Displaying 1 of 1 2007 Format: Book Author: Bloomfield, Louis. Title: How everything works : making physics out of the ordinary / Louis A. Bloomfield. Publisher, Date: Hoboken : Wiley, ©2007. Description: xvi, 720 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm Summary: Explains the physics of approximately sixty common items, including roller coasters, elevators, television, lasers, and musical instruments, as well as nuclear weapons and reactors. Subjects: Physics -- Popular works. Notes: Includes index. Contents: 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 -- 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. Web Site: Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description LCCN: 2006296744 ISBN: 9780470170663 0470170662 047174817X 9780471748175 Other Number: 63186159 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 184205 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 530 Bloomfie Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
