文档介绍：Secrets of the Universe
by Paul Fleisher
s Lerner pany • Minneapolis
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Copyright © 2002 by Paul Fleisher
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The text for this book has been adapted from a single-volume work entitled
Secrets of the Universe: Discovering the Universal Laws of Science, by Paul
Fleisher, originally published by Atheneum in 1987. Illustrations by Tim
Seeley missioned by Lerner pany. New back
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fleisher, Paul.
Liquids and gases : principles of fluid mechanics / by Paul Fleisher.
p. cm. —(Secrets of the universe)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN 0-8225-0650-5
1. Fluid mechanics—Juvenile literature. [1. Liquids. 2. Gases.] I. Title.
2002
532–dc21 00-011785
Manufactured in the United States of America
1 2 3 4 5 6 – JR – 07 06 05 04 03 02
Contents
Introduction: What Is a Natural Law? . . . . . . . . .6
1. Archimedes’ Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
2. Pascal’s Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
How Liquids Behave
3. Boyle’s and Charles’s Laws . . . . . . . . . . .27
How Gases Behave
4. Bernoulli’s Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Biographies of Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
For Further Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Selected Bibliography . . . . . . . .