Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life

基本信息

Format Paperback | 400 pages

Dimensions 127 x 198 x 25mm | 273g

Publication date 01 Jun 2017

Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd

Imprint Black Swan

Language English

ISBN10 178416075X

ISBN13 9781784160753

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

终于，科学家丢掉公式算式，开始讲人话了！

★口碑一流：原版口碑销量俱佳，现已翻译成12种不同语言。

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★《数学教你不犯错》作者、数学家 艾伦伯格（Jordan Ellenberg）诚意盛赞：「在每一个岩石下、每一个雨滴旁、每一颗沙子内，海伦‧齐尔斯基都能找到科学展现的奇迹。」

★《悖论》、《解开生命之谜》作者、物理学家 吉姆·艾尔-卡利里（Jim Al-Khalili）倾力推荐：「这本书展现了物理学平易近人而有趣的一面，使我读起来非常地快乐。」

试想一下：

蓝莓是蓝色的，为什么蓝莓果酱却是紫色的？

用烤面包机烤出一片外酥内软的吐司，会和宇宙过热现象有关？

如何用一只手指就能判别生鸡蛋和熟鸡蛋？

厨师奋力甩动披萨的饼皮，也是在进行一个物理学的动作？

总是有些日常现象被我们视为理所当然，却往往很少人思考过：「为什么？」以及「这些事为什么很重要？」

物理向来似乎只是科学家的事，但经典的物理原理其实无处不在，而且还很日常！这本书正是一场由物理、化学、生物、医学、能源（甚至还有泰坦尼克号！）联手企划的惊奇之旅，透过生活中许多习以为常的小事物，展现出最简单却极其精巧的科学奥秘！

海伦·切尔斯基将所有无法想象而又互相影响的事物巧妙连结，从鸡蛋到哈伯望远镜、从深海的鲸鱼恶斗巨鱿到佛卡夏面包的烘烤过程，以及从搅动的茶水如何想象地球的大气……透过她生动俏皮的描述，我们轻盈地越过科学的高墙，看见那些小小的现象各有价值；当它们聚集在一起时，便成就了你我的生活，甚至成为推动世界的巨大力量——

Just as Freakonomics brought economics to life, so Storm in a Teacup brings physics into our daily lives and makes it fascinating.

Our world is full of patterns. If you pour milk into your tea and give it a stir, you’ll see a swirl, a spiral of two fluids, before the two liquids mix completely. The same pattern is found elsewhere too. Look down on the Earth from space, and you’ll find similar swirls in the clouds, made where warm air and cold air waltz.

In Storm in a Teacup, Helen Czerski links the little things we see every day with the big world we live in. Each chapter begins with something small – popcorn, coffee stains and refrigerator magnets – and uses it to explain some of the most important science and technology of our time.

This is physics as the toolbox of science - a toolbox we need in order to make sense of what is around us and arrive at decisions about the future, from medical advances to solving our future energy needs. It is also physics as the toy box of science: physics as fun, as never before.

作者简介

海伦·切尔斯基（Helen Czerski），剑桥大学物理学博士，伦敦大学学院物理学家，研究海洋泡沫和气候变化。切尔斯基2012年开始参与英国广播公司（BBC）的科普节目制作，至今已主持过十多部科学纪录片，包括《色彩的奥秘》《寰宇轨迹》《超感：动物的秘密能力》。目前，切尔斯基为《聚焦》杂志和《华尔街》杂志撰写科普专栏，同时参与BBC科普节目制作。2014年，她被英国期刊出版人联合会（PPA）选为年度专栏作家。2018年，英国皇家物理学会授予她威廉·汤姆森·开尔文勋爵奖章，以表彰她在物理学科普方面的杰出成就。

Helen Czerski was born in Manchester. She is a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at University College London. As a physicist she studies the bubbles underneath breaking waves in the open ocean to understand their effects on weather and climate. 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. 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. She lives in London.