Professor Chainikov's Lectures

You don’t have to learn physics with a serious face—you can do it with a smile! Tell the truth: do words that sound like “capacitor” scare you? Do you know what a diode looks like? Do you get jittery at sound vibrations? Can you distinguish negatively charged particles from positive ones? Can you describe electric current or answer the question “What is sound?”… If you can confidently say “yes,” then you’re a physicist. If you’re scratching the back of your head, mumbling something, and looking away, then you’re a student of middle or high school—and you absolutely need to read the bright story by Eduard Uspensky, “Lectures from Professor Chaynikov.” It will help you sort it all out. And not just sort it out, but also enjoy reading and the sparkling fun that reigns on these pages!

The comments to Professor Chaynikov’s lectures (for the most advanced and nitpicky readers) about various physical phenomena and concepts were written by a real physicist, Dmitry Dryablov, and the whole story was illustrated in drawings by artist Ekaterina Muratova. For middle and high school age.