Background
Louis Aub Bloomfield was born on October 11, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He is the son of Daniel Kermit and Frances (Aub) Bloomfield.
Amherst College
Stanford University
Amherst College
Stanford University
University of Virginia
(A user's manual for our everyday world! "Whether a curiou...)
A user's manual for our everyday world! "Whether a curious layperson, a trained physicist, or a beginning physics student, most everyone will find this book an interesting and enlightening read and will go away comforted in that the world is not so strange and inexplicable after all." —From the Foreword by Carl Wieman, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2001, and CASE/Carnegie US University Professor of the Year 2004 If you didn't know better, you might think the world was filled with magic—from the household appliances that make our lives easier to the CDs and DVDs that fill our world with sounds and images. Even a simple light bulb can seem mysterious when you stop to think about it. Now in How Everything Works, Louis Bloomfield explains the physics behind the ordinary objects and natural phenomena all around us, and unravels the mysteries of how things work. Inside, you'll find easy-to-understand answers to scores of fascinating questions, including: How do microwave ovens cook food, and why does metal sometimes cause sparks in a microwave? How does an iPod use numbers to represent music? How do CDs and DVDs use light to convey information, and why are they so colorful? How can a CT or MRI image show a cross-sectional view of a person without actually entering the body? Why do golf balls have dimples? How does a pitcher make a curveball curve and knuckleball jitter about in an erratic manner? Why is the sun red at sunrise and sunset? How does a fluorescent lamp produce visible light? You don't need a science or engineering background to understand How Everything Works, all you need is an active curiosity about the extraordinary world all around you.
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2007
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How Things Work Fifth Edition uses familiar objects to introduce basic physics concepts, demonstrating the excitement and relevance to professionals in a variety of technical fields. Because its structure is defined by real-life examples, this book explores concepts as they are needed and then revisits them later on when they reappear in other objects. It integrates case studies throughout the chapters to easily convey an understanding and appreciation for physics. For example, discussions of skating, falling balls, and bumper cars are included to explain the Laws of Motion. Air conditioners and automobiles are used to explore thermodynamics. Engineers, architects, and professionals in other technical fields will benefit from the material that connects science to our everyday world.
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2009
Louis Aub Bloomfield was born on October 11, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He is the son of Daniel Kermit and Frances (Aub) Bloomfield.
Bloomfield graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's degree in 1979. He then obtained his doctorate from Stanford University in 1983.
Bloomfield was a postdoctoral fellow at AT&T Bell Laboratories until 1985, when he joined the faculty of the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of physics. He has been there ever since and now he holds the position of professor of physics.
Bloomfield also works extensively with professional societies and the media to explain physics to the general public and has appeared frequently on television and radio.
In 1991, Bloomfield decided to try teaching physics the way he originally learned physics: in the context of everyday things. He created a course called How Things Work and taught it to 92 students at the University of Virginia its first semester. He was hooked and evidently so were the students, because 261 of them took the course its second semester.
Since then, Bloomfield has taught physics to nearly ten thousand non-science students at the University. His course became an innovative introductory textbook entitled How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life, 5th Edition (Wiley, 2013) and that textbook became a more comprehensive trade book entitled How Everything Works: Making Physics Out of the Ordinary (Wiley, 2008). In addition to his books, Bloomfield is the author of more than 100 publications in the fields of atomic clusters, autoionizing states, high-resolution laser spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, computer science, and general science literacy.
(A user's manual for our everyday world! "Whether a curiou...)
2007(How Things Work Fifth Edition uses familiar objects to in...)
2009Bloomfield is a member of the American Physical Society, American Association of Physics Teacher and Sigma Xi.
Bloomfield married Karen Shatkin on August 28, 1983. The couple has 2 children, Elana and Aaron.
