Janice VanCleave's A+ Projects in Physics: Winning Experiments for Science Fairs and Extra Credit

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 240 pages
• Published by: Jossey-Bass July 28, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0471390178
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471390176
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 15.2 ounces

Product Description
Thirty terrific physics projects from everyones favorite science teacher

This invaluable guide to physics projects, written for middle and high school students, details how to put together projects that showcase key physics concepts. In this latest volume in her successful series of science fair project books, Janice VanCleave provides thirty comprehensive projects–on measurement, force and motion, states of matter, energy, and electricity–that come complete with illustrations, charts, diagrams, and suggestions for original projects on related topics. Whether students want to work with pendulums, lenses, or parallel circuits, this book provides the inspiration and hands-on help they need to assure science fair success.

Janice VanCleave (Riesel, TX) is a former elementary and high school science teacher who now spends her time writing and giving science workshops. She is the author of more than forty childrens science books, with sales totaling more than 2 million copies.

Book Info
Guide features thirty different topics in physics and dozens of experiment ideas for use in extra credit or science fair projects. Includes helpful illustrations and charts; exploring angular measurement, linear inertia, transfer of energy, light rays, sound waves, electricity and magnetism, terminal velocity, and more. Hardcover, softcover available.