TY  - BOOK
AU  - Suplee,Curt
TI  - The new everyday science explained
SN  - 0792273575 (alk. paper)
AV  - Q162 .S943 2004
U1  - 500 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - National Geographic Society
KW  - Science
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Physics
KW  - Chemistry
KW  - Human biology
N1  - 1; Matter and Motion --; It's all downhill from here --; Orders of magnitude --; Getting started --; Newton I; Inertia --; Newton II; F=MA --; Newton III; Equal and opposite --; Neither created nor destroyed --; Can't stop on a dime --; Friction as friend --; Friction: formidable foe --; Looking for leverage --; Wedges and wheels --; Animals at work --; To stick or not to stick --; Pressure and gases --; Pascal's liquid assets --; Making steel float --; A turbulent world --; Taking Bernoulli for a ride --; Making waves --; Reflection and refraction --; Resonance and interference --; Turning up the heat --; How heat gets around --; Heat and weather --; The effects of Coriolis --; 2; Forces of Nature --; The four forces --; A situation of gravity --; Gravity's many shapes --; Attraction from afar --; Magnetism and our lives --; Getting charged --; Electricity in motion --; To conduct or not to conduct --; Around and around --; Resistance: pros and cons --; Now you see it... --; Light of many colors --; Managing light for fun and profit --; Of sunlight and Earth --; Making light bend --; Focusing on worlds near and far --; Beyond visible light --; At the cutting edge of light --; Making light speak --; In our own image --; The photoelectric effect --; Inner sanctum --; 3; The Right Stuff --; Elements: personality kids --; Getting together --; Odd couples --; We're the stuff of stars --; Skeletons of substance --; Marriages of convenience --; Let's drink to water! --; Fresh water: not here --; Seeking balance: pH --; Chemistry for contractors --; Those amazing halogens --; Halogens and the environment --; Ashes to ashes, rust to rust --; It's what's for dinner --; Carbon's black magic --; A world of fuels --; Endless variations on a theme --; 4; The Chemistry of Life --; What is life, anyway? --; Cells without walls --; Turning sunlight into food --; Life runs on sugar --; Turning on your body heat --; Getting going --; Fats: the good, the bad, and the ugly --; The building blocks of life --; Hormones: the body's semaphores --; How cells change as they stay the same --; Your personal bar code for life --; Species: It's a family affair --; Evolution: nature's test drives --; The death of a cell --; Cells that never die --; Two killers on the rise --; We're all Trojan horses --; Bacteria of the world --; Viral invaders --; Vaccines and viruses --; The body's immune system --; War in a lymph node --; The enemy within --; Nervous systems --; Nerves and muscles --; Putting flex in your step --; Born to beat --; Heart attacks and brain attacks --; Running on rust --; Being good to your gut --; The magic of the liver --; Vitamins and minerals --; Bones and teeth --; Blood: the liquid organ --; Basics of the brain --; Seeing and believing --; Perception--or confusion? --; Sounds of a lifetime --; Taste and smell --; Thresholds of pain --; Emotion and behavior --; Drugs of pleasure --; Sleep and dreams --; Intimations of mortality --; Index --; Acknowledgments and Additional Reading --; Credits
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