Re: Request: Text Suggestions

["Paul Camp" <pjcamp@coastal.edu>]

Tony Zee, Perfect Symmetry

Craig Bohren, Clouds in a Glass of Beer

Timothy Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way

Kip Thorne, Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

N. David Mermin, Boojums All The Way Through (excellent discussion of 
Bell's Inequality and the Aspect experiments plus a hilarious article 
on the trials of an author in the title essay)

R. P. Feynman, Six Easy Pieces

Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams

And on a related note, Robert Erlich, What If You Could Unscramble an 
Egg?

These are just off the top of my head, in no particular order.


> Just wondering if anyone on the phys-l list could recommend readings
> (textbooks, articles, etc.) for a course on 20th-Century Physics that
> I will be teaching this fall. The course is for non-science majors at
> a small, liberal-arts college. 
> Ari W. Epstein
> awe@pimms.mit.edu
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