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Exploring air

Rick Marshall guides you through some inventive physics relating to the air that surrounds us, including ‘empty’ bottles, draughty houses, wind turbines and hurricanes

The Earth’s atmosphere is the thin sliver of blue, which is held close to the planet’s surface by gravity

The terms in bold link to topics in the AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC and CCEA A-level specifications, as well as the IB, Pre-U and SQA exam specifications.

This exploration of air uses ideas about force, pressure, kinetic theory, temperature, gravitation and energy.

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