Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly, and 27 Other Saturday Science Projects
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Actuator
Airfoil
Amplitude
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Bearing (navigation)
Breeder reactor
Bunsen burner
Carbon dioxide laser
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Centrifugal force
Coffee cup
Conductivity (electrolytic)
Cyanoacrylate
Diagram
Diode
Doppler effect
Drag (physics)
Electric motor
Electric stove
Electrical resistivity and conductivity
Electrode
Electrolysis
Emergency brake (train)
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Filing (metalworking)
Flame speed
Flywheel
Friction
Glycerol
Hinge
Laser pointer
Lead-acid battery
Loudspeaker
Maglev
Magnet
Magnetic field
Magnetic hysteresis
Melting point
Molecule
Muzzle velocity
Nickel-cadmium battery
Nuclear explosion
Nuclear reactor
Pendulum clock
Phosphorus
Photodetector
Plutonium
Potassium hydroxide
Projectile
Pulley
Radio wave
Resistor
Resonance
Rubber band
Samarium-cobalt magnet
Semiconductor
Silicon
Stroboscope
Tension (physics)
The Flying Circus of Physics
Transformer
Transistor
Transmitter
Uranium-235
Vacuum
Vacuum bazooka
Vacuum cleaner
Vibration
Washer (hardware)
Wheatstone bridge
Yacht
Zinc-carbon battery
Product details
- ISBN 9780691009865
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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How do you crack nuts with a piece of string? Reverse gravity? Cobble together a clock out of a coffee cup, a soda bottle, and some water? Use a vacuum cleaner and nineteenth-century railroad technology to fashion a makeshift bazooka that can launch paper projectiles? Create a rainbow in a block of Jello? This is a one-volume romp through a whole array of counterintuitive science experiments that require little more than common household items and a sense of curiosity. Prepare to have your surprise sensors on overload as Neil Downie stretches math, physics, and chemistry to do what they have never done before. This book describes twenty-nine unusual but practical experiments, detailing how they are done and the math and physics behind them. It will delight both casual and inveterate tinkerers. Of varying levels of complexity, the experiments are grouped in sections covering a wide field of physics and the borders of chemistry, ranging from dynamic mechanics ("Kinetic Curiosities") to electricity ("Antediluvian Electronics") and combustion ("Infernal Inventions").
The chapters are titillatingly titled, from "Twisted Sinews" and "Mole Radio" to "A Symphony of Siphons" and "Tornado Transistor." More-detailed explanations, along with simple mathematical models using high-school level math, are given in boxes accompanying each experiment. Armchair scientists will welcome this edifying and entertaining alternative to idleness, not least for the buoyant prose, enriched by historical and literary anecdotes introducing each topic. With this book in hand, tinkerers, whether dabblers in science or devotees, students or teachers, need never again wonder how to impress friends, the judges at the science fair, and, not least, themselves.
Neil A. Downie has worked on a variety of engineering projects for the British Ministry of Defence and private industries in the UK. He is currently a scientist with Air Products and Chemicals at their labs in Blasingstoke near London.
