How Everything Works - Louis A. Bloomfield

How Everything Works

Making Physics Out of the Ordinary
Buch | Softcover
736 Seiten
2007
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-470-17066-3 (ISBN)
45,96 inkl. MwSt
By explaining the physics behind ordinary objects, this book unravels the mysteries of how things work. Using familiar examples from everyday life and modern technology, this book explains the seemingly inexplicable phenomena we encounter all around us. As it examines everything from roller coasters to radio, musical instruments to makeup, and knuckleballs to nuclear weapons, How Everything Works provides the answers to such questions as why the sky is blue, why metal is a problem in microwave ovens, and why some clothes require dry cleaning. With fascinating and fun real-life examples that provide the answers to scores of questions, How Everything Works is nothing short of a user's manual to our everyday world.

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.

Chapter 1. Things That Move. Chapter 2. More Things That Move.

Chapter 3. Mechanical Things.

Chapter 4. More Mechanical Things.

Chapter 5. Things Involving Fluids.

Chapter 6. Things That Move With Fluids.

Chapter 7. Thermal Things.

Chapter 8. Things That Work With Heat.

Chapter 9. Things With Resonances and Mechanical Waves.

Chapter 10. Electric Things.

Chapter 11. Magnetic and Electromagnetic Things.

Chapter 12. Electronic Things.

Chapter 13. Things That Use Electromagnetic Waves.

Chapter 14. Things That Involve Light.

Chapter 15. Optical Things.

Chapter 16. Things That Use Recent Physics.

Chapter 17. Things That Involve Materials.

Chapter 18. Things That Involve Chemical Physics.

Appendix A. Relevant Mathematics.

Appendix B. Units, Conversion of Units.

Glossary.

Photo Credits.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.10.2007
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 208 x 274 mm
Gewicht 1429 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Naturwissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie
ISBN-10 0-470-17066-2 / 0470170662
ISBN-13 978-0-470-17066-3 / 9780470170663
Zustand Neuware
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