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How it All Works

All Scientific Laws and Phenomena: Illustrated & Demonstrated

Adam Dant Brian Clegg

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English
Quarto Books
01 October 2021
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.
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Imprint:   Quarto Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 216mm, 
ISBN:   9780711256781
ISBN 10:   0711256780
Pages:   160
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction 1 The Kitchen 2 The House 3 The Garden 4 The Science Museum 5 The Hospital 6 The Town Square 7 The Street 8 The Countryside 9 The Coastline 10 The Continent 11 The Earth 12 The Solar System 13 The Entire Universe! Reference Section Key figures Index of laws & phenomena  

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.

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