This activity book for children features 35 "see-for-yourself" activities that demonstrate basic concepts in mechanics. From making hot air balloons to transfering energy with marbles, the book features a wide range of experiments designed to teach the principles of heat expansion, specific gravity, static and moving fiction, balance, gravity, inertia and momentum, force and more.

 

This book is part of a book series called Learning Triangle Press Science Fundamentals .

There are 148 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by McGraw-Hill Education - Europe .

This book has the following chapters: Experiments - needle floating on water; water supported by wire basket; the oil spot; transferring water by siphoning; weight of different fluids; moving dime; air takes up space; expanding air; hot air balloon; simple barometer; diving medicine dropper; boiled egg in basket; the candle and the funnel; floating ping pong ball; specific gravity; inclined plane and wedge; screw and lever; wheel and axle and pulley; static friction and moving friction; ball bearings reduce friction; balancing act; defying gravity; energy - potential and kinetic; pendulum; pendulums transfering energy; inertia and momentum; spinning can; turbines; centrifugal and centripetal forces; conservation of energy; law of falling bodies; direction of force and pull.