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Physics for Future Presidents
UC Berkeley
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2019 · score 1.0
A course by Richard Muller, originally taught at UC Berkeley, that uses back-of-the-envelope estimates to build quantitative intuition about energy, climate, and other real-world physics questions for non-specialists. Commenters describe its lectures as freely available online.
Commenters call it the best course or book for building intuition about energy and physics estimates, and describe it as very worthwhile.
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20062026
Pretty much just as unsuited. Even if a van has 3 times the area available to solar panels it's still a negligible amount of energy...
By the way, the best book and/or course I've read for building intuition for these kinds of questions is "Physics for Future Presidents" by Richard Muller. He used to teach it as a course at CMU and I believe the lecture series is still available to watch or listen to online. Very worthwhile.