A SCIENCE MISCELLANY
Written by David McNaughton
Published by Vantage Press
in 1992
ISBN: 053309464X
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A SCIENCE MISCELLANY
Written by David McNaughton.
Stock no. 680349
1st.
1992.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A voyage into the intriguing world of science. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. xi and 113 pages. ISBN: 053309464X. Text block lightly browned. This is a review copy with label to front pastedown. Contents otherwise clean. Dustwrapper is faded to spine and unevenly faded to front & rear panel, a little grubby.
Front cover
Contents
- 1. Chemical Elements
- 2. Inside the Atom
- 3. Radioactivity
- 4. The Importance of Metals
- 5. Listing the Elements in a Table
- 6. Nuclear Energy
- 7. Air Pressure
- 8. Why Spinning Objects Swerve
- 9. The Force of Friction
- 10. Artificial Gravity
- 11. The Coriolis Effect
- 12. Gyroscopes and Boomerangs
- 13. Dividing by Zero
- 14. Two Natural Resources
- 15. Electricity: Cornerstone of Modern Civilization
- 16. Measuring Electricity
- 17. Temperature As Opposed to Heat
- 18. Energy Transfer: Any Form Can Be Converted into Others
- 19. Entropy: How "Useful Energy" Is Constantly Disappearing
- 20. Measuring the Speed of Light
- 21. Two Uses for Refraction of Light
- 22. Curves Known as Conic Sections
- 23. Earthquakes
- 24. Sound Speed and Loudness
- 25. Musical Harmony
- 26. Echoes and Accoustics
- 27. Symbiosis: Cooperation between Different Life-forms
- 28. Peoples of the World
- 29. Families of Languages
- 30. Other Number Scales: Base Five, Base Two, and Base Twenty
- 31. Calendars: Round the World and through the Ages
- 32. Puzzles and Problems
- 33. Rise and Fall of Civilizations