What Is the World Made Of? All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2)

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Did you ever walk through a wall? Drink a glass of blocks? Have you ever played with a lemonade doll, or put on milk for socks? This latest addition to the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series introduces the youngest readers to an important science concept: the differences between solids, liquids, and gases. Any child who wants to know why he can't walk through a wall will enjoy Kathleen Zoehfeld's simple text and Paul Meisel's playful illustrations.

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Cute, funny and scientifically sound........2007-10-02

Young children will be entertained and educated by What's the World Made of?, finding out about the three states of matter. With lots of funny, silly illustrations and some scientific observations of everyday stuff, this slim volume will stimulate readers to learn more about the suject and become increasingly aware of the world around them.

Excellent.

Great book!.......2007-02-17

Ordered this for my son's 6th birthday and he really enjoyed it! It's great at explaining it at a "kid level" and he giggled througout the book!

Science Made Fun & Easy.......2006-07-04

I have a 6-yr old boy and a 7-yr old girl. It's very rare to find anything that they agree on but with What Is the World Made Of? I was able to find a book that both of them would enjoy and learn from at the same time. The easy-to-follow language made it easy for them both to follow along. The fun pictures and odd bits of humor kept them interested and wanting to know more. A fantastic find & one I hope to be able to use for quite some time.

Great for Teachers!!!.......2005-10-24

This book is an excellent way to introduce solids, liquids, and gases. I used it with a 3rd grade class and it was perfect!

wonderful science/literature connection.......1999-07-12

this is an excellent literature connection for young children studying the concept of matter. it works well with the foss science module, "solids and liquids" for students in grades one and two.

International Tables for Crystallography,Volume D: Physical properties of crystals (International Tables for Crystallography)

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International Tables for Crystallography,Volume D: Physical properties of crystals (International Tables for Crystallography)

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ASIN: 1402007140

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Volume D is concerned with the influence of symmetry on the physical and tensor properties of crystals and on their structural phase transitions. This role is very important in many different disciplines of the science of materials, such as crystallography, elasticity, solid-state physics, magnetism, optics, ferroelectricity and mineralogy, and Volume D deals with all these aspects in a unified way. The book is accompanied by a CD containing two pieces of software, one which supports Chapters 1.1 and 1.2 for the determination of irreducible group representations and tensor components, and one which supports Part 3 on structural phase transitions. Part 1 introduces the mathematical properties of tensors and group representations and gives their independent components for each of the crystallographic groups. The software included in the accompanying CD enables one to determine the irreducible representations of finite point groups in three dimensions (the 32 crystallographic groups and the groups of quasicrystalline phases) and the independent components of a tensor of any rank for each of these groups. As examples, several tensor properties of crystals are described: elastic properties, thermal expansion, magnetic properties, linear and nonlinear optical properties, transport properties and atomic displacement parameters, of special interest to crystallographers. A separate chapter is devoted to the particular case of tensors in quasiperiodic structures. Part 2 is devoted to the symmetry aspects of excitations in reciprocal space: phonons, electrons, Raman scattering and Brillouin scattering. Part 3 deals with the symmetry aspects of structural phase transitions and twinning. A prominent feature is the joint description of twinning and domain structures, which are usually presented in completely separate ways in handbooks of physics and mineralogy. The theory of structural phase transitions relates the symmetry characteristics of the transitions to their physical characteristics. The application of the symmetry principles that derive from this theory is illustrated by the tables contained in the accompanying CD. The CD also contains tables of tensor properties at any group-subgroup phase transition. Volume D was recently reviewed by M. Moore (Crystallography News, No. 90, September 2004, pp. 11-12).

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Physics of Ice
Victor F. Petrenko , and Robert W. Whitworth
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0198518943

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Ice is one of the most abundant and environmentally important materials on Earth, and its unique and intriguing physical properties present fascinating areas of study for a wide variety of researchers. This book is about the physics of ice, by which is meant the properties of the material itself and the ways in which these properties are interpreted in terms of water molecules and crystalline structure. Although ice has a simple crystal structure its hydrogen bonding results in unique properties, which continue to be the subject of active research. In this book the physical principles underlying the properties of ice are carefully developed at a level aimed at pure and applied researchers in the field. Important topics like current understandings of the electrical, mechanical, and surface properties, and the occurrence of many different crystalline phases are developed in a coherent way for the first time. An extensive reference list and numerous illustrations add to the usefulness and readability of the text.

