Motion Mountain: The Adventure of Physics – Vol. I: Fall, Flow and Heat

Is nature really as lazy as possible?
How do animals and humans move?
What is the most fantastic voyage possible?
Can we achieve levitation with the help of gravity?
Is motion predictable?
What is the smallest entropy value?
How do patterns and rhythms appear in nature?
How can you detect atoms and measure their size?
Which problems in everyday physics are unsolved?

Answering these and other questions on motion, this series gives an entertaining and mind-twisting introduction into modern physics – one that is surprising and challenging on every page. Starting from everyday life, the adventure provides an overview of the modern results in mechanics, heat, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum physics and unification.

Christoph Schiller, PhD Université Libre de Bruxelles, is a physicist and physics popularizer. He wrote this book for his children and for all students, teachers and readers interested in physics, the science of motion