Heavy-duty science projects with weight : how much does it weigh?

Author

Robert Gardner

Call Number

• J 530.81 G (OSH)

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Publication Information

Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2003.

Physical Description

48 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents

• Safety first
• Weighing in
• More weighing in
• Weight and position
• Gravity and different weights
• Measuring weight: a "spring" scale
• Weight and friction
• Becoming weightless
• Seesaws, weights, distances, and levers
• Levers to lift weights
• Inclined plane
• Measuring weight with a balance
• Can you weigh air?
• Weighing air
• Some effects of air's weight
• Defying gravity
• Defying gravity again
• Using a siphon to defy gravity
• Forces other than gravity.