Science Files
5 total works
This new series looks at a range of common materials and explores where each one comes from, how it is extracted, purified, designed, manufactured and recycled. Each book examines the material's properties and the technologies used to shape it into products used in everyday life. Features include: lavish illustration with photos and detailed technical artwork; technology boxes showing the steps in a particular manufacturing process; historical facts explaining how processes were done in the past; into the future sections which look at what advances might be made in the 21st Century
This practical book answers common questions about forces and motion by looking at evidence and demonstrating their properties through a range of carefully chosen experiments that can be done in the classroom or at home. It covers such questions as 'What are forces?', 'Why do things fall downwards?', Why do things start moving?', Why do things move in circles?', "How do we measure forces?' and 'What is pressure?' It also includes questions for readers to investigate further on their own. Written by a highly experienced and acclaimed science writer, the book includes links to useful websites as well as glossary, index and list of further reading.
Explores various aspects of electricity and magnetism, including static electricity, conductors, insulators, circuits, microchips, the magnetism of the Earth, electric magnets, and movement with magnets.
Did you know the Sun will only go on shining for another 5 billion years? Find out more awesome facts and mind-bending information in this dynamic and fascinating book on the solar system.
Did you know sound travels about 15 times faster through steel than in the air? Find out more awesome facts and mind-bending information in this dynamic and fascinating book on light and sound.