Science from Your Airplane Window

by Elizabeth A. Wood

Book Overview

Describes dozens of interesting phenomena and occurrences readily observable during an airplane ride and relates them to the appropriate scientific principles. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486232050
• ISBN13: 9780486232058
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

full of details, great plates

I would definitely recommend this little book; the amount of details it reveals to the unaided person is impressive; flying will never be the same after you read it; you will be curious about everything; The book however cannot be awarded 5 stars; There are basically two reasons for this: - It begins with the explanation on how lift on airfoils is produced. This explanation relies on the air particles on the suction side having to cover a longer distance than the air particles on the pressure side, both meeting at the trailing edge. This is a wrong argument. Today, you can find this kind of wrong arguments flourishing on the internet. - The physics underlying some observations is not explained; If I hadn't read Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics prior to Wood's book, I wouldn't have enjoyed this little gem.

Accurate, yet reads like a good story

Elizabeth Wood explains sky phenomenon accurately, yet in a way that is as easy to follow as a good story.

A gem on the shelf

Personally I have always thought about many of these topics while flying, but never gave a thought to writing anything in print. Kudos to Elizabath for providing simple understandings for a curious mind.