Category: How It Works
Number of Pages: 148
Language: English
Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd.
Age Range: 7 and Up
About the Book
In this fact-packed guide we introduce fundamental principles in physics, biology and chemistry with clear, concise explanations, infographics, illustrations and home experiments. From the Big Bang to quantum mechanics, and fossils to Wi-Fi, you’ll be up to speed with the latest breakthroughs in no time.
Inside:
- The Big Bang Atomic structure
- Electric currents Cell division
- States of matter
- Nerve signals
- Star life cycles
- How fossils form
- Doppler shift
- Respiration Special Relativity
- General Relativity Magnetism
- How old are your cells?
- Moments explained how the heart beats
- Photosynthesis
- Planet formation
- Newton's laws of motion
- Archimedes' principle
- Internal combustion engines
- Bacteria and viruses
- How light behaves Vitamins and minerals
- Hydraulic systems
- Earth's structure
- The laws of thermodynamics
- Your body's elements
- Quantum mechanics
- Wi-Fi explained
- The periodic table
- Inside the human brain
- Crystallography
- Nuclear fission and fusion
- The forces of nature The scale of your body's cells
- How GPS works
- Heat transfer
- How the body digests food
- Electricity and magnetism
- Enzymes explained Water transport in plants
- Sound waves
- How a clinical trial works
- Acids and alkalis
- Human vision
- The conservation of energy
- The electromagnetic spectrum
- Genetic modification Get involved – citizen science projects
Plus, home experiments to try for yourself:
- Build a lemon battery circuit
- Instantly freeze water
- Make your own fossils
- Build a model lung
- Make a compass
- Build a bridge
- Make a planetary system model
- Build a bubble bottle
- Split the colors of light
- How to boost your Wi-Fi
- Make geode crystals
- Build a teddy bear zip wire
- Create a solar tower
- Make an electric motor
- Build a speaker
- Make pH paper
- Create a lolly stick explosion
- Extract your DNA
