated to the author), who solved the Poincare conjecture, and who was awarded and rejected the Fields Medal. Grigori's father, an electrical engineer, gave him Physics for Entertainment to encourage his son's interest in mathematics. In the foreword, the book's author describes the contents as "conundrums, brain-teasers, entertaining anecdotes, and unexpected comparisons," adding, "I have quoted extensively from Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain and other writers, because, besides providing entertainment, the fantastic experiments these writers describe may well serve as instructive illustrations at physics classes." The book's topics included how to jump from a moving car, and why, "according to the law of buoyancy, we would never drown in the Dead Sea." Ideas from this book are still used by science teachers today. Yakov Isidorovich Perelman died in the siege of Leningrad in 1942.
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For those of you who are asking "who is Ya Perelman ?" He was a russian writer, I could tell you that his stature is comparable to that of Martin Gardner or Sam Loyd. He authored a dozen books (very hard to find) covering popular mathematics and physics. Even if his books date back to thirties, they are still very fun
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Title: Physics for Entertainment Volume 1