Is this scene familiar? Whenever the weather is fine and the breeze is not dry, parents with children must have had such outdoor moments. However, there are many scientific principles such as mechanics and chemistry hidden in this humble daily life, do you know? Isn't it incredible? Open 1 minute Understanding Science with me. After reading it, you will know that science is not profound, it permeates all aspects of our lives.
"Technology changes life". Without science, there would be no modern society. Planes, high-speed trains, spaceships, smart phones, electronic payments ... more and more scientific and technological products and new iterations have entered people's daily lives. However, while enjoying the convenience of science and technology, people know little about the scientific principles around them. Many people find science obscure and unable to understand what scientists say. 1 min. Learn about science, analyze scientific principles in simple terms from life, and make science grounded with pictures and texts. It is a scientific enlightenment reading that everyone needs.
The author of this book is Shuiguyun, who graduated from the School of Science, Tokyo University, Japan. After a period of scientific research, he devoted himself to the translation of popular science books on science and mathematics. The main purpose of this book is to help readers understand the general meaning of scientific terms more easily, and it is also very suitable for children and teenagers to do scientific enlightenment.
? Understanding Science in 1 min selects six major disciplines, namely physics, electromagnetism, chemistry, biology, geography and cosmology, and explains their general meanings and the reasons that are often misunderstood with pictures and texts. Through examples in daily life, readers can have a more specific impression of scientific principles and related basic knowledge from a simple beginning. In order to make readers better understand, many metaphors are used in the book, and the etymological stories of scientists are added to increase interest and enhance readers' intuitive feelings.
physics
Do you often exercise?
In daily life, we often think that people or animals move spontaneously, but they are different in the scientific field. As long as an object moves, it is considered as "movement". The judgment of an object's motion will be different because of different reference objects. This is the "relativity" of motion, which led to Einstein's "relativity".
Besides motion, force, energy, gravity, inertia, spectrum, quantum, heat energy, ray, nanometer ... Are you curious to hear this? In the research of physics, theory and practice are like the front and back wheels, which cooperate with each other, advance together, and have a virtuous circle to jointly promote the progress and development of physics.
electromagnetism
When it comes to electricity, it is probably the most used in our lives, and we feel the most real scientific application. Electric lights, telephones, televisions, refrigerators, mobile phones and so on can be seen everywhere in our lives. When it comes to charge, resistance, voltage, current and electromagnetic waves, we can know that they are related to electricity from the word "electricity", but when it comes to lasers, semiconductors, transistors, superconductivity, artificial intelligence and quantum computers, are these strange? It doesn't matter, it's not a problem to understand science in a simple way according to the easy-to-understand words in the book and various charts.
chemistry
Speaking of chemistry, do you remember all kinds of chemical reactions and the periodic table of elements? It is true that various molecular movements and morphological changes in chemistry are really interesting, but to your surprise, our diet, life and health are also closely related to chemistry. For example, many people pay attention to the "antioxidant" and "calorie intake" of healthy diet, and the "acid-base balance" of TCM health care ... These are very useful life prescriptions at first glance.
biology
In the past two years, the global topic has been unable to avoid an "COVID-19 epidemic", and COVID-19 has become the most widespread epidemic virus in the world. So the related words such as virus, vaccine, immunity and genetic variation are familiar to everyone. In fact, biology is also related to cell division, reproduction, evolution and cloning. The most common "test-tube baby" has now become a source of happiness for many infertile families.
geography
We may encounter earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, typhoons and other natural disasters. In order to protect ourselves in these natural disasters, it is very necessary to master certain geographical knowledge. Geography is the study of geology and atmospheric science.
cosmology
The original meaning of "universe" is "the sum of all things", which can be said to be all-encompassing. People often say that "our goal is the sea of stars", which has the vastness of heaven and earth.
Planets, satellites and comets in the solar system are just dust spots in the vast universe, and countless other stars only constitute the Milky Way visible to the naked eye, not to mention other galaxies that cannot be detected in light years. There is still a huge unknown in human exploration of the universe, and more people who love science are expected to reveal the future.
The words in 1 minute Understanding Science are easy to understand, and there are various illustrations drawn by excellent professional graphic designers and illustrators, illustrating 100 basic scientific terms, which will take you 1 minute to understand science. It's that simple.