The Isaac Newton School of Driving: Physics and your car by Barry Parker, Johns Hopkins University Press, $26.95, ISBN 0801874173 Reviewed by Jonathan Beard
BARRY Parker grew up around his dad’s garage, taught physics at a university for 30 years, and now has become a busy populariser of science. The Isaac Newton School of Driving is his attempt to teach physics to a general audience by using cars – every American owns at least one – as his syllabus.
This idea works surprisingly well – cars and driving involve everything from magnetism to momentum – but ultimately crashes due to overload. It…
