Riddles in Your Teacup
Fun with Everyday Scientific Puzzles
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher CRC Press
- Date of Publication 1 January 1994
- ISBN 9780750302753
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages188 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 294 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Natural phenomena and ordinary, everyday things often contain surprises and puzzles when we attempt to understand them in terms of basic physical principles. Trying to explain what we see around us can even help us to understand physical principles more fully. Written by two well-known popularizers of science, Riddles in Your Teacup, Second Edition focuses on many puzzles, both simple and advanced, that relate to these phenomena. Revised and enlarged, this fascinating second edition contains challenging questions about everyday scientific mysteries. It presents an amusing and entertaining collection of puzzles and solutions, including some riddles that have continued to defy explanation.
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Natural phenomena and ordinary, everyday things often contain surprises and puzzles when we attempt to understand them in terms of basic physical principles. Trying to explain what we see around us can even help us to understand physical principles more fully.
Written by two well-known popularizers of science, Riddles in Your Teacup, Second Edition focuses on many puzzles, both simple and advanced, that relate to these phenomena. Revised and enlarged, this fascinating second edition contains challenging questions about everyday scientific mysteries. It presents an amusing and entertaining collection of puzzles and solutions, including some riddles that have continued to defy explanation.
"There are surprises of wonder and delight for students of all ages and abilities ? a book that really should be in every science department. It will enhance and captivate all those who are not 'as good as dead.'"
-Jim Jardine, Physics Education
"A new, extended version of one of the most delightful little science books of recent years."
-The Good Book Guide
"? these questions are framed so interestingly that they hold the attention. They are accompanied by amusing sketches and agreeable anecdotes ? A gentle, unusual, and civilized production."
-Roy Herbert, New Scientist
"?an absolute gem ?"
-Focus
"? recommended to inquisitive young scientists ?"
-Robin Abbott, School Science Review, 277, June 1995
"An entertaining book ?"
-Endeavour, Short Notices
Table of Contents:
Preface to the second edition , Acknowledgments and bibliography, Questions: Kettle croon-physics around the kitchen, Our daily bread, Play time, Flow, fluid flow, Through the palm strangely, Facts and fiction-in movies and novels, The murmuring brook-mysteries of nature, Give your brains a racking, Answers to questions 1-7
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