Riddles in Your Teacup: Fun with Everyday Scientific Puzzles

by Partha Ghose, Dipankar Home

Natural phenomena and ordinary, everyday things often contain surprises and puzzles when we attempt to understand them in terms of basic physical principles. Trying to explain what we see around us can even help us to understand physical principles more fully.

Written by two well-known popularizers of science, Riddles in Your Teacup, Second Edition focuses on many puzzles, both simple and advanced, that relate to these phenomena. Revised and enlarged, this fascinating second edition contains challenging questions about everyday scientific mysteries. It presents an amusing and entertaining collection of puzzles and solutions, including some riddles that have continued to defy explanation.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Physics

174 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Prabhat sharma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Riddles in Your Teacup Fun with Everyday Scientific Puzzles [Paperback] [Dec 31, 2005] by Partha Ghose and Dipankar Home, (Paperback) Hindi language translation by Arvind Gupta- Aim of education is to attract young ones towards learning. This book brings concepts of science in an easy way for children. The questions (1) Why is the night dark? (2) How do bees buzz? Why do tea leaves collect in the centre of the cup after stirring? (3) What makes a river meander? (4) Why do people snore? (5) Why does rain fall in drops? Natural phenomena and ordinary everyday things often contain surprises and puzzles when we try to understand them in terms of basic scientific principles. The book has a good spread of physics puzzles, each making you think about the simple things we observe in our homes and around each day. Sure to put a smile on your face of students. It helps you thinking through the various concepts of physics. The book helps the student to change the way they look at the things around them. A good book for students of all age groups.

[Maxemilian Drest · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Prithviraj · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice spread of physics puzzles, each making you think about the simple things we observe in our homes and around each day. Sure to put a smile on your face and get you thinking through the various concepts of physics.Changes the way you look at the things around you. A good book to keep!:)

[Abhishek · Rating 4 out of 5]

a very enjoyable read for science lovers