Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe

by Megan Watzke

Other authorsKimberly Arcand (Author)
Hardcover, 2017

Status

Available

Call number

523.1

Collection

Publication

Black Dog & Leventhal (2017), Edition: Illustrated, 192 pages

Description

"In Magnitude, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time, temperature in our universe, from the tiniest particle within the structure of an atom to the most massive galaxy in the universe; from the speed at which grass grows (about 2 to 6 inches a month) to the speed of light. Fully-illustrated with four-color drawings and infographics throughout and organized into sections including Size and Amount (Distance, Area, Volume, Mass, Time, Temperature), Motion and Rate (Speed, Acceleration, Density, Rotation), and Phenomena and Processes (Energy, Pressure, Sound, Wind, Computation), Magnitude shows us the scale of our world in a clear, visual way that our relatively medium-sized human brains can easily understand."--… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

192 p.; 11 inches

ISBN

031650291X / 9780316502917
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