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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Eduardo de Campos Valadares; Michael Hugh Knowles; Heather Jean Blakemore |
| ISBN: | 0131856731 9780131856738 |
| OCLC Number: | 61502785 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xix, 346 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Eduardo de Campos Valadares ; translated by Michael Hugh Knowles, Heather Jean Blakemore, and Eduardo de Campos Valadares. |
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