Inquiry into Physical Science

A Contextual Approach Volume 3: The Automobile: Will the Gas-Driven Automobile Ever Become a Thing of the Past?

Roger Nanes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2007 | 2nd Revised edition
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-7575-5000-3 (ISBN)

Infos

New material in this edition includes:



The Electrochemical Cells Activity has been updated and extensively rewritten.
The discussion of electric and hybrid vehicles as well as fuel cells in the narrative text has been rewritten and updated to reflect the technological advances made since the first edition was first published in 2003.

Inhalt

The Automobile
Leading Question: Will the Gas-Driven Automobile Ever Become a Thing of the Past?
Chapter 1
Describing Motion: Kinematics
Preface-A Message to the Student
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Changing Position-Distance vs. Displacement
1.2.1 Distance and Displacement
1.3 Time
1.4 How Fast Does the Position Change? Speed vs. Velocity
1.4.1 Uniform Motion
1.4.2 How Good Are Your Uniform Motion Predictive Powers?
1.4.3 Speed and Velocity
Making Connections: Position, Speed and Velocity
1.5 Representing Motion
1.5.1 How Can We Represent Motion?
1.5.2 Walk The Graph
Making Connections: Representing Motion
1.6 Motion With Changing Velocity/Acceleration
1.6.1 Motion on an Incline-Acceleration
1.7 Graphical Analysis of Accelerated Motion
1.7.1 Graphical Analysis of Accelerated Motion
Making Connections: Accelerated Motion
Chapter 2
Describing Motion: Dynamics
2.1 Inertia
2.1.1 No Friction?...What If?--A "Gedanken" Experiment
Interactive Demonstrations- Inertia
2.2 What is Force?
2.2.1 "Forcing" an Object to Stay at Rest
2.3 Newton's First Law-The Law of Inertia
2.3.1 Newton's First Law
2.3.2 If Isaac Newton Worked for General Motors...
Making Connections: Inertia and Newton's First Law
2.4 Newton's Second Law
2.4.1 Newton's Second Law-Introduction
2.4.2 Newton's Second Law-Constant Mass
2.4.3 Newton's Second Law-Constant Force
2.4.4 Newton's Second Law-"Net" Force is the Key
Making Connections: Newton's Second Law
2.5 Does it Matter How Long a Force Acts? Impulse and Momentum
2.5.1 Impulse and Momentum
2.5.2 Duration of a Force- Does it Matter?
2.5.3 Conservation of Momentum
Chapter 3
Making Our Car Move
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Combustion: The "Burning" Question Is ...What's In The Fuel?
3.2.1 A Look at Combustion ... By Candlelight
3.2.2 Heat of Combustion
Making Connections: The Energy Content of Fuels
3.3 Electric Current and Electric Circuits
3.3.1 Lighting a Bulb
3.3.2 Electric Circuits
Making Connections: Electric Circuits (I)
3.3.3 A Model for Electric Current
3.3.4 Circuits With More Than One Bulb
Making Connections: Electric Circuits (II)
3.4 Voltage-Electric Charges Need a Push
3.4.1 Circuits With More Than One Battery
Making Connections: Voltage, Energy, & Multiple Battery Circuits
3.5 The Battery-An Electrochemical Pump
3.5.1 Electrochemical Cells- Batteries By The Cupful
3.5.2 (At-Home Activity)-Making A "Citrus" Battery
3.5.3 Looking Inside A Battery- Without a Flashlight
Making Connections: Electrochemical Cells
3.6 Electromagnetism
3.6.1 The Compass Needle Galvanometer
3.6.2 Making an Electric Motor
3.6.3 Making a Solenoid Electromagnet
3.6.4 A Drinking Straw Magnet
3.6.5 Induced Current & The Electric Generator
Making Connections: Electromagnetism
3.7 Putting it All Together- Will the Gas-Driven Automobile Ever Become a Thing of the Past?
Stating the Need-The Pollution-Free Automobile
Making Connections: Air Pollution
Electric Vehicles
Hybrid Vehicles
Making Connections: Electric and Hybrid Cars
Fuel Cells
Making Connections: The Fuel Cell
Making Connections: Chapter Overview
Appendix 1: "Underpinnings"
1.1 Fundamental vs. Derived Properties
1.2 Units
1.3 Area
1.4 Volume
1.4.1 Measuring Volume
Making Connections: Area and Volume
1.5 Ratios
1.6 Density
1.6.1 Understanding Density
1.7 Exponential Notation
Making Connections: The Arithmetic of Exponential Numbers
1.8 Straight Line Graphs
1.8.1 Graph­i­cal Anal­y­sis of Mass vs. Vol­ume
1.9 Curved Graphs
1.9.1 Height of Liq­uid in a Con­tain­er vs. Vol­ume
Making Connections: Density and Graphical Analysis
1.10 Let's Keep Things in Proportion
1.10.1 Understanding Proportions
Appendix 2: "Energy"
2.1 The "Money" of Nature
2.2 Storage, Transfer, and Transformation of Energy

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.12.2007
• Verlagsort: Iowa
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
• ISBN-10: 0-7575-5000-2 / 0757550002
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7575-5000-3 / 9780757550003
• Zustand: Neuware