The 2nd edition of Louis A. Bloomfield's textbook for the course "How Things Work" is published by John Wiley & Sons. This book examines objects in our everyday world and serves both as a comprehensive introduction to physics and as a guide to how many of the objects around us work. It is intended as a text for liberal arts students in a one or two semester survey course. What makes this essentially non-mathematical text unusual is that it begins with the objects and looks within them for the concepts of physics. It is first and foremost a book about those objects.
How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life, 2nd Edition
Louis A. Bloomfield
ISBN 0-471-38151-9, 512 pages, full-color, paperback |
