Concerning the Nature of Things

Developed from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist's popular lectures at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, this easy-to-understand book explains the nature of atoms, metal, gases, diamonds, ice, crystals, liquids, and other elements of our physical environment. No technical background is necessary to appreciate this volume. In language any layperson can understand, it answers such questions as: How birds fly, How uranium is transmuted to lead, How X-rays work, Why a spinning ball travels in a curved track, Why bubbles bounce away from each other. ...and illuminates many other scientific topics seldom explained in simple terms.