| Description |
128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Science projects |
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Gardner, Robert, 1929-2017.
Science projects.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index. |
| Contents |
Toys you can make: Make a comeback toy -- Make a balancing toy -- Make a frictionless toy air car -- Forces on your frictionless toy air car -- Electric and magnetic forces on your frictionless toy air car -- Make a toy electric motor -- Make a toy telephone -- Make a toy spinning top -- Science with toy cars and trucks: Toy cars on hills -- Marbles and balls on hills -- Effect of gravity on hills -- Cars that loop-the-loop and defy gravity -- Cars, hills, brakes, and gravity -- Magnetic cars that go bump but don't touch -- Cars with "springs" that bump -- Ride safely on a toy car -- Balloons, balls, bounces and spins: Electrical balloons: getting charged up -- Balloons, a ping-pong ball, and bernoulli -- Balloons: hot and cold -- Balloon in a bottle -- Superball and other bouncers -- Throwing curves with a beach ball -- Bring in the artillery and rockets: Speed and range of water projectiles -- Water "bombs" away! -- Ascending rockets: to what height? -- Marble in orbit -- Science with a variety of toys: Circling wagons on the move -- Pulling wagons -- How fast does a wind-up walking toy walk? -- How does a push-n-go work? -- Why does a dipping bird drink? -- Walking on snow -- Clay, boats and aluminum beverage cans -- How thick is a soap bubble? -- Bubbles that float. |
| Summary |
Presents science projects and experiments exploring the physics of various toys, including an air car, top, and balloon. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.0 3.0 45108. |
| Subject |
Mechanics -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.
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Toys -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.
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Science projects -- Juvenile literature.
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Physics -- Experiments.
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Toys -- Experiments.
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Experiments.
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Science projects.
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| Added Title |
Physics of toys and games |
| ISBN |
0766011658 |
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