Helen Czerski's engaging debut book seeks to demystify physics in everyday life, so whether you know your refraction from your reflection, or find the entire subject incomprehensible, this should be an invaluable primer. Czerski brings our humdrum everyday world to life, showing us that it is just as fascinating as anything that can be seen by the Hubble Telescope or created at the large Hadron Collider.-Jim Al-Khalili, author of Life on the Edge If physics has ever been an intimidating topic for you, you are going to. Robert Hooke would have loved it.-John GribbinĪ delightful book on the joys and universality of physics. Well be reading Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski. an ideal gift for any scientifically inquisitive person, including children or adults who retain a child's sense of wonder. hy not learn some simple physics so that you can try to puzzle things out for yourself?Įxcellent. In an age when any questions we have about the workings of the world are instantly answerable via Google, physicist Czerski pushes us to resist the search engine. Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking Czerski has a remarkable knack for finding scientific wonders under every rock, alongside every raindrop, and inside every grain of sand. Storm in a Teacup is a course in physics, but it's less like a classroom than a long walk with a patient, charming, and very, very learned friend. It's a wonderful way to discover the hidden scientific connections behind the ordinary and everyday.-Hannah Fry, author of Hello World Helen invites you in to see the world through her eyes and understand how a physicist think. This book is charming, accessible and enthusiastic. 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. 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. Thanks to Helen's brilliantly engaging book you'll never consider anything to be mundane or ordinary again.Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski's lively, entertaining, and richly informed introduction to the world of physics. The written equivalent of a spectrum beaming out from a prism. "Helen Czerski has a remarkable knack for finding scientific wonders under every rock, alongside every raindrop, and inside every grain of sand. " has a formidable knack for explaining mind-bending concepts in easy-to-understand language the book to read this week." "In a friendly, chatty style that includes anecdotes from her personal and professional life, Czerski manages to make spilled coffee fascinating tree growth astonishing telecommunications intuitive." The little fascinations we left behind in childhood are but her jumping-off points for the really, really big picture Hers if the kind of self-assured, endearing nerdishness that doesn't wait to see if you're on board: she pulls you along, anticipating your head-scratching at every fluorescing scorpion and swirling drop of milk in your teacup." 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. "Helen Czerski's absorbing Storm in a Teacup stands head and shoulders above other popular science books. Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski’s lively, entertaining, and richly informed introduction to the world of physics. It's a wonderful way to discover the hidden scientific connections behind the ordinary and everyday." Helen invites you in to see the world through a her eyes and understand how a physicist thinks. "This book is charming, accessible and enthusiastic. Fun, fascinating and brilliantly well written – 'Right there, in my teacup, I can see the storm.' Me too and I know what it is now." It is rare that someone can explain that which seems endlessly complex and makes you feel like in fact you'd understood it all along. It'll carry you gently to the peak and show you how stunning and beautiful the view is. "If you've ever felt like understanding how things work is just too big a mountain to climb then read this book. Czerski's enthusiasm is infectious because she brings our humdrum everyday world to life, showing us that it is just as fascinating as anything that can be seen by the Hubble Telescope or created at the Large Hadron Collider." "A quite delightful book on the joys, and universality, of physics.
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