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DOES your head age faster than your toes? How do you describe basketball using quantum mechanics?

Franklin Potter and Christopher Jargodzki answer these and hundreds of other questions in Mad About Modern Physics, a compendium of facts, curiosities and oddments from what many consider the strangest of all sciences.

Don’t expect detailed explanations; this book is just the thing for an occasional dip.

Mad About Modern Physics

Franklin Potter and Christopher Jargodzki

Wiley

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