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Book suggestion? Natural phenomena/experiments

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phosphorylation
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2935 Posts
March 31 2012 17:22 GMT
#1
Does anyone know a good book that broadly covers a wide range of scientific topics, including scientific phenomena (eg. tectonic plates, lightning etc) and some significant experiments (eg. measuring speed of light, discovery of DNA structure)?

Ideally, it would go over these things in sufficient yet relateively concise detail so that the key scientific concepts behind these topics are covered.

Thanks for the help

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Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Hungary3932 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-31 17:47:22
March 31 2012 17:47 GMT
#2
Seems like you're looking for something very vague and generic. May I ask why are you looking for a book specifically (which might be hard to find with such a spectrum)?

If you want to learn about some specific natural phenomena or experiments, your best (most convenient) bet is just looking up sources online (nowadays wikipedia has a very detailed and well-managed article covering most phenomena you can think of, and if you have some personal problem with understanding something, ask about it in reddit's askscience or explainlikeimfive subreddits, or even here in blogs, surely someone will love to help).

If you're looking for a more generic introduction to science or some scientific concepts I suggest the books/videos of popular scientists ("science communicators") like Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku or even Bill Nye.
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phosphorylation
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2935 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-31 18:06:26
March 31 2012 17:56 GMT
#3
I am looking to get some grasp of broad range of natural topics, focusing on the underlying scientific concepts. This is both for personal enrichment and preparation for MCAT, which recently seem to focus on a very wide range of topics (some of it quite left-field).

I would strongly prefer a physical book for convenience and so that I can just read it casually when I am bored.
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forSeohyun
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
504 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-31 18:02:56
March 31 2012 18:02 GMT
#4
For a nice tome - Serway-Jewett Physics for scientists and engineerers,but maybe not what you are looking for.
If you want the history of science maybe you could try some of these books:
http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec/library_list.html#gen

I did some fun experiments measuring the speed of light when I was in the gymnasium - one using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau–Foucault_apparatus - the rotating mirror variant.

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Cortza
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
South Africa328 Posts
March 31 2012 22:28 GMT
#5
Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything?

It's not in depth but a good read.
phosphorylation
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2935 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-31 22:31:50
March 31 2012 22:31 GMT
#6
I appreciate the comments. I am looking for a slightly more technical read with scientific explanation of various phenomena and important scientific experiments. Less on the sociological context or trivia (which are very interesting indeed) and more on the scientific, conceptual front.
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ssartor
Profile Joined February 2011
United States129 Posts
April 01 2012 01:34 GMT
#7
Physics of the Impossible

http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Impossible-Scientific-Exploration-Teleportation/dp/0385520697
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zocktol
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany1928 Posts
April 01 2012 02:00 GMT
#8
On April 01 2012 07:28 Cortza wrote:
Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything?

It's not in depth but a good read.


This should fit your description. Covers everything a bit but nothing really indept.

A diffrent book would be the Physics of Superheroes. I liked that one, althoug i am not that deeply into physics.
Azera
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
3800 Posts
April 01 2012 02:02 GMT
#9
What about 'A Brief History of Time'?
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