MOTION MOUNTAIN (The adventure of physics – vol.iii light, charges and brains

Аннотация

T his book series is for anybody who is curious about motion in nature. How dohings, people, animals, images and empty space move? The answer lead so many adventures, and this volume presents the best ones when exploring everything electric. Thy lead from the weighing of electric current to the use of magnetic filds to heal bone fractures and up to the use of light to cut metals and the understanding of the human brain. In the structure of physics, motion due to electricity is the most fascinating aspect of the starting point at the bottom. Indeed, almost everything around us is due to electric processes. Th present introduction to electricity, magnetism, light and the brain is the third of a six-volume overview of physics that arose from a threefold aim that I have pursued since 1990: to present motion in a way that is simple, up to date and captivating