Jearl Walker

Jearl Walker Dalton ( born January 20, 1945 in Pensacola ( Florida)) is an American physicist, known as non-fiction author and former columnist for Scientific American magazine.

Walker grew up in Fort Worth and studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where in 1967 he earned his bachelor 's degree. In 1973 he earned his doctorate at the University of Maryland. He teaches since 1973, first as Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor and since 1981. Professor of physics at Cleveland State University, from 1985 to 1989 he was Chairman of the Physics Faculty For his teaching, he has won several awards at the university ( a price Jearl Walker Outstanding Teaching Award is named there in the future for him, he is the first winner in 2005 ). He is best known for his book Flying Circus of Physics, which first appeared in 1975, and physics - columns (Amateur Scientist ) in the well-known popular science magazine Scientific American, which he oversaw from 1978 to 1988 ( from 152 columns emerged several books ). 1977 to 1990 he was on the editorial board of Scientific American. He also worked from 1990, the new edition of Halliday Resnick ( by David Halliday and Robert Resnick ), a well-known in the U.S. importing ( richly illustrated ) Physics textbook. He is in the United States on television known for spectacular demonstrations of experiments, for example on the Tonight Show from Johnny Carson and in his own PBS series Kinetic Karnival.

Asked In the book The Flying Circus of Physics are presented numerous physical phenomena and everyday explanations ( the solutions are in a response section of the book ).

He has been married since 1984 and has four children.

Writings

  • The Flying Circus of Physics. ( Original title: The Flying Circus of Physics, translated by Karen Lippert and Micaela Warrior Hauwede ) 9, expanded edition. Oldenbourg, München 2007 ( first edition 1977), ISBN 978-3-486-58067-9
  • By David Halliday, Robert Resnick: Physics, ( Original title: Fundamentals of physics ) 2nd expanded edition, Wiley -VCH, Weinheim, 2007, ISBN 3-527-40746-4.
  • A kink in the optical entertaining experiments from Scientific American, Fischer Taschenbuch 1992
  • A ball with a twist - fun experiments from Scientific American, Fischer Taschenbuch 1990
  • Roundabout: the physics of rotation in the everyday world- Readings from Scientific American, Freeman 1985
  • Publisher: Light and its uses: making and using lasers, holograms, interferometers, and instruments of dispersion, Readings from Scientific American, Freeman 1980
  • Publisher: Light from the sky - Readings from Scientific American. Freeman 1980
  • Physics of everyday phenomena - Readings from Scientific American. Freeman 1979
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