5 Ergebnisse.

You are surrounded by stickiness. With every step you take, air molecules cling to you and slow you down, the effect is harder to ignore in water. When you hit the road, whether powered by pedal or engine, you rely on grip to keep you safe. The Post-it note and glue in your desk drawer. The non-stick pan on your stove. The fingerprints linked to your identity. The rumbling of the Earth deep beneath your feet, and the ice that transforms waterw...

An exploration of the amazing world of surface science from the author of Science and the City.In Sticky, physicist Laurie Winkless brings the amazing world of surface science to the popular science market for the first time. Atoms and molecules like to stick together--take friction, for example. This force keeps our cars on the road, trains on the tracks and our feet on the ground, similarly, anything moving through water or air encounters dr...

At the scale of atoms and molecules, things often like to stick together. But these tiny interactions don't just matter at the nanoscale, working together, they produce some important larger-scale forces. Like friction, for example: the force that keeps cars on the road, trains on the tracks and our feet on the ground, or drag, a phenomenon encountered by anything moving through water or air. In other words, there's a lot of stickiness happeni...

Keine Beschreibung.

A window into the hidden science and engineering that are the backbone and lifeblood of the city, now and in the future.