Readers will enter the laboratory and learn how to conduct cool experiments, understand scientific terms like "photosynthesis," and discover fun facts like how many latex balloons per day can be made from one rubber tree.
Ordinary folks can construct 13 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple - a match-powered rocket - to the more complex - a scale-model, table ...
Do you know how to make something that can tell whether the $20 bill in your wallet is a fake? Or how to generate battery power with simple household items? Or how to create your own home security system?Science-savvy author Cy Tymony does. And now you can learn how to create these thingsand more than 40 other handy gadgets and gizmosin Sneaky ...
Science-savvy author Tymony shows readers how to transform ordinary objects into the extraordinary, and how to create more than 40 handy gadgets and gizmos for almost any situation, including survival, security, self-defense, and silly applications that are just plain fun.
How do honeybees find their way home? Why is Venus so hot? How can you measure the speed of the wind? What makes a sound loud or soft? Discover the awesome answers to these and other fascinating mysteries in biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, and astronomy. Just try these 201 fun, safe, low-cost experiments at home or in the classroom. ...
In the spirit of Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" and "Smash Lab, Popular Science" columnist Gray demonstrates fundamental scientific principles through wacky, daredevil experiments.
When nine-year-old Allen discovers a way to turn sunlight into food, no one believes him...except the President of the United States. Illustrated with b&w drawings.
This collection of challenging experiments will help get readers up to speed on laboratory techniques, safety and experimental procedures. Each experiment is presented with concise objectives, a comprehensive list of techniques, and detailed lab intros and step by step procedures. Beran also integrates numerous Dry Labs, experiments that do not ...
Full of games to play, machines to make, and ideas to explore, this guide teaches basic concepts--the nature of static electricity and more--through projects that can be carried out safely at school or at home with minimal supervision. Each experiment uses common household objects. Full-color photos.
Science-savvy author Tymony shows readers how to transform ordinary objects into the extraordinary, and how to create more than 40 handy gadgets and gizmos for almost any situation, including survival, security, self-defense, and silly applications that are just plain fun.
Lewis Carroll Epstein explains deep ideas in physics in an easy-to-understand way. "Thinking Physics" is a perfect beginner's guide to an amazingly wide range of physics-related questions. The book targets topics that science teachers and students spend time wondering about, like wing lift. Epstein elucidates the familiar but misunderstood -- such ...
"The Everything Kids' Magical Science Experiments Book" is filled with over 50 science experiments that bend the rules of time, space and logic so far, they appear to be magical.Kids can conduct these experiments safely in the home, unlocking the mysteries of experiments that: you can create using common food items; will help you explore the ...
From a device that makes sounds waves visible to a unique 'pomato' plant, these 100 imaginative and impressive science projects will impress judges and teachers alike - and astound all the kids in the school. Some of the experiments can be completed quickly, others take more time, thought, and construction, but every one uses readily available ...
Step-by-step instructions to building over 30 fascinating devices are included in this book for workbench warriors and grown-up inventors. Detailed illustrations and diagrams explain how to construct a simple radio with a soldering iron, a few basic circuits, and three shiny pennies. Instructions are included for a rotary steam engine that ...
When Tusko the Elephant woke in his pen at the Lincoln Park Zoo on the morning of August 3, 1962, little did he know that he was about to become the test subject in an experiment to determine what happens to an elephant given a massive dose of LSD. In "Elephants on Acid", Alex Boese reveals to readers the results of not only this scientific trial ...
The past six years have seen a substantial increase in the attention paid by research workers to the principles of experimental design. The Second Edition of this handbook brings up to date, while retaining the basic framework that made it so popular. It describes the most useful of the designs that have been developed with accompanying plans and ...
From the acclaimed "New York Times" science writer Johnson comes an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science.
A collection of easy experiments in biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy and the Earth sciences, that can be performed safety at home or in the classroom. All experiments have detailed instructions and scientific explanations, and none require elaborate or expensive equipment.
He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the best of classical educations. Raised by a mysterious group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother-a princess in exile from a faraway land-are the only people in their household assigned names. As the boy's regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house ...
All food is, of course, made of chemicals, and cooking can be thought of as a series of chemical reactions in which changes occur to some of these chemicals. The aims of cooking are several: a [ to kill microorganisms and denature enzymes that might bring about undesirable changes in food a [ to maintain or enhance the nutritional value of the ...
Melly and Anny Beth are fifteen - and can no longer drive a car. Soon they won't be able to walk...or feed themselves. They had both lived full lives - Melly was one hundred years old, and had been left in a nursing home, waiting to die. Then Melly and Anny Beth were selected for Project Turnabout and were given an injection to make them grow ...
This fascinating exploration of atmospheric physics presents over 25 experiments that let readers observe and reproduce natural phenomena with simple materials at home or in the classroom. In a captivating, conversational tone, it explores topics in meteorological optics, including rainbows, coronas, color of sky and sea, visibility, cloud physics ...
It's a tough job separating truth from urban legend, but the MythBusters are here to serve. For example, is it true that if you step in quicksand, you'll be sucked down to your death! Only two men would be inventive and adventurous enough to try to find out: Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the MythBusters. Each week, hosts Savage and Hyneman, both ...
"The Hungry Scientist Handbook" taps into the hot DIY technology trend that is capturing the imagination of young, creative minds. It compiles the most fascinating and rewarding projects created by mechanical engineer Patrick Buckley and his band of intrepid techie friends, whose collaboration on contraptions started at a memorable 2005 Bay area ...
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