Abridged Science for High School Students : The Nuclear Research Foundation School Certificate Integrated.

Front Cover -- Abridged Science for High School Students -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- THE NUCLEAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION SCHOOL CERTIFICATE INTEGRATED SCIENCE TEXTBOOK GROUP -- EDITORS AND AUTHORS OF "ABRIDGED SCIENCE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS -- Chapter 22. THE MOON -- THE CHANGING MOON -- AN EXPLANATION OF THESE CHANGES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 23. PRESSURE -- THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE -- ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE -- FLUID PRESSURE ACTS IN ALL DIRECTIONS -- FLUCTUATING PRESSURE -- MEASURING AIR PRESSURE -- ATMOSPHERE THINS OUT WITH HEIGHT -- PRESSURE IN LIQUIDS -- PASCAL'S PRINCIPLE -- BUOYANCY -- FLUIDS IN MOTION-THE BERNOULLI EFFECT -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 24. MATTER, AND FORCES BETWEEN PARTICLES -- CONDUCTION OF ELECTRICITY -- HARDNESS -- MALLEABILITY AND DUCTILITY -- CLEAVAGE -- THE ELASTICITY OF SUBSTANCES -- EXPLANATION OF STRAIN AND STRESS IN MATERIALS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 25. SOLUTIONS AND SOLUBILITY-BEHAVIOUR OF WATER -- SOLUTIONS AND SOLUBILITY -- AN EXPLANATION OF SOLUTION -- EXOTHERMIC AND ENDOTHERMIC CHANGES -- WATER AND ELEMENTS -- SUSPENSIONS AND EMULSIONS -- SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND WATER -- THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER IN LIVING ORGANISMS -- OSMOSIS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 26. BEHAVIOUR OF ACIDS, ALKALIS AND SALTS -- ACIDS AND THEIR CHEMICAL BEHAVIOUR -- ALKALIS AND THEIR CHEMICAL BEHAVIOUR -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 27. SOME IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES -- The manufacture of sulphur, sulphuric acid, soap and hydrogen -- RATES OF REACTION -- SULPHURIC ACID -- SULPHUR -- SOAP -- HARDNESS IN WATER -- HYDROGEN -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 28. HOW AN ANIMAL WORKS - I -- Food and nutrition, transporting chemicals, respiration and excretion -- FOOD AND NUTRITION -- TRANSPORTING CHEMICALS -- RESPIRATION -- EXCRETION -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 29. HOW AN ANIMAL WORKS - II -- Movement, sensitivity, growth and reproduction -- Movement -- THE SKELETON -- MUSCLES.

JOINTS -- Sensitivity in Animals -- HOW ANIMALS DETECT THEIR ENVIRONMENT -- THE SENSE OF SIGHT-THE EYE -- THE SENSE OF HEARING-THE EAR -- HOW ANIMALS BECOME AWARE OF THEIR ENVIRONMENT -- HOW ANIMALS RESPOND TO CHANGES IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT -- CHEMICAL CO-ORDINATION -- SUMMARY OF CO-ORDINATION -- Growth and Reproduction -- SEXUAL REPRODUCTION -- GROWTH -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 30. SHAPE AND STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH -- THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH -- INTERIOR OF THE EARTH -- THE CRUST OF THE EARTH -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 31. SPEED, ACCELERATION AND FORCE-NEWTON'S LAWS OF NOTION -- THE MEANING OF SPEED -- VELOCITY -- ACCELERATION -- THE ACCELERATION DUE TO GRAVITY -- AIR RESISTANCE -- WHAT CAUSES AN ACCELERATION? -- NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION -- ACTION AND REACTION-EXAMPLES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 32. MORE ABOUT ENERGY -- MECHANICAL WORK -- POTENTIAL ENERGY -- KINETIC ENERGY -- SPINNING OBJECTS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 33. HEAT ENERGY -- QUANTITY OF HEAT -- KINETIC THEORY OF HEAT -- EXPLANATION OF SOME COMMON HEAT EFFECTS IN TERMS OF THE THEORY OF HEAT -- HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY OF HEAT -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 34. MEASURING ELECTRICITY -- ELECTRIC CHARGE -- ELECTRIC CURRENT -- POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE -- ELECTRICAL POWER -- ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES IN THE HOME -- POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE AND RESISTANCE -- MOVING CHARGES PRODUCE MAGNETIC FIELDS -- MAKING AN ELECTRIC COMPASS -- MAGNETIC FIELDS -- WHAT MAKES AN ELECTRIC MOTOR SPIN? -- SOURCES OF ELECTRIC POWER -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 35. PLANTS-THE UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS -- HOW DOES A PLANT WORK ? -- PHOTOSYNTHESIS -- WATER -- THE RISE OF SAP -- HOW DO LEAVES LOSE WATER ? -- WATER MOVEMENT THROUGH THE STEM -- ABSORPTION BY ROOTS -- EFFECT OF WATER SHORTAGE -- ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS -- METABOLISM -- TRANSLOCATION OF CARBO HYDRATES -- REPRODUCTION -- PLANT GROWTH -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 36. ELECTRONS IN THE SERVICE OF MAN.

