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    What Einstein Didn't Know: Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions
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    What Einstein Didn't Know: Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions

    By Robert L. Wolke

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    About this ebook

    Discover how cricket chirps can tell us the temperature, why you can't unburn a match, why ice floats, and a host of mysteries of modern living — including some riddles that maybe even Einstein couldn't solve. From the simple (How does soap know what's dirt? How do magnets work? Why do batteries die?) to the more complex (Why does evaporation have a cooling effect? Where does uranium get its energy?), this book makes science more understandable and fun.
    Author Robert Wolke provides definitive and easy-to-comprehend explanations for things that we take for granted, like the illumination behind neon signs and the mysteries of beverage carbonation. Wolke also dares readers to explore and conduct their own experiments with food, kitchen utensils, and common household products. This fifteenth anniversary edition of his bestselling popular science classic has been completely revised and expanded.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateMar 5, 2014
    ISBN9780486793337

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    • 4/5
      Mildly interesting. Mostly similar information to his other books. I enjoyed his sense of humor and the simple explanations of science for the non-scientist. Being a Ph.D. in Engineering and a past college professor this was largely not new information.A good book for those interested in science but are not scientists.
    • 2/5
      I found this substantially less appealing that Wolke's book on kitchen science, largely because in covering a broader spectrum of science, he covered much more territory that was already familiar to me. Even so he is certainly one of the best authors in this vein.