Why the Apple Falls: Fantastic Physics for Children
Why the Apple Falls: Fantastic Physics for Children
Swagata Deb and Sandipan Deb
- Language: English
- Print Length: 328 Pages
- ISBN-10: 9789353456429
- ISBN-13: 978-9353456429
Why do apples fall down and not up? Why does an astronaut become younger than her twin sister? Why do we need lots of nothing (zeroes) to count large numbers? Why does a smashed glass not repair itself? How old is the universe?
The world is weird and physicists have been asking strange questions like this forever. In this book, you’ll meet many of the great men and women (many of them Indians) who found the answers, and you’ll learn why some of those answers led to even stranger questions.
Why do apples fall down and not up? Why does an astronaut become younger than her twin sister? Why do we need lots of nothing (zeroes) to count large numbers? Why does a smashed glass not repair itself? How old is the universe?
The world is weird and physicists have been asking strange questions like this forever. In this book, you’ll meet many of the great men and women (many of them Indians) who found the answers, and you’ll learn why some of those answers led to even stranger questions.
Author Bios:
Swagata Deb has an MSc in Physics from IIT Kharagpur and a PhD from IIT Delhi. She was a senior scientific officer in IIT Delhi and has been a teacher for three decades. She is the author of several books for children, including The Magical World of Mathematics, which has been translated into Chinese, and Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne and Other Stories, which is now designated as a Puffin Classic. She is a painter and a Reiki healer.
Sandipan Deb is an IIT-IIM alumnus who quit corporate life to be a journalist and writer. He has been managing editor of Outlook, editor of the Financial Express and founding editor of Outlook Money, Open and Swarajya magazines. His books include Fallen Angel: The Making and Unmaking of Rajat Gupta; The Last War, a re-imagining of the Mahabharata in the Mumbai underworld; and Suryavamshi: The Sun Kings of Rajasthan, a translation of Abanindranatha Tagore’s Bangla classic Raj Kahini.
Swagata Deb has an MSc in Physics from IIT Kharagpur and a PhD from IIT Delhi. She was a senior scientific officer in IIT Delhi and has been a teacher for three decades. She is the author of several books for children, including The Magical World of Mathematics, which has been translated into Chinese, and Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne and Other Stories, which is now designated as a Puffin Classic. She is a painter and a Reiki healer.
Sandipan Deb is an IIT-IIM alumnus who quit corporate life to be a journalist and writer. He has been managing editor of Outlook, editor of the Financial Express and founding editor of Outlook Money, Open and Swarajya magazines. His books include Fallen Angel: The Making and Unmaking of Rajat Gupta; The Last War, a re-imagining of the Mahabharata in the Mumbai underworld; and Suryavamshi: The Sun Kings of Rajasthan, a translation of Abanindranatha Tagore’s Bangla classic Raj Kahini.
