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Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly, and 27 Other Saturday Science Projects
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- ISBN-13
- 9780691009865
- Book Title
- Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly, and 27 Other Saturday Sc
- ISBN
- 9780691009865
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly, and 27 Other Saturday Science Projects
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Width
- 178mm
- Subject
- Science
- Item Weight
- 454g
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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How do you crack nuts with a piece of string? Reverse gravity? Cobble together a clock out of a coffee cup, a soda bottle, and some water? Use a vacuum cleaner and nineteenth-century railroad technology to fashion a makeshift bazooka that can launch paper projectiles? Create a rainbow in a block of Jello? This is a one-volume romp through a whole array of counterintuitive science experiments that require little more than common household items and a sense of curiosity. Prepare to have your surprise sensors on overload as Neil Downie stretches math, physics, and chemistry to do what they have never done before. This book describes twenty-nine unusual but practical experiments, detailing how they are done and the math and physics behind them. It will delight both casual and inveterate tinkerers. Of varying levels of complexity, the experiments are grouped in sections covering a wide field of physics and the borders of chemistry, ranging from dynamic mechanics ( Kinetic Curiosities ) to electricity ( Antediluvian Electronics ) and combustion ( Infernal Inventions ).The chapters are titillatingly titled, from Twisted Sinews and Mole Radio to A Symphony of Siphons and Tornado Transistor. More-detailed explanations, along with simple mathematical models using high-school level math, are given in boxes accompanying each experiment. Armchair scientists will welcome this edifying and entertaining alternative to idleness, not least for the buoyant prose, enriched by historical and literary anecdotes introducing each topic. With this book in hand, tinkerers, whether dabblers in science or devotees, students or teachers, need never again wonder how to impress friends, the judges at the science fair, and, not least, themselves.
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Princeton University Press
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9780691009865
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Publication Name
Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly, and 27 Other Saturday Science Projects
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Science
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
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Item Height
229mm
Item Width
178mm
Item Weight
454g
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United States
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