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Driving Force

Autor James D Livingston
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 apr 1997
Driving Force unfolds the long and colorful history of magnets: how they guided (or misguided) Columbus; mesmerized eighteenth-century Paris but failed to fool Benjamin Franklin; lifted AC power over its rival, DC, despite all the animals, one human among them, executed along the way; led Einstein to the theory of relativity; helped defeat Hitler's U-boats; inspired writers from Plato to Dave Barry. In a way that will delight and instruct even the nonmathematical among us, James Livingston shows us how scientists today are creating magnets and superconductors that can levitate high-speed trains, produce images of our internal organs, steer high-energy particles in giant accelerators, and--last but not least--heat our morning coffee.
From the "new" science of materials to everyday technology, Driving Force makes the workings of magnets a matter of practical wonder. The book will inform and entertain technical and nontechnical readers alike and will give them a clearer sense of the force behind so much of the working world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780674216457
ISBN-10: 0674216458
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 156 x 223 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Revised edition
Editura: Harvard University Press
Locul publicării:United States

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James D. Livingston