Title: Mrs. Perkins's electric quilt
Subtitle: and other stories of physics and mathematics
First published: 2009
Description: In a series of brief and largely self-contained chapters, Nahin discusses a wide range of topics in which math and physics are mutually dependent and mutually illuminating, from Newtonian gravity and Newton's laws of mechanics to ballistics, air drag, and electricity. The mathematical subjects range from algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and calculus to differential equations, Fourier series, and theoretical and Monte Carlo probability. --from publisher description.
Subjects: Mathematical physics
LC classification: QC20 .N34 2009