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1) Light
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"This title will explain what light is and how it travels in waves. It also explains how humans see light with their eyes as color! It is complete with carefully chosen photographs and labeled diagrams to help visual learners. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." -- Amazon.com.
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Sunlight and moonlight, reflections and rainbows. Light is everywhere you look. But where does it come from? How does it make shadows? Readers will learn the answers to these questions and more through easy-to-read text and vivid photographs. An experiment rounds out the book and provides a hands-on learning experience to encourage deeper understanding. Meets Next Generation Science Standards.
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"Blink, blink. What's that? A firefly! Such a tiny insect, but its light seems so bright in the darkness. Light is something we take for granted -- especially in the age of electricity. Where does light come from? How does it work? What is it made of? This lyrical picture book answers all of these questions, taking young children on a journey of scientific discovery and offering a charming and gentle introduction to light and all its mysteries. Kids...
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Intermediate and advanced art students receive a broad vocabulary of effects with this in-depth study of light. Topics include basics, use of light to define form and space, field effects, colored light, and many other subjects. Diagrams and paintings illustrate applications of principles to figure, still life, and landscape paintings.
5) Negative Mass and Negative Refractive Index in Atom Nuclei - Nuclear Wave Equation - Gravitational a
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Some efforts have been made to prove negative mass behavior through some experiments performed in mechanics, and other disciplines as well as some theories in electrostatics, but I haven't found research about similar effects at the atomic level, where the most elementary mass given by the atomic nucleus is to be found.Is the second Newton's law still valid with negative mass?What could happen if we make the atom behave in a negative mass regime?Is...
6) The darkness manifesto: on light pollution, night ecology, and the ancient rhythms that sustain life
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"In the tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful look at the hidden impact of light pollution, and a passionate appeal to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own wellbeing, and all life on earth. How much light is too much light? Satellite pictures show our planet as a brightly glowing orb, and in our era of constant illumination, light pollution has become a major issue. The world's flora...
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"Young readers will learn how colors are made in this accessible, photo-filled book. Simple text explains why people see different colors and how materials reflect light to make the colors. Vibrant photos give life to basic science concepts and encourage kids to explore the colors they see every day"--
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Thirteen-year-old Joan loves the outdoors; she loves looking up at the night sky and finding the constellations. She learns that all the light humans use is harming that beautiful natural world. All those car headlights and bright city lights make it difficult to truly see the stars in the sky. There is also a dire effect on birds and animals. Joan Marie Galat introduces the idea of light pollution to young scientists its effects on birds, animals...
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TIME IS AN ILLUSION Chris Griscom shares the insights gained by her revolutionary enlightenment techniques. Her remarkable discovery of these energetic techniques, that stimulate ancient Chinese acupuncture points on the body called Windows to the Sky, has led to an accelerated awakening in spiritual healing and emotional balancing. With Ms. Griscom's methods, the accumulated traumas of other lifetimes can be discovered and healed, unblocking the...
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"It only takes a small spark to ignite a child's mind! Written by an expert, Optical Physics for Babies is a colorfully simple introduction to optical physics. Babies (and grownups!) will discover how light is refracted and reflected, and even how rainbows are made. With a tongue-in-cheek approach that adults will love, this installment of the Baby University board book series is the perfect way to introduce basic concepts to even the youngest scientists....
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"In this engaging title, young readers learn how visible light is the key to color! Discover how light begins with the sun and travels to Earth on electromagnetic waves, how white light actually holds the whole color spectrum, and how the eye perceives color. These properties are illustrated by the mixing of paints and pixels. Colorful infographics make the electromagnetic spectrum, wavelength, and eye anatomy easily accessible, and prominent contributors...
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This time, let's learn to measure light. This science book will teach your fifth grader that light is an energy form that can be measured using wavelengths, cycle and frequency. Also included in the discussion are the characteristics of white light such as transparency, translucency and opacity. This is a wonderful read that is inline with standard school curriculum. Get a copy today.
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It's important to keep your work life and personal life separate... right? Well, the two are about to collide for Adachi Eiko when her boss, Macaron, stumbles into a fight with her fiancé in a bar! Now, to keep her influential father from taking his anger out on Amagi Brilliant Park, Macaron will have to win him over. Can he, Seiya, and Tricen put on a show good enough to impress the discerning doctor? And what sinister magical device has Seiya arranged...
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When the happy, everyday life suddenly turns into an inescapable, cruel fate
Set in Hakone, a town surrounded by mountains in Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, the story revolves around the female protagonist Risa Akagi, a first-year high schooler who loves arts. She lives with her father, her stepmother, Riko, and her stepsister, Chiyu. Her father married Riko a few years after her mother's death.
Unlike in the fairy tale, Riko...
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The Earth had died, and its entirety had been reconstructed with clockwork. Three weeks after the attempted purge of Kyoto Grid, Marie received a mysterious transmission. She, Halter, Naoto, and RyuZU head toward Mie Grid, to investigate; however, what they find is something none of them had expected! "Big sister...please...destroy me" The thrilling second volume of the gearhead fantasy set in motion by Yuu Kamiya x Tsubaki Himana x Sino!
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Lasers play an increasingly important role in a variety of detection techniques, making inelastic light scattering a tool of growing value in the investigation of dynamic and structural problems in chemistry, biology, and physics. Until the initial publication of this work, however, no monograph treated the principles behind current developments in the field.This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the principles underlying laser light...
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Kaoru has been reincarnated in another world and receives a cheat ability that allows her to create potions as an apology for her death. After creating a commotion wherever she goes with her powers and calling upon the Goddess Celes to create miracles, her travels have led her to the Kingdom of Jusral. She opens up a medicine shop there and finally strives to live a quiet life selling her medicinal potions...but her medicine is so effective that even...
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Some people are just unlucky... right? Well, no one's as unlucky as Bando Biino, a high school girl who just got hired at Amagi Brilliant Park. Accidents and bloodshed just seem to follow Biino around, so if Acting Manager Kanie Seiya wants to stand a chance of reaching their attendance quota by the end of the year, he may have no choice but to fire her. By putting their fate in the hands of a distractible doctor from another world, can they save...
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This invaluable practical guide shows how to set up working models of telescopes, microscopes, photographic lenses and projecting systems, then shows how to conduct experiments for determining accuracy, resolving power, identifying aberration, and more. Only elementary mathematics required. Index. 234 diagrams.
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