How do rainbows appear? What do fireworks, love and butterflies have in common? How do muscles work? Why does motion exist?

How do colours appear? Why can we see the stars? Why is music beautiful? What do feelings and dreams tell us about physics? Can we read thoughts? Which problems in physics are still open?

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This free physics textbook, written with girls and women in mind, provides the answers to these questions – and guarantees as much wonder, suspense and pleasure as whatever else you enjoy most in life.

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The text guarantees to be entertaining, surprising and challenging on every page. With little mathematics, starting from observations of everyday life – especially about animals, flowers and the human body – the text presents the best stories, colour photographs, and movies. Everything that moves in nature is explored. If you are between the age of 16 and 106, you will enjoy it.

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The colour pdf tells about animals and sport (mechanics and heat), about the sky at night (relativity and the structure of the universe), about lightning, nerves and the brain (electricity, light, language and truth), and about colours, pleasure and the stars (basic and advanced quantum physics). The text provides as many interesting facts as possible, together with their general description. It aims to make one enjoy looking at nature, thinking about nature, and experimenting with nature. If you are interested, a separate research volume tells about the search for a final, unified theory of physics.

This video channel shows how a young woman is fascinated by physics: Dianna Cowern at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DdEm33SyaTDtWYGO2CwdA

Motion Mountain has been downloaded over 400 000 times. The author has asked female professors working on physics gender research for advice and used it in the composition. Two young women readers liked the text so much that they later decided to study physics at university. Enjoy the reading!

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