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Explorations in Physics: An Activity-Based Approach to Understanding the World (0471324248) cover image
Explorations in Physics: An Activity-Based Approach to Understanding the World
ISBN: 978-0-471-32424-9
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368 pages
July 2002, ©2003
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Module 1: Motion, Forces, and Scientific Theories
1.1 The Measurement Process
1.2 Analyzing Motions
1.3 Force and Motion
1.4 Using Newton's Laws to Investigate the Real World
1.5 Project Ideas

Module 2: Pressure, Wind, and Weather
2.1 Forces from Gases
2.2 Measuring Pressure
2.3 Wind
2.4 Pressure and Wind Components of Simple Weather Phenomena
2.5 Project Ideas

Module 3: Heat, Temperature, and Cloud Formation
3.1 Experimenting and Hypothesizing
3.2 The Distinction between Heat and Temperature
3.3 Evaporation, Condensation, and Humidity
3.4 Cloud Formation
3.5 Project Ideas

Module 4: Light, Sight, and Rainbows
4.1 How is Information About the Outside World Transmitted to Our Eyes?
4.2 From Light to Sight
4.3 Color: How Can We See It?
4.4 The Real World -
Rainbows, Blue Skies, and Sunsets
4.5 Project Ideas
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