![]() ![]() And if it lands in a person with a weak immune system, it might start a new colony, growing slowly until new bacteria are ready to be coughed out all over again. Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life Helen Czerski 4.02 4,034 ratings534 reviews Want to read Kindle 9. Like the miniaturized fat droplets in today’s homogenized milk, it’s just a passenger. Wherever the air goes, the bacterium goes. The gravitational pull on this new parcel is no match for the buffeting of the air. Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life Audible Audiobook Unabridged Helen Czerski (Author), Chloe Massey (Narrator), Random House Audiobooks (Publisher) 1,110 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 296.80 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. ![]() If it was originally a droplet of spit with a tuberculosis bacterium floating about in it, it’s now a tuberculosis bacterium neatly packaged up in some leftover organic crud. What was a droplet big enough for gravity to pull it through the viscous air now becomes a mere speck, a shadow of its former self. Most of that droplet is water, and in the first few seconds in the outside air, that water evaporates. Just as the cream rises slowly through viscous milk to the top of the bottle, these droplets are on course to slide through the viscous air to reach the floor. As the droplets drift downwards, they are bumped and jostled by air molecules that slow their descent. It was the joint winner of the 2018 Asimov Prize (a national Italian science book prize awarded by the Gran Sasso Science Institute), named one of the top ten physics books of 2016 by Physics World, and has been awarded the. Air is too – it has to be pushed out of the way as things move through it. Her first book, Storm in a Teacup, was published in the UK in November 2016 and has been translated into 16 languages. But it doesn’t happen quickly, because it’s not just liquids that are viscous. These droplets are being pulled downwards by gravity and once they hit the floor, at least they’re not going anywhere else. I am delighted to add Helen Czerski, author of the new book Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life, to that distinguished company. Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking ordinary objects and occurrences, like popcorn popping, coffee stains, and fridge magnets, to big. The fluid droplets themselves start off fairly big, perhaps a few tenths of a millimetre. Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski’s lively, entertaining, and richly informed introduction to the world of physics. Some of them will contain the tiny rod-shaped TB bacteria, each only three-thousandths of a millimetre long. ![]() Carried out of the lungs with each cough are thousands of fluid droplets, plumes of minuscule crusaders. ![]()
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