Why icebergs float exploring science in everyday life
From paintings and food to illness and icebergs, science is happening everywhere. Rather than follow the path of a syllabus or textbook, Andrew Morris takes examples from the science we see every day and uses them as entry points to explain a number of fundamental scientific concepts – from understa...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
UCL Press
2016.
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| Colección: | Open Access e-Books
Knowledge Unlatched |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421998506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. Foods we love and hate
- 2. Why old masters fade
- 3. Cuts are red, veins are blue . . .
- 4. The dual nature of light
- 5. Models
- 6. How we see
- 7. The brain
- 8. Hormones
- 9. Reflections on molecules and the body
- 10. Bacteria, viruses and antibiotics
- 11. Floating and density
- 12. Tides and gravity
- 13. Energy
- 14. Energy on the move
- 15. Energy for life
- 16. Electricity
- 17. MRI and the brain
- 18. Animal culture
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Atoms, elements and molecules.
