Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life

This is Boyle’s Law, and it says that gas pressure is inversely proportional to volume.

the total amount of spin of the egg white stays the same because it had no reason to change. This is known as conservation of angular momentum.

In the air I’m breathing as I type this, there are pairs of oxygen atoms (each pair is one oxygen molecule) moving at 900 mph bumping into pairs of nitrogen atoms going at 200 mph, and then maybe bouncing off a water molecule going at over 1,000 mph.

What difference does it make if my sunglasses have polarizing lenses?

Sperm whales are never breathing from their lungs when they make these deep dives. It’s far too dangerous.

Physics is awesome precisely because the same patterns are universal:

Each corn kernel contains a germ, which is the start of a new plant, and the endosperm, which is there as food for the new plant. The endosperm is made up of starch packaged into granules, and it contains about 14 per cent water. As the kernels sat in the hot oil, that water was starting to evaporate, turning into steam. Hotter molecules move faste

We live in a world made of atoms.

A sperm whale has twice as much haemoglobin as a human, and about ten times as much myoglobin (the protein used to store energy in the muscles).