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Everyday science

Everyday science

A day in the life

01 Dec 2017
Taken from the December 2017 issue of Physics World

Achintya Rao reviews The Physics of Everyday Things: the Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day by James Kakalios

bread popping out of a toaster
Common phenomena Everyday life contains lots of observable physics, if you know where to look. (Courtesy: iStock/ThomasVogel)
When I was 10, I asked my mother if I could take my toy wheelbarrow full of assorted toys from home

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Achintya Rao is a science communicator for the CMS Collaboration at CERN and is pursuing a PhD in science communication from the University of the West of England, Bristol in the UK, e-mail achintya@achintyarao.in
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