30-Second Physics

In a world where physics is an everyday essential and new quantum developments make headline news, you need to know your atoms from your antimatter, and learn just enough to speak with fluidity about Fluid Dynamics and be certain about the Uncertainty Principle. Here is the fastest way to get up to speed with rocket science—and the rest. 30-Second Physics tackles the big ideas behind life as we know it, from electromagnetic waves that enable us to connect in an instant from opposite ends of the earth to the gravity that keeps our feet firmly on the ground. Each entry is summarized in just 30 seconds—using nothing more than two pages, 300 words, and a single picture. Illustrated with inventive graphics and supported by biographies of the physicists who transformed scientific knowledge forever.