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Publisher
Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An instructional reference that teaches kids how to use readily available household materials to conduct a variety of educational and inexpensive science experiments includes step-by-step instructions for building a potato chip canister planetarium, a plastic cup pinhole camera and more.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the leading physicists of her generation, at work on the origins of spacetime at the intersection of particle physics and astrophysics. She is also one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics. In The Disordered Cosmos, Prescod-Weinstein shares with readers her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to...
4) I fall down
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simple experiments introduce the basic concept of gravity and its relationship to weight.
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The epic story of how, amid two world wars, history’s greatest physicists redefined the universe and the reality we live in There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists—Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and others—came together to uncover the quantum world, a concept so outrageous and shocking,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"At the core of Einstein's general theory of relativity are a set of equations that explain the relationship among gravity, space, and time--possibly the most perfect intellectual achievement of modern physics. For over a century, physicists have been exploring, debating, and at times neglecting Einstein's theory in their quest to uncover the history of the universe, the origin of time, and the evolution of solar systems, stars, and galaxies. In this...
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Language
English
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The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can't walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers?...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
The astronomer who inadvertently triggered the "demotion" of Pluto in his effort to officially recognize the solar system's tenth planet describes the ensuing debates and public outcry while revealing the behind-the-scenes story of his discovery.
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