Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (976 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00LOMPF5S |
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| Number of Pages | : | 473 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Profound, funny, and exhilarating kingmidasnreverse I purchased this book because it's my first year teaching 5th-grade science and I wanted to flesh out my curriculum with some interesting facts. What I encountered was so much more. Dr. Miodownik writes beautifully, explaining complex scientific processes in entertaining, humorous, and even deeply touching ways. I never conceived of the poetry behind the manufacture of steel, concrete, and glass. Plastic, which is so terribly maligned (justifiably, in many cases), nevertheless has an utterly fascinating and dramatic hist. Engaging introduction to many of the critical materials we use in everyday life Stuff Matters gives the reader a glimpse into the engineering and properties of many of the critical materials that we encounter in day to day life. Mark Miodownik is professors of material and society at UCL and introduces the reader gently to his expertise leaving them with a newfound appreciation for physics, engineering and chemistry. The book is highly readable and engaging and gives an excellent introduction to a subject we should all know about.Stuff Matters picks several materials that are all contained in the su. When getting back-stabbed works out for the best “As I stood on a train bleeding from what would later be classified as a thirteen-centimeter stab wound, I wondered what to do… (The incident) was the birth of my obsession with materials – starting with steel.” – from STUFF MATTERSAs a schoolboy in 1985, STUFF MATTERS author Mark Miodownik was stabbed while in the London Tube by an assailant wielding a razor blade. Later, seeing a razor’s edge glinting in the fluorescent lights of the local police station, Mark was launched into a li
A globally renowned materials scientist, Miodownik has spent his life exploring objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as concrete cloth, uncovering the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world. Full of enthralling tales of the miracles of engineering that permeate our lives, Stuff Matters will make you see stuff in a whole new way.. From the teacup to the jet engine, the silicon chip to the paper clip, the plastic in our appliances to the elastic in our underpants, our lives are overflowing with materials. Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik is constantly asking himself