Physics, fun and beyond electrifying projects and inventions from recycled and low-cost materials
Learn about all this, and more: Step on eggs without breaking them ...
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Upper Saddle River, N.J.
Prentice Hall/PTR
2006
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Table of Contents:
- Fun with mechanics. The magic can
- How the weak become strong (structuring materials)
- Stepping on eggs
- Thin and fat balloons
- Pierce balloons without popping them
- Stretching carrousel
- A paper saw?
- Globe of death
- Flattening the earth at the poles
- Wild paints
- Astronaut in the elevator
- Washing machine: water extractor
- The square wheel and others
- Balloon rockets
- Rockets with chemical and air propulsion
- Water rockets
- Bouncing balls
- Temperamental pendulums
- Hypersensitive rings
- Bed of nails
- Bed of rulers
- The submarine
- Water amplifier (water transistor
- Hydraulic elevator
- Drawbridges
- Circumventing obstacles: how air and water streams find their way
- Juggling balloons
- Air streams on top of cars, roofs, and mountains
- Make your own sprayer
- Wind tunnel
- Unwanted ball
- Outsmarting friction (flying saucer)
- Wheel that rolls uphill
- The ballerina's trick
- Accelerometer
- Raw or hard-boiled egg
- Hand-operated water pump (Archimedes' screw)
- Water fountain
- How to get on top (Brazil nut effect). Playing with light: optics. Invisible glass
- Decomposing light into a rainbow: 21st century version of Newton's classical experiments
- Challenge your perception
- Moire patterns
- Lenses made of air and water
- The light at the end of the tunnel
- The ghost behind the mirror
- Levitation and cubism with a flat mirror
- Magical theater
- The miracle of the fishes: parallel mirrors
- Kaleidoscopes festival
- Dark chamber
- New discoveries with polarizers
- Why is the sky blue?
- Exploring the laser ray
- Tubes of light: fiber optics
- Slow-motion camera
- Fractal Christmas
- The world of atoms and our world: cold, heat, and giant bubbles. Jiggling atoms
- Crushing cans and plastic bottles
- Bending laser beams with hot air
- Stream machine
- The little steamboat
- Burn balloons without popping them
- Air and water thermometers
- Full balloon with end open
- Invisible hand
- Pneumatic tire valves
- Car in the sun: greenhouse effect and solar heater
- Can competition: which heats up and cools down faster?
- Fog-proof mirrors
- Tying a knot in a stream of water
- Soap saddles? You are joking!
- Racquets and tennis balls made of soap
- Flexible colors
- Two-dimensional vortex
- Pass through a soap film without popping it
- Non-cutting scissors
- Gigantic soap bubbles and films
- Speeding up water droplets
- Liquid climbers
- Whirlpools (3D vortices)
- Outlets clogged with water
- Forcing an egg out of the shell. Playing with sounds: acoustics. Telephone with a wire
- Scratching made louder
- When is a pipe a bell?
- Tick-tock of the clock
- Wireless telephone: parabolic acoustic mirrors
- Focusing sound
- Home-made variable-pitch whistle
- Sounds of paper
- Secrets of the guitar
- Singing hose
- From lungs to mouth
- Pictures of sounds. Electrifying experiments: electricity and magnetism. Sticking balloons on walls: static electricity
- Making water detour
- Wireless lamp
- Salt water turns into gas: electrolysis
- Electric gates: thermal relays
- Electric hoist: electromagnets
- Chaotic pendulum
- Painting pictures with an electric hoist
- Electric motor
- Crazy toboggan: electromagnetic braking
- Magnetic levitation
- Silent radio
- Car control versus TV control. Patterns for fun with mechanics, experiment 13: the square wheel and others
- Patterns for playing with light: optics, experiment 3: challenge your perception