In For the Love of Physics beloved MIT professor Walter Lewin whose riveting physics lectures
made him a YouTube super-star takes readers on a remarkably fun inventive and often wacky
journey that brings the joys of physics to life. For the Love of Physics captures Walter
Lewin's extraordinary intellect passion for physics and brilliance as a teacher-Bill Gates.
For more than thirty years as a renowned professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lewin's lectures made physics not only accessible but fun whether putting his head in the path
of a wrecking ball supercharging himself with three hundred thousand volts of electricity or
demonstrating why the sky is blue and clouds are white. In For the Love of Physics Lewin takes
readers on a marvelous journey opening our eyes as never before to the wonders of physics and
its amazing ability to reveal the beauty and power embedded in our world. Could it be true that
we are shorter standing up than lying down? Why can we snorkel no deeper than about one foot
below the surface? Why are the colors of a rainbow always in the same order can we stretch a
hand out and touch one? Using superbly clear and simple explanations of phenomena we've always
wondered about such as what the big bang would have sounded like had anyone existed to hear it
Lewin surprises and delights with physics-based answers to even the most elusive questions.
Whether showing us that a flea is strong enough to pull a heavy book across a table or
describing the coolest weirdest facts about the tiniest bits of matter Lewin always
entertains as he edifies. For me Lewin writes physics is a way of seeing-the spectacular and
the mundane the immense and the minute-as a beautiful thrillingly interwoven whole. For the
Love of Physics is a rare gem that will change the way readers see the world.
