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[W]e have all these dry numbers and significant wave height is one of them... [W]atching what it really means for a significant wave height to be 10 … - Helen Czerski
" "[W]e have all these dry numbers and significant wave height is one of them... [W]atching what it really means for a significant wave height to be 10 meters and thinking about how small that is compared to the depth of the ocean... It's like... having a swimming pool and... blowing tiny ripples across the top. ...Being in that situation was... fascinating and fun... I wouldn't want to do it every day, but it was... a special experience.
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About Helen Czerski
is a British physicist and oceanographer and television presenter. She is an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering at . She was previously at the Institute for Sound and Vibration Research at the .
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The day they carried... [the surface following buoy] down to the beach... and I had never thought about what really might be underneath [the ocean]... [T]hen I understood the context for them and... became an ocean scientist by the back door. ...Then I had opportunities to go to sea and I continued the research...
Put the egg down on a smooth, hard surface and set it spinning. ...[W]hen you stopped the raw egg, you only stopped the shell. The liquid never stopped swirling... so... the shell started rotating again... dragged around by its insides. ...It is a principle of physics that objects continue the same... movement unless you push or pull on them. ...[C]onservation of angular momentum.
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