Informative, easy-to-use guide to everyday science questions, concepts and fundamentals celebrates its twenty-fifth year and over one million copies sold!
Science is everywhere, and it affects everything! DNA and CRISPR. Artificial sweeteners. Sea level changes caused by melting glaciers. Gravitational waves. Bees in a colony. The human body. Microplastics. The largest active volcano. Designer dog breeds. Molecules. The length of the Grand Canyon. Viruses and retroviruses. The weight of a cloud. Forces, motion, energy, and inertia. It can often seem complex and complicated, but it need not be so difficult to understand. The thoroughly updated and completely revised fifth edition of The Handy Science Answer Book makes science and its impact on the world fun and easy to understand.
Clear, concise, and straightforward, this informative primer covers hundreds of intriguing topics, from the basics of math, physics, and chemistry to the discoveries being made about the human body, stars, outer space, rivers, mountains, and our entire planet. It covers plants, animals, computers, planes, trains, and cars. This friendly resource answers more than 1, 600 of the most frequently asked, most interesting, and most unusual science questions, including …
For anyone wanting to know how the universe, Earth, plants, animals, and human beings work and fit into our world, this informative book also includes a helpful bibliography, and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness. It will help anyone’s science questions!
Inhaltsverzeichnis
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Overview
2. Mathematics
3. Physics
4. Chemistry
5. Astronomy and Space
6. Geology and Earth Sciences
7. Meteorology and Climatology
8. Biology
9. Genetics
10. Botany
11. Zoology
12. Anatomy and Physiology
13. Ecology
14. Applied Science and Technology
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Über den Autor
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has answered hundreds of thousands of questions in the fields of science and technology. Established in 1902, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh was the first major library to devote a separate department to science and technology. Since then, it has patiently answered reference questions from patrons at a rate of more than 80, 000 per year. The answers to many of those questions have been collected and compiled for The Handy Science Answer Book.
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