欢迎你来到奇妙的物理世界!Bob Bonnet＆Dan Keen著的《我们身边的物理知识(英汉对照双语读物)》介绍了许多物理学领域中的实验。物理学是研究无生命物体“如何运动”以及“为什么”会处于某一状态的一门科学。它解释了电冰箱如何使食物保持低温；把气球中的气体放掉为什么会使气球在屋子里乱飞；以及是什么东西使步话机工作的。物理学告诉我们为什么我们先看到闪电然后才听到雷声。物理学帮助我们解开了许多周围世界的谜。

Project

1 Magnetic Water The effect of water on magnetism

2 A Swinging Good Time Pendulum motion

3 Man on a Tight Rope Wave motion 

4 Rub the Right Way Friction and surfaces

5 The Mighty Mo Momentum : a product of velocity times mass

6 Hot Rocks Heat transfer from one medium to another 

7 Smaller Is Stronger Testing tensile strength

8 Up to Speed Acceleration in a bottle

9 Bad Manners Heat conduction and heat sinking

10 Watt? Comparing light output and power consumption

11 Room for Brightness Reflected light

12 Down-Range Shooter Trajectory: curved path through the air

13 Get a Handle Wheei and axle,a sinzpie mathine

14 Balance the Books First-class letver,a simple machine

15 We Are #2 Second-and thrid-class levers

16 Bottled Force Kinetic and potential energy

17 WaterMaker Solar radiation

18 An Uphill Battle Kinetic energy and the transfer of energy

19 Cellular Can Transmitting sound by vibrating materials

20 Singin'in the Shower Acoustics:the behaviar of confined sound

21 Far of the Beholder Pleasant sounds poersus "noise"

22 The Sound of Time Amplifying sound

23 Blown Away Fluidics: air flow around shapes

24 Balancing Act Objects at rest tend to stayat rest

25 Floating Along Buoyancy: the ability to stay uP

26 Flying in Circles Air friction : sometimes good,sometimes not

27 Pop a Treat The physics of popcorm

28 Unwelcome Gusts Comparingand measuring wind strengths

29 A Lopsided Pinwheel Balancing points of cxidly shaped objects

30 Get the Point Changes aJfecting surface areas

31 Break the Beam E．Tcploring SODle characteristics of light

32 Now Soft／Now Loud Amplifying sound throught reflection

33 Plant First Aid Collecting light to benefit plants

34 Hot Light Comtmring waste heat from bulbs

35 Crash! The relationship between mass and force

36 Bigger Water Temperature’S expansion／contraction effects

37 Look at the Sound Might speed faster than sound speed

38 Work=Force×Distance The wedge，a simple machine

39 Water Shooter Compressing a fluid

40 Siphon Fun Water drains to ozon level

41 Whirring Button Torque：changing the direction offorce

42 Toy Story 7brque-energy storage in a homemade toy

43 Walls Don’t Move Newton’s 3rd：action and reaction

44 Sandwater Erosion caUsed by friction of glacial ice

45 Back in Shape The characteristics of elasticity

46 Don’t Fret Changing pitch by varying string tension

47 Space Saver The concept of volume

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