How Everything Works: Making Physics Out of the Ordinary Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition
by Louis A. Bloomfield
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Key in two minutes on your microwave, and your popcorn mysteriously cooks. Press a button on your iPod, and you suddenly hear music. Turn a dial on your air conditioner and your sweltering bedroom becomes habitable.
When you stop to think, the ordinary technologies and natural phenomena all around us can seem quite extraordinary. Today's cars, computers, copy machines and other technologies may appear to operate according to some dark, unseen magic. But the truth is, fundamental physics principles can explain how every technology works- - no matter how jaw dropping or complex.
Now with Louis Bloomfield's "How Everything Works," you can get inside the seemingly inexplicable gizmos and gadgets that are part of the fabric of your everyday life, and understand the physics that makes them work. An acknowledged expert on physics as it applies to everyday life, Bloomfield uses fascinating and fun examples, along with a unique ability to explain challenging concepts, to bring the subject of physics to life.
As "How Everything Works" examines everything from roller coasters to radio, and knuckleballs to nuclear weapons, it 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.
Filled with intriguing insights, "How Everything Works" is nothing short of a user's manual for our everyday world. Even if you're not the kind of person who typically likes to take things apart to see what makes them work, you soon will be.
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- Title How Everything Works: Making Physics Out of the Ordinary
- Author Louis A. Bloomfield
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 736
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley, Hoboken, NJ
- Date August 24, 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780470170663 / 0470170662
- Weight 2.9 lbs (1.32 kg)
- Dimensions 10.96 x 8.56 x 0.93 in (27.84 x 21.74 x 2.36 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Physics
- Dewey Decimal Code 530
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