Entertaining Physics

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Entertaining Physics by Yakov Perelman... Can we hold a bullet in our hands?... Why can't we create a perpetual motion machine?... How do mirages form?... Who invented the glasshouse for spacecraft?... The answers to these and many other fascinating questions can be found in this book. Entertaining Physics was written almost a quarter of a century ago, and since then, the author has continuously updated and expanded it. It has been printed seventeen times in Russian and translated into several foreign languages. The success of Entertaining Physics is due to the author's rare genius in observing and selecting from everyday life the ordinary and familiar facts and phenomena that simultaneously possess profound physical significance. This book is not intended as a textbook or a practical guide, but rather to help a wide readership grasp the influence of physical laws on those processes and phenomena we encounter daily but often overlook.