Physics and Technology for Future Presidents: An Introduction to the Essential Physics Every World Leader Needs to Know
One ofChoice's Compilation of Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates for 2010-2011"'Physics for Future Presidents' is a course, yes (with the professor's best seller, and soon its sequel, serving as textbook), but it is really more a tour de force. Richard A. Muller presents an astonishing amount of information on atoms, antimatter and other subjects. But since these are actual lectures, recorded in a hall on the Berkeley campus. . . . It's all highly entertaining and educational, although it's hard to imagine being able to absorb it all. The course is geared for nonscientists, billed as being long on concepts and short on math, and covers topics like radioactivity, climate change and waves of all kinds. Yet it doesn't spare details."--Henry Fountain,New York Times"[I]t's a great textbook for a physics course for non-scientists, and there's plenty of stuff in there to interest scientists as well."--Brian Clegg,Popular Science"Muller does a very good job of comprehensively describing the physics base of the technological infrastructure of our social world."--Choice