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Spin : how the world (and almost everything in it) turns / Bill Gruber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gruber, William E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spin (Aerodynamics)--Popular works.
- Spin (Aerodynamics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Of gyroscopes and pitchers' mounds
- Toy story
- Around the house
- Amazing grace
- Interchapter I: A (very) short history of a metaphor
- A day at the ballpark
- Big wheels keep on turning
- Bullet points
- Interchapter II: Making iron come
- In the sky
- A descent into the maelstrom
- Really, really big and really, really small
- Coda: James Clerk Maxwell and the defenestration of cats.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781476651163 (electronic bk.)
- 1476651167 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99995322763
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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