How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science in Everyday LifeArcade Publishing, 2003 - 255 էջ Presents insights into what it is like to be a scientist and what scientists do through investigations of the science behind everyday activities, such as dunking a doughnut, boiling an egg, or throwing a boomerang. |
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The Art and Science of Dunking | 1 |
How Does a Scientist Boil an Egg? | 23 |
The Tao of Tools | 42 |
How to Add Up Your Supermarket Bill | 77 |
How to Throw a Boomerang | 92 |
Catch as Catch Can | 108 |
Bath Foam Beer Foam and the Meaning | 121 |
A Question of Taste | 146 |
The Physics of Sex | 171 |
Coda | 189 |
Appendices | 195 |
Notes and References | 205 |
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Էջ 209 - It frequently happens, that in the ordinary affairs and occupations of life, opportunities present themselves of contemplating some of the most curious operations of Nature; and very interesting philosophical experiments might often be made, almost without trouble or expense, by means of machinery contrived for the mere mechanical purposes of the arts and manufactures.