Everyday Physics: Unusual Insights into Familiar Things

Everyday Physics is a physics book that explains complex concepts in simple terms, with clear explanations and colorful photos. It is perfect for anyone with a healthy dose of curiosity and features intriguing home experiments to further demonstrate the explanations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 02 September 2021
Publisher: UIT Cambridge LTD

Fascinating, fun, and friendly, this physics book is perfect for anyone with a healthy dose of curiosity. How can you tell where a sound is coming from? What is the human energy equivalent of a vacuum cleaner? How does GPS work? Why do eggs explode in the microwave? Is there a vacuum inside double-glazed windows? Can you get less wet by cycling faster?

With clear explanations and hundreds of colorful photos and diagrams, Everyday Physics is an engaging physics book accessible for all ages. You can read this brilliant book in whatever order you want, dipping in and out of the different sections. Based on Hermanns Everyday Physics lecture series, it combines deep physical insights with back-of-the-envelope calculations, relating abstract physics concepts to the real world, often in a surprising way. Everyday Physics also features lots of intriguing home experiments to further demonstrate the explanations. Most of these can be done using simple items from the kitchen, such as using a glass of water, a torch, and a few drops of milk to understand why the sky is blue and the setting sun red. If you want to dig a bit deeper, there are extra resources in the shaded boxes throughout. Whether you're a parent, grandparent, college student, or just have a healthy interest in the world around you, this book will bring the magic of physics to your everyday life. Once you discover the beauty of science, ordinary things will become extraordinary.

Weight: 638g
Dimension: 194 x 503 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781906860806