| Edition |
1st Amer. hardcover ed. |
| Description |
390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. The scientific method -- A word about calculators -- Apparatus needed for all experiments -- Experiment 1. Identified flying objects -- Experiment 2. Updated cannonballs -- How things move : position, velocity, and acceleration -- Experiment 3. Weight 'til the sun shines, Nellie -- Why things move : forces and their effects -- Experiment 4. Dropsy -- Sources of forces : the biggies in nature -- Experiment 5. Horizontal globalization -- Round and round it goes, and where it stops-- : circular motion -- Experiment 6. Outgoing = incoming -- The ultimate four-letter word : work -- Experiment 7. Follow the bouncing ball -- Oops! collisions : impulse and linear momentum -- Experiment 8. You say you want a revolution? -- Spinning wheels, got to go round -- Experiment 9. Mo' yo-yo -- Force with a twist : torque -- Experiment 10. Teeter-totter -- The strange case of the body that doesn't move : static equilibrium -- Experiment 11. Stretchy spring -- Getting bent out of shape : elasticity -- Experiment 12. Gaze intently at the swinging yo-yo -- Experiment 13. Incredibly repetitive -- Back and forth, back and forth-- : simple harmonic motion and waves -- Experiment 14. Magic spring tricks -- Hey, listen, what's that sound? -- Experiment 15. Dive, dive -- Gooey and gassy : fluids at their finest -- Experiment 16. Soda bottle crush -- Even perfection has its flaws : the ideal gas -- Experiment 17. Kitchen physics -- Some like it hot : thermodynamics -- Experiment 18. Static cling -- Charge it : electricity at rest -- Experiment 19. Meter reader -- Who let the charges out? : electric current -- Experiment 20. Resistance is futile -- Silent struggles in the wires : resistance -- Experiment 21. Do-it-yourself magnet -- Approach/avoidance : magnetism -- Experiment 22. Battery-less voltage -- We are family : electricity from magnetism -- Experiment 23. All shook up -- Big-time electricity : AC -- Experiment 24. LEDs lead the way -- The light dawns : electromagnetic waves -- Experiment 25. Bent light -- Experiment 26. Polar opposites -- Mirror, mirror on the wall : reflection and refraction of light -- Experiment 27. Spreading the beam -- Experiment 28. Compact rainbow -- Light's strangest tricks : diffraction and interference -- Einstein's prodigious efforts : special and general relativity -- Experiment 29. LASER, not phasor -- Matter's innards : atoms and quantum mechanics -- Experiment 30. Half-life is better than no life -- Atoms' innards : nuclear physics -- Down to the nitty-gritty : the standard model of the universe's smallest constituents -- But wait, there's even more : the universe's biggest constituents. |
| Summary |
Introduces the science of physics, covering such topics as matter, motion, and magnetism; profiles important physicists including Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi; and features simple experiments to demonstrate key concepts. |
| Subject |
Physics -- Popular works.
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Physics -- Experiments -- Popular works.
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| Added Author |
Harris, Sidney.
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| ISBN |
9781591025900 (acid-free paper) |
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1591025907 (acid-free paper) |
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9781591022312 |
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1591022312 |
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