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CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE

1.	Gravitation	1
	1. A real place where things weigh nothing and where there is no up or down	1
	2. "Water seeks its own level"	6
	3. The sea of compressed air in which we live: Air pressure	10
	4. Sinking and floating: Displacement	23
	5. How things are kept from toppling over: Stability	29

2.	Molecular Attraction	36
	6. How liquids are absorbed: Capillary attraction	36
	7. How things stick to one another: Adhesion	41
	8. The force that makes a thing hold together: Cohesion	44
	9. Friction	49

3.	Conservation of Energy	57
	10. Levers	57
	11. Inertia	66
	12. Centrifugal force	72
	13. Action and reaction	77
	14. Elasticity	82

4.	Heat	88
	15. Heat makes things expand	88
	16. Cooling from expansion	94
	17. Freezing and melting	96
	18. Evaporation	100
	19. Boiling and condensing	107
	20. Conduction of heat and convection	116

5.	Radiant Heat and Light	122
	21. How heat gets here from the sun; why things glow when they become very hot	122
	22. Reflection	129
	23. The bending of light: Refraction	136
	24. Focus	142
	25. Magnification	150
	26. Scattering of light: Diffusion of light	158
	27. Color	161

6.	Sound	174
	28. What sound is	174
	29. Echoes	183
	30. Pitch	185

7.	Magnetism and Electricity	190
	31. Magnets; the compass	190
	32. Static electricity	196

8.	Electricity	203
	33. Making electricity flow	203
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