How Everything Works Making Physics Out of the Ordinary

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.

Louis A. Bloomfield is Professor of Physics at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Virginia</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. He also works extensively with professional societies and the media to explain physics to the general public. He maintains a website where he answers a wide range of questions on physics. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bloomfield</st1:place></st1:City> received his Ph.D. from Stanford and was a postdoctoral fellow at AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories. <st1:City w:st="on">Bloomfield</st1:City> has been widely recognized for his teaching of physics and science to thousands of non-science students at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Virginia</st1:PlaceName> and is the recipient of a 1998 State of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award</st1:place></st1:State> and the 2001 Pegram Medal of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society. He is the author of almost 100 publications in the fields of atomic clusters, autoionizing states, high-resolution laser spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, computer science, and general science literacy, and of the successful introductory textbook <i>How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life, 3rd Edition</i> (Wiley 2006).