How Everything Works : Making Physics Out of the Ordinary
ISBN: 9780470170663 | 0470170662
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley
Pub. Date: 8/28/2007
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Why do golf balls have dimples? How does an iPod turn binary digits into Bon Jovi? How do microwave ovens cook? How does a pitcher make a curveball curve and a knuckleball jitter? Why don't you fall off an upside-down roller coaster? If one didn't know better, one might think the world was filled with magic-from the household appliances that make our lives easier to the devices that fill our world with sounds and images. Even a simple light bulb can seem mysterious when you're clueless about the science behind it. Now in How Everything Works, L... MORE
| Things That Move | |
| More Things That Move | |
| Mechanical Things | |
| More Mechanical Things | |
| Things Involving Fluids | |
| Things That Move With Fluids | |
| Thermal Things | |
| Things That Work With Heat | |
| Things With Resonances and Mechanical Waves | |
| Electric Things | |
| Magnetic and Electromagnetic Things | ... MORE|
| Electronic Things | |
| Things That Use Electromagnetic Waves | |
| Things That Involve Light | |
| Optical Things | |
| Things That Use Recent Physics | |
| Things That Involve Materials | |
| Things That Involve Chemical Physics | |
| Relevant Mathematics | |
| Units, Conversion of Units | |
| Glossary | |
| Photo Credits | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
No one is better at making physics come to life than Louis Bloomfield. Widely recognized for his teaching of physics and science to non-science students at the University of Virginia, Professor Bloomfield is the co-host of the Discovery Channel television show “Some Assembly Required,” premiering in the fall of 2007.
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