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he idea of this book is to make science come alive and show that science can be fun. People watch their sporting heroes and naturally want to imitate them. At the same time, many children and yound adults in the 13-20 age range have a fear of science as something terribly complicated that does not relate to them or to their life. Similarly, for older people, cricket these days is full of technology and jargon, a lot of which may not be comprehensible to them. The idea is to use cricket as a hook to make science fun and to try and explain why certain things that happen on a cricket field are the way that they are. The link between a fast bowler slinging down the ball and optics or atomic physics is not immmediately obvious, but when the bowler catches the edge of the bat he is reproducing a classic experiment from the 1930's that demostrated the existence of the nucleus of the atom and when the ball bounces, it follows simple laws of optics (in its most basic form: angle of incidence, angle of reflection.... something that school children have learnt about in science lessons for decades). When a bowler searches for reverse swing he is trying to crack some extremely complex equations of hydrodynamics and when Hot Spot says that Stuart Broad did catch Rickie Pointing's edge it is simply applying the same technology as in heat-seeking missiles and the same science as an infared telescope. There is even science invovled in the tossing of a coin at the start of the match: even if Andrew Strauss has won ten tosses in a row calling "heads" , he still has a 50% chance of getting it right again if he calls "heads" for an eleventh time. The reader will have fun, indulge their passion for cricket and learn some of the basic science and physical laws behind the game. I will not help the reader to bowl like Wasim Akram, or bat like Brian Lara, but it will allow them to understand better what is going on when their heroes play. The aim of the book is to entertain, to educate and to inform.

Detalles del artículo

• Editorial : NOTTINGHAM UNIVERISTY PRESS
• Idioma : Inglés
• Fecha de Publicación : 31/07/2010
• ISBN: 9781904761921
• Encuadernación : Rústica
• Nº Volúmenes : 1
• País de Publicación : Reino Unido (INGLATERRA)