The Zodiac Series: Earth (Liquid Silver Books)

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The Zodiac Series: Earth (Liquid Silver Books)
Dee S. Knight, Emma Bruce, Keira Ramsay, Cyndi Redding
Manufacturer: Atlantic Bridge Publishing: Liquid Silver Books
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ASIN: 1595782443
Release Date: 2007-03-22

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Magnetic Ions in Crystals
K.W.H. Stevens
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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There have been many demonstrations, particularly for magnetic impurity ions in crystals, that spin-Hamiltonians are able to account for a wide range of experimental results in terms of much smaller numbers of parameters. Yet they were originally derived from crystal field theory, which contains a logical flaw; electrons on the magnetic ions are distinguished from those on the ligands. Thus there is a challenge: to replace crystal field theory with one of equal or greater predictive power that is based on a surer footing. The theory developed in this book begins with a generic Hamiltonian, one that is common to most molecular and solid state problems and that does not violate the symmetry requirements imposed on electrons and nuclei. Using a version of degenerate perturbation theory due to Bloch and the introduction of Wannier functions, projection operators, and unitary transformations, Stevens shows that it is possible to replace crystal field theory as a basis for the spin-Hamiltonians of single magnetic ions and pairs and lattices of magnetic ions, even when the nuclei have vibrational motion. The power of the method is further demonstrated by showing that it can be extended to include lattice vibration and conduction by electron hopping such as probably occurs in high-Tc superconductors. Thus Stevens shows how an apparently successful ad hoc method of the past can be replaced by a much more soundly based one that not only incorporates all the previous successes but appears to open the way to extensions far outside the scope of the previously available methods. So far only some of these have been explored. The book should therefore be of great interest to all physicists and chemists concerned with understanding the special properties of molecules and solids that are imposed by the presence of magnetic ions.

The Surface Chemistry of Natural Particles

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Environmental Chemistry at the Interface

The Surface Chemistry of Natural Particles
Garrison Sposito
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195117808

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This book covers the development of both experiment and theory in natural surface particle chemistry. It emphasizes insights gained over the past few years, and concentrates on molecular spectroscopy, kinetics, and equilibrium as they apply to natural particle surface reactions in aqueous media. The discussion, divided among five chapters, is complemented by lengthy annotations, reading suggestions, and end-of-chapter problem sets that require a critical reading of important technical journal articles.

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Environmental Chemistry at the Interface.......2004-06-09

This is an outstanding text written by an internationally recognized authority in the field of surface geochemistry of aqueous systems. Reactions on particle surfaces in freshwaters, soils and aquifers are among the most important chemical processes affecting water quality and biogeochemical cycles. In this book, Dr. Sposito builds upon the foundations of his earlier (1984) popular advanced textbook, "The Surface Chemistry of Soils", to synthesize and highlight new findings and conceptual understandings that have resulted from active research worldwide over the past 20 years into the interfacial chemistry of natural particles. The text emphasizes mechanistic interpretations of surface chemistry, as revealed by a thoughtful synthetic review of macroscopic, kinetic, modeling and spectroscopic studies.

The book would be a fine choice as a text for graduate level courses in aqueous surface geochemistry. It will be read widely and referenced often by practitioners in this active field of science.

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Actually, I'd say 4 1/2 stars/very readable!

A futuristic novel poised at the edges of reality

Got halfway through, couldn't finish it

The seed to grow thoughts

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Liquid Earth (Neoreality Series)
Clifford A. Pickover
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Sex, Drugs, Einstein & Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes and the Quest for Transcendence

Time: A Traveler's Guide

ASIN: 0971482764

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This groundbreaking science-fiction collection explores worlds separated from our own by imperceptible veils. In Liquid Earth, reality melts along a rustic Main Street in Shrub Oak, New York. The Lobotomy Club begins in a New Orleans bar, and Sushi Never Sleeps in a New York electronics store. Egg Drop Soup starts with a walk along the tranquil Chesapeake River. All familiar settings at first glance, but a new reality awaits...

You'll visit worlds replete with beautiful women and their surgically altered brains, fractal sex, Noah's Ark, hyperspace physics, hallucinating androids, prophetic ants, exotic sushi, satanic aliens, vitamin B-12, novel plastics, cosmic wormholes, and quests for God and the structure of ultimate reality.

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Actually, I'd say 4 1/2 stars/very readable!.......2005-06-28

If your looking for a refreshing novel written by a contemporary author, this book is a must read. If you like alternative realities, this book is a must read. After finishing it, I had my first acid flashback in years! I look forward to reading the rest of the Neoreality series-as well as many of the other books written by this extremely prolific writer/thinker.

