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Why do baseballs have dimples?How does an iPod change binary numbers into Bon Jovi?How do microwave ovens cook?How does a pitcher make a curveball curve and a knuckleball jitter?Why do not you fall-off an upside down roller-coaster?If one did not know better, one might think the world was packed with magic—from your family appliances that make our lives more straightforward to the products that fill our world with sounds and pictures. A basic bulb may appear mystical when you're unaware concerning the technology behind it.Now in How Everything Functions, Louis Bloomfield takes you within the incredible devices and devices that are area of the fabric of our daily existence, detailing the physics that makes them function. Analyzing everything from roller coasters to stereo, knuckleballs to atomic weapons, How Everything Works shows the answers to these questions as why the sky is orange, why steel is just a issue in microwave ovens, how MRIs notice inside you, and why some garments demand dried cleaning.You do not desire a technology or engineering background to comprehend How Everything Works. All you require is definitely an active fascination with the world all around you.