ALTERNATING CURRENT -- ELECTRONICS -- CONDUCTION OF ELECTRICITY THROUGH GASES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 37. PARTICLE THEORY -- ATOMIC STRUCTURE -- FORCES BETWEEN PARTICLES -- FIELD -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 38. CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING THINGS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 39. HISTORY OF THE EARTH -- DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ROCK STRATA -- DEDUCTIONS FROM FOSSILS -- GEOLOGICAL TIME -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 40. PLANTS, FUNGI, BACTERIA AND VIRUSES -- PLANTS -- SIMPLE WATER PLANTS-ALGAE -- SIMPLE LAND PLANTS -- FLOWERING PLANTS-ANGIOSPERMS -- THE EVOLUTIONARY ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ANGIOSPERMS -- FUNGI, BACTERIA AND VIRUSES -- FUNGI-MOULDS AND MUSHROOMS -- THE BACTERIA -- THE VIRUSES -- MICRO-ORGANISMS AND INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS AS CAUSES OF DISEASE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 41. ANIMALS WITHOUT BACKBONES -- THE PROTOZOANS -- THE COELENTERATES -- THE PLATYHELMINTHS -- THE NEMATODES -- THE ANNELIDS -- THE ARTHROPODS -- THE MOLLUSCS -- THE BRACHIOPODS -- THE ECHINODERMS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 42. ANIMALS WITH BACKBONES -- THE FISH -- THE AMPHIBIANS -- THE REPTILES -- THE BIRDS -- THE MAMMALS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 43. THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC SPECTRUM -- FURTHER PROPERTIES OF WAVES -- DETECTION OF RADIANT ENERGY -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 44. ELECTROLYSIS AND THE PRODUCTION OF METALS -- INDUSTRIAL USES FOR ELECTROLYSIS -- METALS AND THEIR PRODUCTION -- METALS IN THE EARTH'S CRUST -- ORE BODIES -- MINING OF ORE MINERALS -- CONCENTRATION OF ORE MINERALS -- EXTRACTION OF IRON FROM ORE MINERALS -- ALLOYS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 45. IMPORTANT CARBON COMPOUNDS AND THEIR SOURCES -- CARBON COMPOUNDS -- PETROLEUM -- COAL -- CARBOHYDRATES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 46. MATERIALS IN THE SERVICE OF MAN -- HISTORICAL -- NATURALLY OCCURRING BUILDING MATERIALS -- MANUFACTURED BUILDING MATERIALS -- SOME USEFUL MINERALS -- ROAD MAKING -- DAM BUILDING -- BRIDGE BUILDING -- BUILDING FOUNDATIONS.

SUMMARY -- Chapter 47. BEGINNINGS - SOLAR SYSTEM, SUN, UNIVERSE......LIFE? -- ORIGIN OF LIFE -- BIRTH AND DEATH OF A SUN -- ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 48. THE BLUE-PRINT OF LIFE -- PARENTS, OFFSPRING AND THE PROCESS OF REPRODUCTION -- HOW INHERITANCE WORKS -- GENES AND CHROMOSOMES -- GENES, ENZYMES AND ORGANISMS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 49. EVOLUTION -- DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION -- THE EVIDENCES OF EVOLUTION -- MODERN EXPLANATIONS OF EVOLUTION -- MAN'S UNIQUE INHERITANCE -- SUMMARY -- CLASSIFIED SUBJECT INDEX.

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