Bloomfield L.A. How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life

6th Edition. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016. – 511 p. – ISBN: 1118994353How Things Work provides an accessible introduction to physics for the non-science student. Like the previous editions it employs everyday objects, with which students are familiar, in case studies to explain the most essential physics concepts of day-to-day life. Lou Bloomfield takes seemingly highly complex devices and strips away the complexity to show how at their heart are simple physics ideas. Once these concepts are understood, they can be used to understand the behavior of many devices encountered in everyday life. The sixth edition uses the power of WileyPLUS Learning Space with Orion to give students the opportunity to actively practice the physics concepts presented in this edition.The Laws of Motion, Part 1
The Laws of Motion, Part 2
Mechanical Objects Part 1
Mechanical Objects Part 2
Fluids
Fluids and Motion
Heat and Phase Transitions
Thermodynamics
Resonance and Mechanical Waves
Electricity
Magnetism and Electrodynamics
Electromagnetic Waves
Light
Optics and Electronics
Modern Physics
Appendices
Vectors
Units, Conversion of Units