Authors:Niz, Ellen S.,
Publisher: Capstone Press
Keywords: facts, first, friction
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $21.26
ISBN-10: 0736854029
ISBN-13: 9780736854023
Provides an introduction to the concept of friction, and its characteristics. Includes an activity.
Author: Ernest Rabinowicz
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: materials, wear, friction
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1995-07-01
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0471830844
ISBN-13: 9780471830849
This second edition of a best selling title by a well know authority on the subject. The book presents the theory of mechanical surface interactions to explain the observed laws of friction, wear, adhesion, and boundary lubrication; also covers the properties of materials and the effect of varying conditions on those materials to facilitate the proper choice in design considerations. Updated to include recent and significant research findings of the last twenty years.
Author: Michael Shermer
Publisher: Holt Paperback
Keywords: unknown, meets, friction, science
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-12-27
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0805079149
ISBN-13: 9780805079142
A scientist pretends to be a psychic for a day-and fools everyone. An athlete discovers that good-luck rituals and getting into -the zone+ may, or may not, improve his performance. A son explores the possiblities of alternative and experimental medicine for his cancer-ravaged mother. And a skeptic realizes that it is time to turn the skeptical lens onto science itself. In each of the fourteen essays in Science Friction, bestselling author Michael Shermer explores the very personal barriers and biases that plague and propel science, especially when scientists push against the unknown. What do w
Author: Michael Shermer
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: unknown, meets, friction, science
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-01-05
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0805077081
ISBN-13: 9780805077087
Bestselling author Michael Shermer delves into the unknown, from heretical ideas about the boundaries of the universe to Star Trek’s lessons about chance and timeA scientist pretends to be a psychic for a day-and fools everyone. An athlete discovers that good-luck rituals and getting into "the zone" may, or may not, improve his performance. A historian decides to analyze the data to see who was truly responsible for the Bounty mutiny. A son explores the possiblities of alternative and experimental medicine for his cancer-ravaged mother. And a skeptic realizes that it is time to turn the
Author: Nathalie Parient
Publisher: Somogy
Keywords: friction, sciences, fontcuberta, joan
Number of Pages: 111
Published: 2005-05-26
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 2850568775
ISBN-13: 9782850568770
Author: Kenneth C Ludema
Publisher: CRC-Pre
Keywords: tribology, textbook, lubrication, wear, friction
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1996-04-15
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 0849326850
ISBN-13: 9780849326851
The result of Kenneth C Ludema’s 35 years of teaching and research, Friction, Wear, Lubrication: A Textbook in Tribology presents a broad view of the many aspects of tribology. All major aspects of this discipline are included, from mechanical to materials to chemical to mechanics. Ludema’s key research areas - marginally lubricated wear and friction - will be of special interest to readers who would like to find reliable and useful data on friction and wear rates.Written primarily as a text/reference, this informative volume describes how to solve design problems in friction and w
Author: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: connection, global, ethnography, friction
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2004-11-08
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 069112065X
ISBN-13: 9780691120652
A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action, effect. Challenging the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a "clash" of cultures, anthropologist Anna Tsing here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world. She focuses on one particular "zone of awkward engagement"--the rainforests of
