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How many times have you heard someone say (possibly one of your children…) that a particular subject at school is not relevant to them personally? In this book, author Helen Czerski attempts to show us how physics affects everyday life. It will make a great gift to the scientifically inclined teen or adult.more Physics for everyday life is a book that will put the sparkle in your eye, if you are one of those people who look around, observe and love to know Why.
Storm in a teacup the physics of everyday life full#
This book is full of little anecdotes that bring the information alive in one`s mind. It is rare to see a scientist write with such gusto and appeal. This is truly a marvelous, witty and entertaining book. It will make a great gift to the scientifically inclined teen Standing ovation. She provides answers to vexing questions: How do ducks keep their feet warm when walking on ice? Why does it take so long for ketchup to come out of a bottle? Why does milk, when added to tea, look like billowing storm clouds? In an engaging voice at once warm and witty, Czerski shares her stunning breadth of knowledge to lift the veil of familiarity from the ordinary.more Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking ordinary objects and occurrences, like popcorn popping, coffee stains, and fridge magnets, to big ideas like climate change, the energy crisis, or innovative medical testing.
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She pro Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski’s lively, entertaining, and informed introduction to the world of physics.
She is also a columnist for Focus magazine, shortlisted for PPA columnist of the year in 2014, and has written numerous articles for national newspapers.Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski’s lively, entertaining, and informed introduction to the world of physics.
Storm in a teacup the physics of everyday life series#
Helen regularly presents BBC programmes on physics, the ocean and the atmosphere – recent series include Colour: The Spectrum of Science, Orbit, Operation Iceberg, Super Senses, Dara O’Briain’s Science Club, as well as programmes on bubbles, the sun and our weather. As a physicist she studies the bubbles underneath breaking waves in the open ocean to understand their effects on weather and climate. She is a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at University College London. Read Storm in a Teacup and you will see and understand the world as you never did before. Linking what makes popcorn pop to Antarctic winds, coffee stains to blood tests or ketchup bottles to aliens in space, every thread you pull in the fabric of everyday life shows you something new about the intricate patterns of our world. Not so, insists Helen Czerski – and in this sparkling new book she explores the patterns and connections that illustrate the grandest theories in the smallest everyday objects and experiences. In an age of string theory, fluid dynamics and biophysics, it can seem as if the science of our world is only for specialists and academics. What is it that helps both scorpions and cyclists to survive? What do raw eggs and gyroscopes have in common? And why does it matter? Just as Freakonomics brought economics to life, so Storm in a Teacup brings physics into our daily lives and makes it fascinating.
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