This book from the Life of Fred series is meant to be used between the Decimals and Percents and the Pre-Algebra 1 with Biology. In it you’ll find the Human Face of Elementary Physics as Fred does physics before algebra.

Learn . . .

How ducks and cows pronounce μ differently
Why no one can weigh 55 kilograms
How Kingie could move a safe that Superman couldn’t
. . . and even some elementary physics
All fun!

Just open & enjoy

Here’s a taste of what’s inside:

Numerals
Making models
Nineteen conversion factor problems
Area of a rectangle
Friction independent of speed
Constants of Proportionality
Exact speed of light
Continuous and discrete variables
Story of the meter
Pendulums
Oblate spheroids
Krypton vs. kryptonite
Square roots
Pilgrims in Massachusetts in 1620
Hard c and soft c
Normal forces
Coefficient of friction
Solving d = rt for r
How ducks pronounce mu
Graphing points
Ordered pairs
Why rocks stop falling
Hunch-conjecture-theory-law
Simultaneity doesn’t exist
Inductive and deductive reasoning
How fossils and astronomy are connected
Hooke’s law
Four ways to stretch a spring
Three meanings of plastic
Static vs. kinetic friction
Nine forms of energy
Energy Cards game
Calamari spaghetti
Poetry of Christina Rossetti
Most filmed spot in the world
Getting grass stains out of pants
Experimentally finding the coefficient of static friction without knowing the weight of the object
How you know you have a liver
Resolving a vector into its components
Addition of vectors
Similar triangles
Slope
Physicists think that there isn’t any work in holding a bowling ball
Kelvin temperature
Law of conservation of energy
Perpetual motion machines
Kilowatt-hours
Photosynthesis
Metric system
Gregorian calendar
Two ways to measure mass
Definition of pi
Inertia
Newton’s first and second laws
Why cramming doesn’t work well
Definition of pressure
Exponents
Density of neutron stars
Computing the mass of an iron atom
Cavalieri’s principle
Pressure at a given depth
Special glass in auto windshields
Buoyancy
Finding the volume of a desk lamp
80-pound rubber ducky
Official rules of golf
Advantages of cerebrospinal fluid
Air has mass
Why 35-foot straws don’t work
You are alive because ice floats
Gedankenexperiments
How water fountains work
Elliptical constructions
Galvani and dead frogs that twitch
Birds sitting on high-voltage power lines
How to buy a cafe
Placing question marks at the end of a quotation
Schematic drawings in electrical circuits
Electrons per second in an ampere
Why we wear clothes on days ending in y
Ohm’s law
Batteries in series
Computing resistance in parallel circuits
Dangers of electricity—Thomas Merton
Museums in New York City
History of the atom
Democritus
Isaac Newton
Henri Becquerel
J. J. Thomson
Ernest Rutherford
Niels Bohr
Principal quantum number
Arnold Sommerfeld
Louis de Broglie
C. J. Divisson and L. H. Germer
Orbital quantum number
Orbital magnetic quantum number
Spin magnetic quantum number
Wolfgang Pauli
Werner Heisenberg
Paul Dirac
Carl David Anderson
Positron.