Physics in Everyday Life

Peter Goldreich (Professor at Caltech & IAS, Princeton) has worked on orbital dynamics, solar rotation, magnetospheres, pulsars, astronomical masers, circumstellar disks, solar oscillations, planetary rings, shepherd satellites, interstellar turbulence, white-dwarf pulsations. His list of awards includes the National Medal of Science in 1995. 

In this talk, Peter discusses the physics mechanisms underlying some natural phenomena. Examples will be drawn from human metabolism, sports, flight and weather.