Kenneth Ford: 7 books

Flying with and without an engine. In this engaging memoir, Kenneth Ford does more than provide tales from his fifty years of piloting light airplanes and gliders. He explains the kinds of lift that keep gliders aloft, the idiosyncrasies of "tail-draggers," the art of landing in a crosswind, and more....

IN THE NEWSQ&A: Kenneth Ford on Textbooks, Popularizations, and Scientific SecrecyPhysics Today, June 2017Building the H Bomb: A Personal HistoryForum on Physics and Society, January 2017Don McCauley's audio interview with Kenneth FordThe Authors Show, 11 August 2016Mt....

IN THE NEWSQ&A: Kenneth Ford on Textbooks, Popularizations, and Scientific SecrecyPhysics Today, June 2017 This reissued version of the classic text Basic Physics will help teachers at both the high-school and college levels gain new insights into, and deeper understanding...

Il senso comune ci dice che la materia non svanisce nel nulla, che una particella e un’onda sono entità molto diverse e che una conoscenza sufficientemente accurata conduce a buone predizioni. Eppure, quando usciamo dall’ambito dell’esperienza quotidiana, per addentrarci nel mondo della fisica...

Studying Diversity in Teacher Education is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done...

This book is intended to be utilized as if it were a coach guiding you through the maze of personal financial literacy options available. The romantic parallelism is intended as an extra point of reference. It is ironic that these are two elements of life, romance and finance, that virtually everyone...

This reader-friendly, richly illustrated book provides an engaging overview of quantum physics, from “big ideas” like probability and uncertainty and conservation laws to the behavior of quarks and photons and neutrinos, and on to explanations of how a laser works and why black holes evaporate.