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1) Dark matter
Author
Language
English
Description
One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Millions of people visit Randall Munroe's website each week. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous following as do his deeply researched answers to his fans' strangest questions. This book features the most popular answers to many of the questions he receives.
Author
Publisher
QEB Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
96 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Outlines forty-two science experiments, with illustrations of the equipment needed, step-by-step instructions, and an explanation of the results, including such projects as a vinegar volcano, vanishing rainbow, wingless plane, and CD hovercraft.
6) Gravity
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Colorful illustrations and simple text explain the concept of gravity to young readers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Colorful and simple introduction for babies and grownups to a new astronomical concept for every letter of the alphabet. Each page features multiple levels of text so the book grows along with your little astronomer.
Author
Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Make a water rocket and engineer the perfect paper airplane. Play with mirror images. Use atmospheric pressure to push an egg into a bottle. Crush a mint to create a flash of light. This engaging guide offers a series of snapshots of 25 scientists famous for their work with physics, from ancient history through today. Each lab tells the story of a scientist along with some background about the importance of their work, and a description of where it...
Author
Publisher
IVP Academic
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
222 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Physicist Peter Bussey introduces readers to the mysteries of modern physics and astronomy, including the laws of nature, quantum physics, fine-tuning and current cosmological models. Modern physics and astronomy present us with compelling signposts to God.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
160 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides background information and instructions for fifty science projects involving plants, insects, microbes, human behavior, animals, water, physics, machinery, plus other topics, and suggests further ideas to pursue.
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Takes a look at how to transform the energy and control from a person's muscles into higher speeds needed for throwing and then looks at machines that store energy and release it in a controlled way to propel objects for long distances.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike.
17) Ice princess
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (va. 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
17-year-old physics whiz Casey Carlyle is urged by her physics teacher to work on a physics project over the summer for presentation to Harvard. Since Casey is an ice skater she decides on a project that will show the elements of physics applied in competitive figure skating. To better understand the principles she's using, she will have to become her own test subject. She decides that she wants to skate on the Nationals circuit, but has some very...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Skyscrapers stretch high into a city's skyline, providing places to work and live for millions of people. Discover the engineering behind skyscrapers.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Budding music fans will love discovering musical geniuses of every era, from Mozart and classical music to Bowie and pop, as well as finding out how music is created and what links it all together. The book looks at music throughout history, beginning with the first known melody from the Fertile Crescent and covering modern music phenomena, from K Pop to hip-hop. Instruments and genres from across the world are featured, with "playlists" of key pieces...