Title:
Your guide to electricity and magnetism / Gill Arbuthnott ; illustrated by Marc Mones.
ISBN:
9780778733980
9780778733997
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Catharines, Ontario ; New York, NY : Crabtree Publishing Company, 2017.
Physical Description:
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
General Note:
"First published in 2016 by A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc"--Title page verso.
Contents:
The mighty atom -- Static electricity -- Electric and magnetic charges -- From frogs to Frankenstein -- Simple electric circuits -- The volt -- Magnetic elements -- Earth's magnetic field -- Compasses -- What's that light in the sky? -- What do magnets do for us? -- Electricity from magnets -- Let there be light! -- Which lightbulb? -- DC and AC: the war of the currents -- Generating electricity in power stations -- Distributing electricity -- Electric animals -- Fossil fuels -- Renewables -- Other renewable fuels -- Transistors -- Semiconductors -- The future -- Try it yourself -- Timeline.
Summary:
"From static electricity to babysitting robots, discover everything you never knew about electricity and magnetism. You'll be "attracted" to the awesome science facts, and "shocked" at how easy the experiments are to do. Find out...Why some animals have electricity inside them ; What happens when you switch on a light or turn on the TV ; How to make your very own magnet! Discover the answers to these and much much more in this incredible introduction to electricity and magnetism"--Back of book.
Added Author:
Interest age level:
Age 10-14.
Interest grade level:
Grade 7 to 8.
Audience:
920L Lexile
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Series Sequence:
OCLC Number:
ocn960043612
Availability:
South St. Paul - Kaposia~1
