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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life

byHelen Czerski

Physicist Helen Czerski uses familiar experiences—stirring tea, popping popcorn, magnetism, waves, bubbles, and spinning objects—to explain the principles organizing the physical world. Each household observation opens into larger systems such as weather, oceans, engines, biology, and planetary motion. The book emphasizes patterns and connections rather than equations, showing that everyday life contains the same physics operating across enormous scales. Czerski invites readers to treat kitchens and streets as laboratories, replacing the idea that physics is remote or abstract with a practical way of noticing why ordinary things behave as they do.

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

Jan 23, 2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

288

ISBN

9780393355475