Electricity
Title:
Electricity
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Discusses the properties of electricity and describes how it is made and used.
Other Title:
Eyewitness electricity
Year Published:
2005
Series:
Physical Description:
72 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Edition:
Rev. ed.
Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
A mysterious force -- Ideas about electricity -- The quest for knowledge -- Collecting electric charge -- Using charges -- A flow of charge -- Electricity from chemicals -- Circuits and conductors -- Resisting electricity -- Measuring and quantifying -- Magnetism from electricity -- Electromagnets -- Electromagnets at work -- Discoveries using electricity -- Electricity from magnetism -- Magneto-electric machines -- Making things move -- Manipulating electricity -- Early electricity supplies -- The power station -- Electricity in the home -- Electrical appliances -- Electricity and medicine -- Heat, pressure, and light -- Investigating cathode rays -- Communicating with electricity -- Talking with electricity -- Communicating without wires -- Television and the future -- Did you know? -- Life without electricity.
Reading Grade level:
4-8
Grade Interest level:
4-8
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader UG 8.5 1.0 quiz: 11061
Reading Counts! 8.9 6.0 Q16355
ISBN:
9780756613976
Publisher:
New York : Dorling Kindersley Pub., c2005.
