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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
by
Helen Czerski
6%
68°F to 475°F.
Ugh. Use Celsius. Must be an American edit. We need to get on board with the rest of the world already.
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9%
On one 11-mile journey, it will burn through 1,100 pounds of coal.
I had no idea steam engines used that much coal so quickly.
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13%
But gravity is always there, with the same strength (at the Earth’s surface, at least),
SMD taught me that it's not exactly the same!
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14%
to fall through the first yard.But
Went from talking about meters to yards. I suspect some American is to blame!
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41%
Waves don’t ever come in sideways,
I Don't think that is strictly true.
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46%
Each different wavelength is affected by the world around it in a different way.
Are waves this dense all over the universe? Could there even be areas with few or even no light waves?
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