Titre:
Electricity
PERSONAL_AUTHOR_EPSB:
Sommaire:
Discusses the properties of electricity and describes how it is made and used.
EBSP_VARIANT_TITLE:
Eyewitness electricity
Date de publication comme intervalle:
2005
SERIES_EPSB:
Description matérielle:
72 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Edition:
Rev. ed.
Note générale:
Includes index.
Table des matières:
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.
Informations sur le programme:
Accelerated Reader UG 8.5 1.0 quiz: 11061
Reading Counts! 8.9 6.0 Q16355
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9780756613976
Informations de publication:
New York : Dorling Kindersley Pub., c2005.
