LibGuides: Physics: How Things Work: Home

Websites

How Stuff Works
Physics.org
This website allows you to search for other physics websites. Be sure and evaluate any website that you find.
Explain That Stuff
Has an A-Z listing of various everyday things.
Physics Classroom
Covers many physics principles.
Physclips
Engine Website by Matt Keveny
This website is good for information about engines.

Physics

Albert Einstein

Print Resources

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology by McGraw-Hill Staff
Call Number: R 503 MCG (1-20 volumes)
ISBN: 9780071441438
Publication Date: 2007-05-27
How Things Work by Louis A. Bloomfield
Call Number: 600 BLO
ISBN: 9780471468868
Publication Date: 2005-10-07
The Way Things Work by Chris Oxlade
Call Number: 600 WAY
ISBN: 0754815048
Publication Date: 2004-12-07
The New Way Things Work by David MacAulay; Neil Ardley (Contribution by)
Call Number: 600 MAC
ISBN: 0395938473
Publication Date: 1998-10-26
A Field Guide to Household Technology by Ed Sobey
Call Number: 683.8 SOB
ISBN: 9781556526701
Publication Date: 2007-04-01
The New Encyclopedia of Science by Michael Allaby (Editor); Jill Bailey; Stuart Clark; John O. E. Clark
Call Number: R 503 NEW
ISBN: 019521918x
Publication Date: 2003-11-06
How Things Work by Louis A. Bloomfield
ISBN: 9780471468868
Publication Date: 2005-10-07
Cool Stuff and How It Works by Chris Woodford; James Flint; Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff; Ben Morgan; Clint Witchalls; Luke Collins
Call Number: 600 COO
ISBN: 9780756614652
Publication Date: 2005-10-17
New How Things Work by John Langone
Call Number: 600 LAN
ISBN: 079226956X
Publication Date: 2004-09-14
Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries by Rodney Carlisle; Scientific American Staff
Call Number: 609 CAR
ISBN: 0471244104
Publication Date: 2004-08-01
The Works of Man by Ronald Clark
Call Number: 609 CLA
ISBN: 0670804835
Publication Date: 1985-09-10
They All Laughed... by Ira Flatow
Call Number: 609 FLA
ISBN: 006016445X
Publication Date: 1992-07-01
The Science of Everything by National Geographic Editors; David Pogue (Foreword by)
Call Number: 500 NAT
ISBN: 9781426211683
Publication Date: 2013-10-29

Library Databases

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Science Online offers expansive reference coverage of the full range of scientific disciplines through extensive essays, videos, diagrams, definitions, interactives, and experiments.

Gale eBooks: "Applied Science"& "Scientific Thought"

Potential Topics

“How Things Work”

Explaining the Physics of Everyday Things

speakers
microwave oven
camera
wind turbine
medical imaging
mechanical clock
radio
color television tube
piano
Foucault pendulum
telephone
guitar
touch pad
escalator
smart watch
aerosol spray can
electric car
theater colored spot lights
garage door opener
refracting telescope
eyeglasses
optical scanner
laser
video camera
color printer
bumper cars
woodwind instrument
compact disk
Xerox machine
air conditioner
laptop computer
toaster
refrigerator
roller coaster
global positioning system
radar detector
smoke detector
elevator
hybrid car engines
electric doorbell
compact fluorescent lamp
electric generator
carousel
glider / airfoil

More Print Resources

Architecture by Neil Stevenson
Call Number: 720 STE
ISBN: 0789419653
Publication Date: 1997-09-22
The Way Science Works by Robin Kerrod; Sharon Ann Holgate; Jayne Parsons (Editor)
Call Number: 600 KER
ISBN: 9780789485625
Publication Date: 2002-04-12
The Engines of Our Ingenuity by John H. Lienhard
Call Number: 303.483 LIE
ISBN: 0195135830
Publication Date: 2000-06-29