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A SCIENCE MISCELLANY

by David McNaughton

Published by Vantage Press. 1st. 1992

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.

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.

ISBN: 053309464X
Stock no. 680349

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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

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