Buy this book on-line Bruce, Colin : The Strange Case of Mrs. Hudson's Cat and Other Science Mysteries Solved by Sherlock HolmesAddison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1997 ISBN 9780201461398
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The World's Greatest Detective becomes the world's greatest explainer of physics in baffling cases of science gone mad,and nature gone murderous!
In this suspenseful volume Colin Bruce has recreated the atmosphere of the original Sherlock Holmes stories to explain the most fascinating principles of physics in a new,exciting way - through twelve completely original adventures of London's most famous fictional inhabitant. In this face-paced collection,Sherlock Holmes,ably assisted by the faithful Watson,Professor Challenger,and other beloved Conan Doyle characters,must unravel the paradoxes and principles of classical and quantum physics in order to solve a crime,prevent an assassination,or rescue a damsel in distress.
In the title story,years before Schrodinger put his uncertain cat into its deadly box,Holmes and Watson discover that a harmless lottery may have catastrophic quantum effects on their landlady's poor tabby.In the Case of the Pre-Atomic Doctor,the detectives can only save a lonely widow from the chicanery of a charlatan by anticipating Einstein's discovery of random molecular jumps of Brownian motion.
In the Case of the Missing Energy,the arrogant,quirky Professor Challenger is called upon to solve the eerie thermodynamics puzzle of divers found dead of heatstroke at the bottom of an icy sea.And in the Case of the Energetic Anarchist,Holmes and Watson must brave the inevitable laws of nuclear physics to stop a terrorist from setting off the ultimate weapon.
These and eight more physics paradoxes and conundrums will astound and instruct the curious armchair physicist or detective.For while they read just like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's own legendary mystery stories,these suspenseful new tales have a dual purpose: to entertain, and to explain the fascinating laws of physics the way that the great detective would have done.They succeed in both objectives so brilliantly,you won't even realise you've learned something until it's too late!
Colin Bruce is a physicist and science writer living in Oxford,England.He is an expert in physics paradoxes,and a lover of mysteries.
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