What if? : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions / Randall Munroe.
What if? : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions / Randall Munroe.
What if? : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions / Randall Munroe.
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Call Numbers
G 2014/5268
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Global windstorm -- Relativistic baseball -- Spent fuel pool -- Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #1 -- New York-style time machine -- Soul mates -- Laser pointer -- Periodical wall of the elements -- Everybody jump -- A mole of moles -- Hair dryer -- Weird (and worrying) quest...
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
[2014]
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Summary
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a...
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Full title
What if? : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions / Randall Munroe.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-303).
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G 2014/5268
Record Identifier
74VKJ6koj3zX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKJ6koj3zX
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ISBN
9780544456860 (international pbk.)
0544272994 (hardback)
9780544272996 (hardback)
0544456866 (international pbk.)
DDC
500
MMS ID
991022108559702626
