Physical science today Book

Assimov was one of 20 contributors. What happens when the nonscientist plunges into the study of physical science? Too often he discovers that he has entered a different and seemingly alien world with very little preparation for coping with it. Even the language is new and strange: inclined planes, vectors, valence... ORBITAL quantum numbers(!); He approaches the whole thing with trepidation because he KNOWS it is going to be awful. That is why the people who joined together to work on "Physical Science Today" decided to approach the subject in a somewhat unconventional manner. The book does not begin abruptly with a classification of all the facts and figures of science, nor does it start out with a jolting panorama of idealized situations. It begins instead with simple pictures of matter, of atoms, of light- pictures that are ways of organizing our thoughts about the physical world.