How it All Works

All scientific laws and phenomena illustrated & demonstrated

How it All Works
Brian Clegg, Adam Dant
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Hardback
h216 x 216mm - 160pg
28 Sep 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780711256781
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The Universe is inconceivably complex. Its component parts though follow a set of unbreakable laws that have somehow been coded into their very fabric since the beginning of time. These laws play out in different ways at different scales, giving rise to the familiar phenomena of everyday life - as well as the unfamiliar abstract goings-on outside our experience and awareness. Understanding these laws may seem a daunting task, until now. How it All Works illustrates simply how the most interesting and complex named scientific laws and phenomena affect everyone' s daily lives. Using hyper-detailed scene illustrations from the incredible Adam Dant, we start small, with the illustrated science inside your kitchen, before expanding outwards to encompass your garden, street, city, continent, planet, solar system, galaxy and eventually the whole universe. From Kirchoff' s Law affecting how you charge your phone, through to Newton' s Law of Cooling making your coffee just the right temperature to drink, all the way to quantum tunnelling influencing the nuclear fusion in our sun, to Wien' s Law determining its colour. This book will astound and inform in equal measure, with each principle drawn into the scene and explained with clarity by leading science writer Brian Clegg.
Adam Dant is an internationally known and collected artist whose work is in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, MoMa, The Musee d' Art Contemporain Lyons, DeutscheBank, and in many leading private collections including that of Charles, Prince of Wales. He has exhibited at Tate Modern, the Hayward Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Arts among many others, and is the winner of the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Brian Clegg read Natural Sciences, focusing on experimental physics, at Cambridge University. After developing hi-tech solutions for British Airways, he formed a creative consultancy advising clients ranging from the BBC to the Met Office. He has written for numerous publications including Nature, the Times, the Wall Street Journal, and has lectured at Oxford and Cambridge universities and the Royal Institution. He is editor of the book review site www. popularscience. co. uk, and his publications include A Brief History of Infinity and How to Build a Time Machine.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780711256781
Published: 28 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: The Ivy Press
Publisher: The Ivy Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 216mm
Pages: 160

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