Driving Force: The Natural Magic of MagnetsHarvard University Press, 1996 - 311 pagina's Driving Force unfolds the long and colorful history of magnets: how they guided (or misguided) Columbus; mesmerized eighteenth-century Paris but failed to fool Benjamin Franklin; lifted AC power over its rival, DC, despite all the animals, one human among them, executed along the way; led Einstein to the theory of relativity; helped defeat Hitler's U-boats; inspired writers from Plato to Dave Barry. In a way that will delight and instruct even the nonmathematical among us, James Livingston shows us how scientists today are creating magnets and superconductors that can levitate high-speed trains, produce images of our internal organs, steer high-energy particles in giant accelerators, and--last but not least--heat our morning coffee. |
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A Magical Force | 1 |
Paper Clips and Refrigerators | 3 |
James Bond and Jaws | 4 |
Hidden Magnets | 8 |
Facts about the Force | 10 |
Romancing the Stones | 13 |
Loving Stones | 14 |
Inside the Loving Stones | 17 |
Thanks for the Memories | 139 |
Bugs and Bits | 145 |
A Future in Films | 149 |
Up with Magnets | 154 |
Maglev | 156 |
Bearing Up | 161 |
Flying Trains | 165 |
Magnets at War | 173 |
Romancing from Afar | 22 |
Looking for Lodestones | 23 |
A Magnetic Love Song | 24 |
Magnus Magnes | 27 |
Reading the Rocks | 33 |
Undercurrents | 38 |
Cosmic Currents | 40 |
Biocompasses | 42 |
Supermagnets | 46 |
The Elements of Things | 48 |
Improving on Lodestones | 50 |
Better and Bitter Electromagnets | 58 |
Microthings and Megathings | 61 |
Superconducting Magnets | 65 |
The Big Chill | 68 |
Superconductors and Ohmless Electromagnets | 69 |
Big and Little Science | 73 |
The Woodstock of Physics | 82 |
Inside Magnets and Superconductors | 85 |
The Magnetic Domain | 88 |
Harder and Softer | 95 |
Hard Superconductors | 102 |
Attractors Movers and Shakers | 106 |
Attractors | 107 |
Movers | 113 |
Shakers Woofers and Tweeters | 117 |
AC RF TV and EAS | 123 |
Catching the Waves | 129 |
Catching the Crooks | 132 |
Improving on Iron | 134 |
Hunting for Red October | 176 |
Magnetrons and Radar | 178 |
Calutrons and Little Boy | 183 |
Magnets at Play | 187 |
Magnets in Fiction | 193 |
Magnets of Magic | 196 |
Supersenses | 200 |
Mesmerism and Magnetic in Fiction | 202 |
Animal Magnetism | 204 |
Mineral Magnetism | 210 |
Medicine and MRI | 218 |
Personal Images | 224 |
Nuclear Magnets | 227 |
Masnetic Resonance | 229 |
The Imaging Technology | 232 |
Magnets for MRI | 233 |
Biomagnetism | 239 |
The Magnetic Mind | 243 |
Killer Gauss? | 246 |
The Birds and Bees | 250 |
Source of the Force | 255 |
Alice and the Red Queen | 261 |
Dave Barry and Virtual Effluvium | 265 |
Pulling It Together | 270 |
Wonders of the World | 280 |
Sources and Suggested Readings | 285 |
Acknowledgments | 299 |
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