Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1848313055 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Science writer Brian Clegg studied physics at Cambridge and specializes in making the strangest aspects of the universe accessible to the general reader. Clegg lives in Swindon, U.K.. His previous books from Icon include Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You, Dice World, The Quantum Age and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide. He is also the author of, from St Martin’s Press, The God Effect (2009), Gravity (2012)
Three Stars Mostly enjoyable, though some aspects are quite protracted, which for me has meant it took ages to read.. "A pleasure and it is science!" according to John the Reader. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Firstly, a quote from the Author, English Scientist Brian Clegg; "Too many people find science dull and uninspiring. It shouldn't be. It's about how everything works. Us,our world, our universe. Its life and death stuff. But the sad fact is that science is often presented in a lifeless, unexciting way."This book is a great example of his point - it is science, but presented in a readable, clear way - so tha. Not very enlightening for a technical person Stephen Allen This is an OK book but it is mostly very basic information that a person with a well rounded education will already know. Would be a good gift for a middle-school student.
On a plane you'll experience the impact of relativity, the power of natural radiation and the effect of altitude on the boiling point of tea. Inflight Science shows how you stay alive up there — but that's only the beginning.Brian Clegg explains the ever changing view, whether it's crop circles or clouds, mountains or river deltas, and describes simple experiments to show how a wing provides lift, or what happens if you try to open a door in midair (don't!). Every moment of your journey is an opportunity to experience science in action: Inflight Science will be your guide.. The perfect companion to any flight — a guide to the science on view from your window seatThere are few times when science is so immediate as when you're in a plane. Your life is in the hands of the scientists and
Everything about aircraft seems to fascinate him: how much they weigh, how their lavatories work, how they affect our bodies. For example, he digresses on why there will never be electric aircraft. His book is structured as a representative flight, from check-in to customs, in which at every turn he micro-analyses the technical and scientific aspects of the experience. Quite the reverse: its intention is to inform - fitting into that publishing niche somewhere between hard science and Schott's Miscellany that was so successfully exploited by books such as 'The CloudSpotter's Guide.' The great strength of the book is its ability to pull out from the mundane experiences of modern air travel - the contrails and cumulonimbus, the security scanners and salted snacks - to explain a wider technical point.' -- Times 'we should be grateful for this book from Brian Clegg, an unabashed aircraft geek. I consider