Durante más de treinta años como profesor en el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), Lewin perfeccionó su peculiar arte de enseñar y de hacer de la física algo accesible y divertido. En sus cursos, siempre prácticos, ha llegado a colocar su cabeza delante de un martillo demoledor o a aplicarse una sobrecarga de trescientos mil voltios para explicar conceptos básicos a sus estudiantes.

In this book, Dr. Lewin deciphers many confusing aspects of natural phenomenon which surround us. The mysteries of rainbows and sound, electricity and magnetism, etc., are brought within our grasp of understanding after listening to Lewin's discussions. He uses layman's terms, for the most part, and gives simple yet practical examples to make his point. He seems genuinely interested in opening a new sense of understanding of the many seemingly complex things which surround us. However, I suspect Dr. Lewin started with the simpler examples, which many people will have a familiarity with and an intuitive sense about, and then gradually introduced topics which for me, where more difficult to grasp. His latter topics dealing with the stars and supernovas, pulsars, neutron starts, stellar x-ray sources, and less familiar units of measure took a toll on my ability to absorb. In those areas, I strongly suspect that the audio book version, which I listened to, should have been replaced by the bound book to allow a more personal pace, and to allow examination of some diagrams or drawings. Nonetheless, Dr. Lewin succeeded in most areas to demonstrate an ability to take seemingly complex phenomenon, and explain them in everyman's terms, bringing a much improved sense of understanding to us all. With fewer and fewer Americans studying science, this book can provide useful insights into better understanding the world we live in.
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I have no doubt Lewin is a fantastic teacher. The anecdotes about his life were quite interesting as were the stories of how he teaches. But he covers way too much ground in this short book so the explanations are rushed and often unclear. If I knew nothing about physics, I dont think I would be able to follow at all. I think I’ll watch his online classes because I didn’t come away Learning a lot of new stuff from this book. ( )

Good book but gets boring when the author depicts about his research activities.Finally takes his grip back trough the last chapter ( )

Unbedingt lesen! Für alle Physik-Liebhaber und Physikmuffel schreibt Lewin mit ansteckender Begeisterung.
Unter Vermeidung fast aller Formeln, dafür sehr anschaulich schafft er es, dass sich jeder schlau fühlen kann und es wirklich Vergnügen macht, die Grundzüge der Physik zu verstehen. Nie wird der Autor überheblich gegenüber den Laien, sondern er verfährt nach dem Prinzip, dass Wissen geteilt werden sollte und zwar so gut wie möglich.
Wer hätte gedacht, dass ich eines Tages erklären könnte, was eine Akkretionsscheibe ist oder wieso im Spektrum von Sternen die Absorptionslinien "fehlen"?

Wermutstropfen ist die schlechte deutsche Übersetzung.
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