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  • For the Love of Physics

  • From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
  • By: Walter Lewin, Warren Goldstein
  • Narrated by: Kent Cassella
  • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (32 ratings)
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By: Walter Lewin,Warren Goldstein
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Summary

"You have changed my life" is a common refrain in the emails Walter Lewin receives daily from fans who have been enthralled by his world-famous video lectures about the wonders of physics. "I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through physics-colored eyes," wrote one such fan. When Lewin's lectures were made available online, he became an instant YouTube celebrity, and the New York Times declared, "Walter Lewin delivers his lectures with the panache of Julia Child bringing French cooking to amateurs and the zany theatricality of YouTube's greatest hits."

For more than 30 years as a beloved professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lewin honed his singular craft of making physics not only accessible but truly fun, whether putting his head in the path of a wrecking ball, supercharging himself with 300,000 volts of electricity, or demonstrating why the sky is blue and why clouds are white.

Now, as Carl Sagan did for astronomy and Brian Green did for cosmology, Lewin takes listeners on a marvelous journey in For the Love of Physics, opening our eyes as never before to the amazing beauty and power with which physics can reveal the hidden workings of the world all around us. "I introduce people to their own world," writes Lewin, "the world they live in and are familiar with but don't approach like a physicist - yet."

Could it be true that we are shorter standing up than lying down? Why can we snorkel no deeper than about one foot below the surface? Why are the colors of a rainbow always in the same order, and would it be possible to put our hand out and touch one? Whether introducing why the air smells so fresh after a lightning storm, why we briefly lose (and gain) weight when we ride in an elevator, or what the Big Bang would have sounded like had anyone existed to hear it, Lewin never ceases to surprise and delight with the extraordinary ability of physics to answer even the most elusive questions.

©2011 Walter Lewin and Warren Goldstein (P)2011 Tantor

Critic reviews

"As joyful as Richard Feynman's Lectures in Physics (but without the math), this text (written with the aid of University of Hartford historian Goldstein) glows with energy and should please a wide range of readers." ( Publishers Weekly)

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Too many numbers

It's one of thse rare occasions were an audio book lets you down, owing to the scientific nature of this book there are many refrences to numbers. When reading a text one just " takes in" a number but when they are constantly read to you it becomes a little tiresome. Overall quite good but not a Feynmen.

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spectacular!

this book gave me a great deal of understanding the ways in which physics governso our reality

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Physics all the way

To be honest I'm not really good with Physics but I was always interested in learning something new or gaining an understanding of how things work.



If you listen to this audio book, it will do exactly do that. It explains "things" in a way even I can understand them. It;s funny and entertaining and I do love the experiments that you can try at home !



Who should listen to this book ?

Well just about everybody - for instance I asked my other half, who studied astro physics to listen to some of it, and he enjoyed it just as much as me.

You can have your children listen to it, since there is so much to discover and maybe even have a parent child competition to try out one of the experiments.



Should you still want more then you could even watch some of it on YouTube where I found

some of the experiments demonstrated.



Go listen and learn - that's my advice !



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inspiring

an interesting, deeply informative and enjoyable physics course. A great read and listen. Thank you.

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I would recommend thisaudiobook title to anybody interested in physics and has a passion towards learning.

What other book might you compare For the Love of Physics to, and why?

This is my first download so I cannot comment yet.

What about Kent Cassella’s performance did you like?

He handled the whole audiobook very well and managed to show appreciation to what he was reading.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Not to sure how to answer that at the moment. :)

Any additional comments?

Enjoyed this audiobook. I hope to be informed in the future if there will be any more physics audiobooks, especially if it has to do with Walter Lewin.

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