A futuristic novel poised at the edges of reality.......2004-12-13

A futuristic novel poised at the edges of reality

Finally! The science-fiction liquid you always wanted to dive in! The plot is delicious, weird, compelling and insane - all at the same time.
Clifford Pickover's brilliant, extraordinary imagination introduces technical and emotional surprises, and forces the reader to reevaluate his or her ordinary notions of consensus reality. Hop on board, as you ready yourself to
explore strange parallel realities in a hyper-dimensional journey along a rustic, cobblestone Main Street.

Yes, the plot is dense with details and twists. You'll encounter androids with poetic souls, and a looping, fractal Romeo and Juliet tale that teeters on the edge of this world and a world to come. But the book is not simply about odd ideas. It centers on friendship, romance, and love, which are eternal.

The themes and images will haunt and uplift you. Who knows? The reality fractures in the book might just happen anytime in your own town. They might be lurking just around the corner you pass every day when going to gym, work, school or while just enjoying shopping. Be prepared. And I can assure you -- after reading Liquid Earth, you'll pay much more attention to the ordinary- looking shopping aisles at your local supermarket. Or - more precisely - you'll never look at any grocery store in the same way ever again.

Got halfway through, couldn't finish it.......2004-09-09

I thought the forward was great, and had high expectations for the book itself. However, I found it to be nearly unreadable. The author's basic storytelling skills are unfortunately non-existant. Much of the book is full of little detours that are pointless and do not add to the story. I kept waiting for something really cool to happen, and nothing did. Maybe the second half is great, but I couldn't make it.

The seed to grow thoughts.......2003-11-19

There are thick and heavy books whose ideas can easily fit into one sentence and there are books like this one where each sentence is the seed you can grow into a plenteous tree of thoughts. Seemingly familiar things are turned into mysterious encounters and reality inter-transforms like ice into the water. But after all who told that the reality is not governed by the same laws as the matter and can be present in gas, liquid or solid forms? Or even a couple of hundred of others which are still on the way of discovering. The same way as A. Einstein proved that time depends on speed this book proves once again that the reality depends on time of observation. Is not it a nice sequence?

An Apt Statement of the Times.......2002-11-26

"Liquid Earth" reads like one of Pickover's on-line experiments in
collaborative writing. It is like the Internet, itself -- a
stream of collective consciousness. The book also depicts
something like a human reaction to information overload, living on
Moore's Law accelerating cultural curve. Living in a Fracturing
Reality is like experiencing landmark buildings crashing to the
ground for no good reason. The book is in fact poignantly
topical. It inspires reflection.

Handbook of Polymer-Liquid Interaction Parameters and Solubility Parameters

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Handbook of Polymer-Liquid Interaction Parameters and Solubility Parameters
Allan F.M. Barton
Manufacturer: CRC
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ASIN: 0849335442

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Now available for the first time, this valuable reference presents polymer solubility parameters and various polymer-liquid interaction parameters in an easy-to-use form. It critically evaluates and comprehensively compiles data from original sources. It presents these quantities polymer-by-polymer, alphabetically by polymer common chemical name, fully cross-referenced by systematic chemical names, alternative names and trade names. This one-of-a-kind handbook summarizes the relationship between the various quantities and their methods of determination. This resource is an absolute must for all who are interested in the chemical industry, specifically polymer chemistry, chemical engineering, applied chemistry, and physical chemistry.

Liquids In My World/ Los Liquidos En Mi Mundo (Powerkids Readers: My World of Science)

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Liquids In My World/ Los Liquidos En Mi Mundo (Powerkids Readers: My World of Science)
Joanne Randolph
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The champagne of acoustics or the acoustics of champagne?
The Acoustic Bubble
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The Acoustic Bubble
T. G. Leighton
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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ASIN: 0124419216

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"This volume deals with the interaction of acoustic fields with bubbles in liquids, with emphasis on the principles of cavitation--the generation of bubbles in liquids by rapid changes, such as those introduced by ultrasound. When cavity bubbles implode they produce shock waves in the liquid. If cavitation is induced by turbulent flow, components can be damaged. These phenomena have important implications, particularly in underwater acoustics, one of the fastest growing fields in acoustics research. The Acoustic Bubble skillfully explains the physical processes involved in cavitation both by analogy and formulation, making the concepts accessible to those with a minimal background in mathematics. This book willbe of great interest to those engaged in research in a wide range of areas, from sonochemistry to the sensitization of explosives.

