Product Description: Explore the world of heating and cooling with engaging text, real life examples and fun step-by-step experiments. This book brings the science of temperature to life, explaining the concepts then getting kids to be hands-on scientists!

Heat energy is found everywhere, including the Suns rays and the Earths heat under the ground. This volume defines heat and thermal energy, explains the states of matter, explores measuring heat, and outlines other basic concepts of heat energy. Sidebars profile ways that heat is measured and explain concepts of thermal energy. Photographs illustrate common sources of heat energy that can be identified in everyday life.

Product Description: Introduces thermodynamics, presents a history of the field, and discusses the advances in thermometry.Title: Discovering ThermodynamicsAuthor: Kantrowitz, JosephPublisher: Rosen Pub GroupPublication Date: 2011/08/15Number of Pages: 112Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 201004599...read more

Discusses the scientific principles behind the laws of conservation of matter, the combination of elements, the periodic table, and the first and second law of thermodynamics, and describes the work of the scientists who discovered them.

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