Discovering Energy - Sanz Verónica
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"Creating and harnessing energy is a fundamental part of enabling life to exist and thrive on earth. [This book explains that] energy comes in a vast array of different forms: using our muscles and those of other creatures, enabling us to move, lift, etc.; creating heat and steam through fire; capturing the power of the wind in a ship's sails or to turn the blades of a wind turbine; harnessing the power of moving water to generate electricity in a hydroelectric power station; applying the forces of magnetism to turn an electric motor; using solar panels to transfer the sun's energy into electricity for our home"--Publisher marketing.…mehr

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"Creating and harnessing energy is a fundamental part of enabling life to exist and thrive on earth. [This book explains that] energy comes in a vast array of different forms: using our muscles and those of other creatures, enabling us to move, lift, etc.; creating heat and steam through fire; capturing the power of the wind in a ship's sails or to turn the blades of a wind turbine; harnessing the power of moving water to generate electricity in a hydroelectric power station; applying the forces of magnetism to turn an electric motor; using solar panels to transfer the sun's energy into electricity for our home"--Publisher marketing.
Autorenporträt
Verónica Sanz is Professor of Physics at the University of Sussex, UK. She has worked at Harvard, Yale, Boston and Durham universities, as well as her hometown university in Valencia, Spain. She was a Fulbright fellow at Harvard and Marie Curie fellow at Yale and she has been awarded a Large Hadron Collider-Theory initiative prize.