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2) Gravity
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What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity. Author Jason Chin takes this complex subject and makes it brilliantly accessible to young listeners in this innovative book. His expansive but simple narrative does justice to the subject at hand, looking at the concept of gravity in a whole new way. From the redwoods to the oceans to a small island,...
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"Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these, gravity may the most obvious, but it is also the most mysterious. Newton managed to predict the force of gravity but couldn't explain how it worked at a distance. Einstein picked up on the simple premise that gravity and acceleration are interchangeable to devise his mind-bending general relativity, showing how matter warps space and time. Not only did this explain how gravity...
4) Gravity
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Introduces the force of gravity, including how it works and the history of the theory.
7) I fall down
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Simple experiments introduce the basic concept of gravity and its relationship to weight.
9) Gravity
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Introduces young readers to gravity, its characteristics, and its uses in the world.
10) What is gravity?
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"What Is Gravity? introduces readers to the science behind that question, explaining the physics behind the phenomenon through graphs and activities. Easy-to-understand summaries following each chapter highlights the most important points for review."--
11) Patema inverted
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Princess Patema lives in an underground world, but one day tumbles headlong into a void and out into the wide open world above the surface. Age is a student on this surface world when he spies Patema hanging upside-down from a tree. He pulls her down to safety, struggling to keep her earthbound. Together they master the art of navigating competing gravitational forces and set out to discover the secret that keeps their worlds apart.
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Skyward volume 1
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One day, gravity on Earth suddenly became a fraction of what it is now. Twenty years later, humanity has adapted to its new low-gravity reality. And to Willa Fowler, who was born just after G-day, it's pretty awesome. You can fly through the air! I mean, sure, you can also die if you jump too high. So you just don't jump too high. And maybe don't get mixed up in your dad's secret plan to bring gravity back that could get you killed ... From writer...
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"Join the TechTots--Mia, Seb, Isla, and Oscar--as they have fun answering questions about science. Each TechTots story includes a simple, fun-to-do experiment, perfectly aimed at young children. Why do things fall down? is a simple introduction to the basic laws of gravity"--Page [4] of cover.
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Skyward volume 2
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"Now a fugitive, Willa leaves Chicago and goes on the run! But when she takes refuge with some low-G farmers, she stumbles into a plot to attack the city. Oh, and on top of all that: giant, man-eating bugs! Maybe we should have led with that." --
17) Density
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"Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to density. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
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Mad Scientist Academy volume 3
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In this blend of adventure and exploration presented in comic book format, Dr. Cosmic's class of clever monsters experiences gravity and weightlessness, a close encounter with an asteroid, and what it's like being on the other planets of the solar system. Includes solar system facts.
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James Owen Weatherall's previous book, The Physics of Wall Street, was a New York Times best-seller and named one of Physics Today's five most intriguing books of 2013. In his newest volume, he takes on a fundamental concept of modern physics: nothing. The physics of stuff--protons, neutrons, electrons, and even quarks and gluons--is at least somewhat familiar to most of us. But what about the physics of nothing? Isaac Newton thought of empty space...
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Will help you appreciate and understand the significance of Isaac Newton's masterpiece-what many regard as the greatest scientific contribution of all time.
Despite its dazzling reputation, Isaac Newton's “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica”, or simply “The Principia”, remains a mystery for many people. Few of even the most intellectually curious readers, including professional scientists and mathematicians, have actually looked...