Overview
Featuring easy-to-read and -understand chronologies, biographies, glossary entries, and charts, measurements, and formulas, students, teachers, and general readers will consider these books primary one-stop resources for quick answers to frequently asked science questions. Among the topics covered are: acceleration, boiling point, catalyst, electrolyte, gamma radiation, inertia, relative atomic mass, white dwarf, x-rays. Biographies include: Alexander Graham Bell, Pierre Curie, Christian Doppler, Albert Einstein, Euclid, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Hans William Geiger, Stephen Hawking. A multitude of tables, charts, and diagrams include: physical quantities, intensity and loudness, SI units, electrical and electronic circuit symbols, electromagnetic spectrum, types of energy, lenses, radioactivity.Synopsis
Featuring easy-to-read and -understand chronologies, biographies, glossary entries, and charts, measurements, and formulas, students, teachers, and general readers will consider these books primary one-stop resources for quick answers to frequently asked science questions. Among the topics covered are: acceleration, boiling point, catalyst, electrolyte, gamma radiation, inertia, relative atomic mass, white dwarf, x-rays. Biographies include: Alexander Graham Bell, Pierre Curie, Christian Doppler, Albert Einstein, Euclid, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Hans William Geiger, Stephen Hawking. A multitude of tables, charts, and diagrams include: physical quantities, intensity and loudness, SI units, electrical and electronic circuit symbols, electromagnetic spectrum, types of energy, lenses, radioactivity.
Booknews
This physics handbook is one in a set of four, the other three on chemistry, earth science, and biology. As with all the volumes, this one is divided into four sections: a nicely illustrated glossary of terms, 50-100 word biographies of personalities from Thales to Andrew Wiles, chronologies of events (6,000 BCE-1993), and essential charts and tables. Of great use to high schoolers and undergraduates but of limited use beyond. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)