Instant Physics
''Instant Physics'' (full title: ''Instant Physics'': ''From Aristotle to Einstein, and Beyond'') is a book by Tony Rothman first published by Ballantine Books, Fawcett Columbine in 1995. The book, meant for readers with a minimal amount of Mathematics, mathematical training, consists of ten chapters that cover most of the essential topics in physics, from classical mechanics and thermodynamics to nuclear physics, general relativity, and quantum mechanics. It has proven very popular with the public and as of 2017 remains in print.
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Tony Rothman
Tony Rothman (born 1953) is an American theoretical physicist, academic and writer. Early life Tony is the son of physicist and science fiction writer Milton A. Rothman and psychotherapist Doris W. Rothman. He holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College, (1975) and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin (1981), where he studied at the Center for Relativity. He continued on post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford, Moscow State University and the University of Cape Town. Career Rothman worked briefly as an editor at '' Scientific American'', then taught at Harvard, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bryn Mawr College and from 2005 to 2013 at Princeton University. In January 2016 he joined the faculty of NYU Polytech, now known as the Tandon School of Engineering and retired from teaching there in 2019. Rothman's scientific research has been concerned mainly with general relativity and cosmology, for which he has made contributions to the study of the early universe, specifica ...
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