This book by Paul Fleisher is making our homeschooling so fun! I am using it for our 6th grade science reading and our complete homeschool experiments. I must admit it has a boring cover and the principles included are not in various colors to excite the eyes, but when we turn the images into actual work in the kitchen or bathroom or school room....look out!
We've been studying some of Archimedes' works and reading various biographies about him aloud since the Great Lessons earlier in the term. So we went off into Pascal's laws, Boyles work and lastly Bernoulli's principle.
Water pressure increases with the depth of the water column. Can you see three streams of water?
Make that Cartestan diver go!
| when pressure on a gas increases, its volume decreases! |
and when you let up, it rises again.
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air in the bottle expands with heat making the balloon expand
WOW. It really worked!
Now to try another kind of balloon.
and it contracts with cold air! Neato!
I think we will try out some of his other books next term.
