The Simple Physics of Energy Use, Second Edition

This new edition examines three key aspects of energy use: environmental control in buildings, transportation of people and goods, and manufacturing. It provides a clear, big-picture perspective that highlights significant factors in understanding the physics of energy use.

About the author

Peter Rez was an undergraduate at Cambridge Univeristy and received his doctorate at Oxford Univeristy.  His expertise is in the physics of electron and X-ray scattering, mainly applied to electron microscopy and spectroscopy but also applied to radiation detectors and medical physics. He has also worked on modeling of battery and other materials.   This lead to work on normal biomineralization, the formation of calcite shells. He has also commented on issues where physics affects society at large, both in the deployment of X-ray based body scanners at airports (since abandoned) and more recently on energy policy and climate science.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Rez
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.10.2025
• EAN: 9780198948933
• ISBN: 978-0-19-894893-3
• Illustrations: 92 b/w and colour images
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Geophysics, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, SCIENCE / Physics / Geophysics, The environment, Science / Environmental Science, Atmospheric physics