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The champagne of acoustics or the acoustics of champagne?.......2005-04-07

This is a fine book about an important topic in acoustics. If the field of acoustics is like a bunch of fine wines, this is the champagne!

Acoustic bubbles have many manifestations. These include clinical ultrasound as well as ocean acoustics. It is worthwhile for someone who wishes to be an expert on one of these topics to become familiar with some other applications the study of acoustic bubbles.

The first chapter covers the fundamentals of waves, sound, and wavefronts. Of course, special attention is placed on sound in solid and liquid media. And we also learn about the generation of ultrasound, simulated sound fields, and nonlinear effects in underwater ultrasound beams.

The second chapter teaches us about bubbles. We learn about the tensile strength of liquids, so we'll know what it takes to make them cavitate. And we learn about Rayleigh collapse, so we'll know what it takes to produce decavitation. Next, we review (I hope it is a review!) fluid dynamics, and look at the problem of a rigid sphere moving through a liquid.

In the third chapter, we get to a powerful analogy to a bubble in a liquid, namely a bob of a specified mass attached to a spring. After a quick review of unforced oscillators, we get to the Minnaert frequency (the natural frequency of a spherical gas bubble in a liquid for low-amplitude simple harmonic motion). It's interesting to see if we can thus approximate the sounds of brooks, waterfalls, rainfall, or the ocean.

The next chapter gets us to a discussion of the interaction between a bubble and the sound wave that can drive it into oscillation. We still use the analogy of the bob on a spring, but now we're dealing with a driven oscillator (the author assures us that this is a better approximation that trying to predict the outcome of a horse race by assuming a spherically symmetrical horse). We learn about acoustic emissions from these bubbles, chaotic oscillations of bubbles, and so forth. We're still basically dealing with individual bubbles, of course.

The final chapter deals with the real behavior of acoustic bubble systems. That includes topics such as detection of bubbles, bubble motion and stabilization, and use of bubbles in ultrasonic surgery. And, of course, sonoluminescence, for which there is a discussion of mechanisms as well as what is now a particularly, um, hot topic, temperatures of imploding bubbles.

I enjoyed reading this book. I'll never listen to champagne the same way again.

The Acoustic Bubble.......2001-06-28

This is what the professional and scientific journals said about this book when they reviewed it.

"One can only effervesce with praise... both comprehensive and readable - that informs the expert and educates the novice... The reader is well served by the author's careful attention to detail, extensive table of symbols (..), excellent use of photographs and graphics, and extraordinarily comprehensive bibliography, and, most of all, by his lucid descriptions of phenomena...Leighton is on top of all these recent developments" (Journal of the Acoustical Society of America).

"a lovely stroll through the realms and regions of acoustic cavitation, examining it in depth and breadth... an indispensable resource...The brief discussion of cavitation nucleation is superb and probably the best available on this topic... an excellent compendium of (..) equations and dynamical approaches and is probably the best and broadest reference on this topic available... not only details the historical record but offers intuitive explanations of its own" (Journal of Sound and Vibration).

"There is no doubt that this is the most comprehensive and accessible text on acoustic cavitation available... This is a required reference for scientists and, in particular, medical physicists interested in becoming acquainted with the mathematical description of bubble dynamics and the wealth of associated physical phenomena. It is user friendly, thorough in its treatment of the theory and encyclopaedic in its coverage of the experimental literature. I have no doubts that it will become a standard text." (Scope -the journal of the Institute of Physical Science in Medicine)

"The strength of this book lies in its effortless and enjoyable coverage of a wide swathe of rather intimidating literature and its unified approach... a fascinating wealth of detail... essential reading" (Physics in Medicine and Biology).

"for the reader there is a great deal of fascination... a major achievement" (Sonic Pulse).

Not Bad.......2000-01-30

Overall this is a decent book, and most people working in this field would benefit from much of the hard to find information contained within it. The main problem I have with the book is that the author seems to be totally unaware of who his audience is. For example, at times the author appears to be writing for someone who has never had a single physics/math course, and then one paragraph later he assumes knowledge of advanced mathematical analysis. Case in point: he has been using vector calculus for a while and then suddenly feels the need to explain the difference between a vector and a scalar. Other times it goes the other way, that is, he jumps from talking about simple physical situations which are explained fairly well to complicated nonlinear situations modeled by PDEs that are not derived. Some of the equations are just given, with little explanation as to where they come from. For someone who has had courses dealing with fluid mechanics and sound waves, and has a solid mathematical background, this book is fine. However, an undergraduate not as well versed will be frustrated by the shift from lucid explanations to advanced material and back again.

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