Physics for kids : science experiments and activities inspired by awesome physicists, past and present
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- ISBN: 9780760372432
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Physical Description:
128 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
print - Publisher: Beverly, MA : Quarry Books, an imprint of the Quarto Group, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
General Note: | "With 25 illustrated biographies of amazing scientists from around the world."--Cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 122-124) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Lab 1. William Gilbert b. 1544 : electricity -- Lab 2. Galileo Galilei b. 1564 : pendulums -- Lab 3. Sir Isaac Newton b. 1643 : gravity and prisms -- Lab 4. Laura Bassi b. 1711 : air and electricity -- Lab 5. Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) b. 1753 : thermodynamics -- Lab 6. Thomas Young b. 1773 : wave theory -- Lab 7. Augustin-Jean Fresnel b. 1788 : light and color -- Michael Faraday b. 1791 : electromagnetic induction -- Lab 9. Pierre Curie b. 1859 : piezoelectricity -- Lab 10. Lise Meitner b. 1878 : nuclear fission -- Lab 11. Albert Einstein b. 1879 : relativity -- Lab 12. Katharine Burr Blodgett b. 1898 : films -- Lab 13. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin b. 1900 : star material -- Lab 14. Mary Golda Ross b. 1908 : aerospace engineering -- Lab 15. Luis Walter Alvarez b. 1911 : bubble chamber -- Lab 16. Ruby Payne-Scott b. 1912 : sunspots -- Lab 17. Chien-Shiung Wu b. 1912 : symmetry -- Lab 18. Warren M. Washington b. 1936 : atmospheric pressure -- Lab 19. Stephen Hawking b. 1942 : black holes -- Lab 20. Christine Darden b. 1942 : aircraft wing design -- Lab 21. Jocelyn Bell Burnell b. 1943 : pulsars -- Lab 22. Valerie L. Thomas b. 1943 : illusion transmitter -- Lab 23. Nadya Mason b. 1972 : conductivity/carbon -- Lab 24. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein b. 1982 : cosmology -- Lab 25. Buṙin Mutlu-Pakdil b. 1986 : galaxies. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 7-10 Quarry Books |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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The Pas Campus Library | QC 15 .H433 2022 (Text) | 58500000762039 | UCNJuv | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-06-28 |