num_pages: 212
description: This book reveals some of the stories behind how engineers use specific elements to create the material world around us. In eight chapters the EngineerGuy team exposes the magnificence of the innovation and engineering of digital camera imagers tiny accelerometers atomic clocks enriching fissile material batteries anodizing metals microwave ovens and lasers. To help readers of all backgrounds the book also includes introductions to the scientific principles necessary for a deeper understanding of the material presented in the chapters. The reader will be delighted by primers on waves nuclear structure and electronic transitions. It also features In depth sections on entropy semiconductors and the mathematics of capacitors.
language: English
title: Eight Amazing Engineering Stories: Using the Elements to Create Extraordinary Technologies
publisher: Articulate Noise Books