Re: [Phys-l] one of my students emailed this to me this morning. anyone have any good answers?

[chuck britton <cvbritton@mac.com>]

I heartily recommend this book as well.

VERY accessible to a motivated teenager.

There were many other books like this one in the Penguin series that 
were peddled in Science Museums in the '50's - '60s.

Francis Bitter's book on magnets comes to mind.
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At 9:33 AM -0800 11/28/11, curtis osterhoudt wrote:
> I would highly, highly recommend anyone (we educators and 
> scientists, our students, and anyone interested about the natural 
> world) read C.V. Boys' "Soap Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould 
> Them". It's short, and fascinating, and I would have _loved_ to have 
> seen his original talks. It's available on Project Gutenberg: 
> http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33370