The Spinning Magnet : The Electromagnetic Force That Created the Modern World--And Could Destroy It.
Alanna. Mitchell
Bok Engelsk 2018 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Dutton
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (286 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface | Playing with the Universe -- Part I | Magnet -- Chapter 1 | The Beginnings of Things -- Chapter 2 | The Unpaired Spinning Electron -- Chapter 3 | Parking in the Shadow of Magnetism's Forgotten Man -- Chapter 4 | Into Whose Embrace Iron Leaps -- Chapter 5 | Revolutions on Paper -- Chapter 6 | The Earth's Magnetic Soul -- Chapter 7 | Voyage into the Underworld -- Chapter 8 | The Greatest Scientific Undertaking the World Had Ever Seen -- Chapter 9 | The Rock That Turned the World Upside Down -- Part II | Current -- Chapter 10 | Experiment in Copenhagen -- Chapter 11 | A Very Intimate Relationship -- Chapter 12 | Jars Full of Lightning -- Chapter 13 | The Apothecary's Son -- Chapter 14 | The Bookbinder's Apprentice -- Chapter 15 | Magnets Making Currents -- Chapter 16 | The Lines That Fill the Air -- Part III | Core -- Chapter 17 | The Contorting Gyre -- Chapter 18 | Shocks Inside the Earth -- Chapter 19 | Pharaohs, Fairies, and a Tar-Paper Shack -- Chapter 20 | Zebra Skins Under the Sea -- Chapter 21 | At the Outer Edge of the Dynamo -- Chapter 22 | Anomaly to the South -- Chapter 23 | The Worst Physics Movie Ever -- Chapter 24 | The Great Hazardous Spinning Sphere of Sodium -- Part IV | Switch -- Chapter 25 | Looking Up -- Chapter 26 | Horrors the Lights Foretold -- Chapter 27 | Lethal Patches -- Chapter 28 | The Cost of Catastrophe -- Chapter 29 | Trout Noses and Pigeon Beaks -- Chapter 30 | A Suit of Stiff Black Crayon -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author.
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| ISBN | 1-101-98518-6
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