Spin : How the World (and Almost Everything in It) Turns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gruber, Bill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spin (Aerodynamics)--Popular works.

Spin (Aerodynamics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

""Everywhere, things spin-wheels turn, motors hum, tornadoes roar. This book explains the history and basic physics of spinning objects, from yo-yos, drills, propellers, and washing machines, to ballet dancers, dust devils, and bacteria. The book gives instructive, entertaining accounts of everyday sights: Does a curve ball really curve? Why do figure skaters tuck in their arms? Can you make a disposable pen fly? How does a falling cat always land on its feet? Answers to these questions (and many others) tell the amazing story of things that spin."-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Introduction: Of Gyroscopes and Pitchers' Mounds

1. Toy Story

2. Around the House

3. Amazing Grace

Interchapter I: A (Very) Short History of a Metaphor

4. A Day at the Ballpark

5. Big Wheels Keep on Turning

6. Bullet Points

Interchapter II: Making Iron Come

7. In the Sky

8. A Descent into the Maelstrom

9. Really, Really Big and Really, Really Small

Coda: James Clerk Maxwell and the Defenestration of Cats

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Gruber, Bill Spin

ISBN:

1-4766-5116-7

OCLC:

1410591516