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Why do rivers meander? How do you make a glass sing? All of these questions, and many more, are answered in this book. A true invitation to wonder about aspects of our daily lives, this book investigates the physics that underlies these observations.
Introduction
Part 1 Open-Air Physics
1 Rivers, Meanders and Lakes
2 Artificial and Natural Waveguides
3 The Colours of the Sea and the Sky
4 FoucaultвЂs Pendulum and the Coriolis Force
5 The Ebb and Flow of the Tides
6 Bubbles and Droplets
7 The Climate: Why Summers Become Hotter?
8 Footprints in the Sand
9 From Crystal Snowflakes to Vitreous Glass
Part 2 Everyday Physics
10 A Conversation on a Train Ride
11 The Stradivari Legacy
12 Singing and Silent Glasses
13 Energy: Obedient Maid or Oppressive Mistress?
14 Nunc est Bibendum
Part 3 The Sapiens Cooker
15 Waiting for a Cup of Tea
16 When Physics Invades the Kitchen
17 Ab ovo
18 The Secrets of Baking Pizza
19 Noodles, Spaghetti and Physics
20 The Physics of Good (and Bad) Coffee
21 Science, Cooking and Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Part 4 The Strange Quantum World
22 Uncertainty, the Real Base of Quantum Physics
23 Physics, Geometry and Beauty
24 Perpetual Motion in Superconductors
25 Applications of Superconductors
26 Snowballs and Bubbles in Liquid Helium
27 MRI Looks Inside Us
28 Semiconductors and Nanophysics