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Produktbild: The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science

The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science The Very Best Backyard Science Experimetns You Can Do Yourself

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

13.05.2012

Abbildungen

w. mit 155 Illustrationen

Verlag

Princeton University Press

Seitenzahl

576

Maße (L/B/H)

22.9/17.8/3 cm

Gewicht

771 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-691-14966-0

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

13.05.2012

Abbildungen

w. mit 155 Illustrationen

Verlag

Princeton University Press

Seitenzahl

576

Maße (L/B/H)

22.9/17.8/3 cm

Gewicht

771 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-691-14966-0

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

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  • Produktbild: The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science
  • Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii SIMPLE BUT SUBTLE ... SIMPLE BUT NOT ALWAYS EASY TO EXPLAIN 1 Blunderspuds and Carrot Cannons--Artillery and Boyle's Law 3 Mr. Bernoulli's Pop-Up Piston--More Bernoulli Weirdness 9 The Rapid-Fire Vacuum Bazooka--Fire Projectiles or Clean the Floor 15 Single-Blade Propellers--Venetian Gondolas 22 Soda Mint Fountains--Thirst for Knowledge and Water Quenched at Once 29 The Armor-Plated Sandcastle--Gas and Sand Combine 34 The Riddle of the Sands--Weird but Beautiful Patterns Appear, All of Their Own Accord 39 Tricks of Sideways Light--Magic Mondrians and Invisible Watches 47 Sunbeam Exploders--Ray Guns Aren't Sci-Fi Any More 55 The Dead-or-Alive Ball--To Bounce or Not to Bounce, Th at Is the Question 64 Cowboy Coffee--Yee Haw! 68 Electric Glue--The Modern Glue 77 Electric Gunpowder--Explosive Electricity! 84 An Eiffel Brick Tower--Eat Your Heart Out, Monsieur Eiffel! 90 Dominoids--Four-Foot Brobdingnagian Monster Dominoes Will Hit the Floor at the End of a Row of Standard Dominoes 97 Colloons--Civil and Aeronautical Engineering Combined: Neither Column nor Balloon 104 Motor Brushes--The Science of Vibration-Driven Vehicles Is Applied to a Humble Household Brush 112 A Smooth-Wheel Paddle Steamer--Invisible (well, almost) Marine Propulsion 117 A String Amplifier--The Powerful Science of Loops of String 124 The Punkah Pendulum--Air-Conditioning and Timekeeping Combined 130 The Maharaja's Sunshade--Air in Motion Provides Tent and Air-Conditioning Rolled into One 136 SURPRISINGLY SUBTLE ... SURPRISES GALORE IN THIS MAVERICK COLLECTION 143 An Electric Sundial--Tired of Running to Your Cave Entrance to Get the Time? 145 The Kleenex Clock--Time from Tissue Paper 153 The Torsion Time Pencil--Peeling off Atomic Layers as Time Goes by 160 The Swell-Gel Flowstopper--Stop Water Going up Your Gas Lines 165 The Vortex Pump--Whirling Water Magic 170 Waxaulics--Hydraulics for Candles 175 Telestrings--Remote-Controlled Art 182 Squirting String--Getting String to Flow through Pipes 189 Spider Technology--The Silken Secrets of Spiderman 194 SIMPLE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE ... FUNDAMENTALS OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD UNCOVERED IN ELEGANTLY SIMPLE DEMONSTRATIONS 203 The Molecule Meter--I Speak Your Molecular Weight! 205 Talking Sparks--Send Messages at 186 Million Miles per Hour: See How Radio Pioneer Marconi First Sent Radio a Thousand Miles 211 Light and Lens Pipes--The Strong Focusing Principle Used in the Microscopes of Fundamental Particle Physics 221 Fire from Water--The Power of Concentration 230 The Heliracket--Waves, Molecules, and Music 239 The Helitower--The Momentum Principle of Rockets and Helicopters 248 CLOXOTICA-- EXOTIC CLOCKS AND OSCILLATORS: A CORNUCOPIA OF UNUSUAL CLOCKS 257 The Paperclip Clock--A Major Leap Forward in Horological Science, the Acme of Simplicity 259 The Micropendulum--The Prestipendulous Tick-Tock Clock 266 The String Thing--Ballet Dancing for Pendulums 274 Eddy the Coniclock--A Spinning Disk Powers a Conical Pendulum 280 The Humming Clock--Recycle Unwanted Mains Hum to Run Your Clock 285 An Hourglass Wallah--The Sands of Time Updated 292 The Knife-through-Butter Clock--Melting Time 300 Creepy Clocks and Time Pencils--The Slow Flow of Solids 307 A Polymerizing Clock--Telling Time with Glue and Chemistry 316 Delay-Line Oscillators--Pass-the-Parcel Oscillators 322 The Fan Flap Flip-Flop Clock--A Huffi ng and Puffing Clock 328 The Faucet Oscillator--Measuring Time with Spurts of Water 333 The Slugulator--Not an Oscillator for the Impatient! 338 The Sloshulator--Time from Waves 344 GEEKONICS--SIMPLER THAN YOU MIGHT EXPECT, AND NOT JUST FOR GEEKS 351 The Telebubblegraph--Sending Bubbly Messages the Electrolytic Way 353 The Touchy-Feely Sensor--Putting a Number to Hotfeelingness and Coldfeelingness 361 Fire Wire--Finding Fire along a Wire 368 Electric Bubble Memory--Minute Electric Cells Keep Your 1s and 0s Safe 375 Red-Hot Memory--Binary Memory: 0s Are Cold and 1s Are (ouch!) Hot 381 Deflation Detection--Ultrasonic Tire Monitoring 390 MAD, BAD, AND DANGEROUS--PROJECTS THAT HAVE HAZARDS, ALTHOUGH THEY CAN BE MINIMIZED 397 Deep Impact--Armor-Piercing Carrots: High-Speed Vegetables 399 The Flying Soda Bottle--A Spectacular Piece of Practical Science Using the Rapid Release of Energy from Compressed Gas 409 Oxygen Fireworks--The Greener, Safer Ground Fireworks System 419 GREAT STUFF--BIGGER PROJECTS THAT NEED SPACE AND LARGER PARTS 431 The Helevator--The Elevator of Oz: Is It a Helicopter or an Elevator? 433 An Airbag Oscillator--Your Body Forms Part of This Ride-On Brobdingnagian Oscillator 441 A Bubble-Tube Oscillator--Trains of Bubbles Chase Each Other Upward 449 The Preposterously Big Party Blowout--The Holiday Party Favorite Scaled up to Span Football Fields 457 Pink-Noise Pipes--Make Music from Noise! 463 Turbo Panjandrums--The Auto-Unicycle 469 The Impossible Turbine--The Backward-Forward-Always-Clockwise Turbine 477 A Rocket Railroad--Th is Rocket Pumps Propellant from the Track as It Goes Along 483 The Hovertrain--A Railroad without Rails 489 A Jet-Wash Rocket--The Superclean Rocket 496 The Single-Helix Pump--You Don't Need a Double Helix to Squirt Water at Surprising Pressure 503 Leonardo's Bridge--No Nails or Screws or String: It's Just a Subtle Stack of Sticks 509 Your Personal Hovercraft--You Have a Personal Computer, Why Not Ride Around on Your Personal Hovercraft? 517 Tips and Tricks 527 Old-Fashioned Units 531 Bibliography 533 Index