A LABORATORY MANUAL FOR WORK IN GENERAL SCIENCE
TIME AND DISTANCE INVESTIGATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS SPEED USING A SCIENTIFIC MODEL TO PREDICT SPEED POSITION AND TIME ACCELERATION FORCE, MASS, AND ACCELERATION WEIGHT, GRAVITY, AND FRICTION EQUILIBRIUM, ACTION, AND REACTION FORCES IN MACHINES THE LEVER GEARS AND DESIGN WORK ENERGY CONSERVATION ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS WHAT IS A CIRCUIT? CHARGE VOLTAGE CURRENT RESISTANCE OHM’S LAW WORK, ENERGY, AND POWER MORE ELECTRIC CIRCUITS SERIES CIRCUITS PARALLEL CIRCUITS 10 1 PERMANENT MAGNETS 10 2 ELECTROMAGNETS 10 3 ELECTRIC MOTORS AND GENERATORS UNIT 4: SOUND AND WAVES 11 1 HARMONIC MOTION 11 2 GRAPHS OF HARMONIC MOTION 11 3 SIMPLE MECHANICAL OSCILLATORS 12 1 WAVES 12 2 WAVES IN MOTION 12 3 NATURAL FREQUENCY AND RESONANCE 13 1 SOUND 13 2 PROPERTIES OF SOUND 13 3 MUSIC UNIT 5: LIGHT AND OPTICS 14 1 INTRODUCTION TO LIGHT 14 2 COLOR 15 1 SEEING AN IMAGE 15 2 THE HUMAN EYE 15 3 OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY UNIT 6: PROPERTIES OF MATTER 16 1 CLASSIFYING MATTER 16 2 MEASURING MATTER 16 3 STATES OF MATTER 17 1 PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS 17 2 DENSITY OF FLUIDS 17 3 BUOYANCY OF FLUIDS 17 4 VISCOSITY OF FLUIDS 18 1 ATOMIC STRUCTURE 18 2 COMPARING ATOMS 18 3 THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS UNIT 7: CHANGES IN MATTER 19 1 CHEMICAL BONDS 19 2 CHEMICAL FORMULAS 19 3 COMPARING MOLECULES 20 1 CHEMICAL CHANGES 20 2 CHEMICAL EQUATIONS 20 3 CONSERVATION OF MASS 20 4 USING EQUATIONS 21 1 CLASSIFYING REACTIONS 21 2 ENERGY IN REACTIONS 22 1 NUCLEAR REACTIONS 22 2 CARBON REACTIONS UNIT 8: WATER AND THE ENVIRONMENT 23 1 WATER 23 2 SOLUTIONS 23 3 SOLUBILITY 23 4 ACIDS, BASES, AND PH 24 1 THE WATER CYCLE 24 2 WATER QUALITY 24 3 ACID RAIN 24 4 OCEANS UNIT 9: ENERGY IN THE EARTH SYSTEM 25 1 MEASURING HEAT 25 2 FLOW OF HEAT 25 3 HEAT TRANSFER 26 1 THE ATMOSPHERE 26 2 LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE 26 3 ENERGY IN THE ATMOSPHERE 27 1 VARIATIONS IN THE HEATING AND COOLING OF EARTH 27 2 GLOBAL WINDS AND OCEAN CURRENTS 27 3 WEATHER PATTERNS 27 4 STORMS 27 5 WEATHER AND CLIMATE UNIT 10: EARTH SCIENCE 28 1 UNDERSTANDING EARTH 28 2 PLATE TECTONICS 28 3 EARTHQUAKES 29 1 VOLCANOES 29 2 THE SURFACE OF EARTH 29 3 ROCKS AND MINERALS UNIT 11: ASTRONOMY 30 1 CYCLES ON EARTH 30 2 TOOLS OF ASTRONOMY 31 1 EARTH AND THE MOON 31 2 SOLAR SYSTEM 31 3 THE SUN 32 1 STARS 32 2 GALAXIES AND THE UNIVERSE UNIT PROJECTS UNIT 1: USING COMPUTER SPREADSHEETS UNIT 2: CALCULATING BICYCLE GEAR RATIOS UNIT 3: MAKING A MODEL MAGLEV TRAIN UNIT 4: MAKING PALM PIPES UNIT 5: GELATIN OPTICS UNIT 6: MEASURING SURFACE TENSION UNIT 7: RESEARCHING ENERGY SOURCES UNIT 8: WATER ON MARS UNIT 9: KEEPING A WEATHER LOG UNIT 10: RESPONDING TO NATURAL DISASTERS UNIT 11: LOOKING FOR PLANETS