目录 1
初级部分 1
Lesson 1 Metal 1
Lesson 2 The Prediction of the World Population 2
Lesson 3 The World's First Compass 5
Lesson 4 The Cause of Earthquakes 7
Lesson 5 The Atom 10
Lesson 6 Light 13
Lesson 7 Surface Tension 16
Lesson 8 The Temperature of the Center of the Earth 18
Lesson 9 How Big Is a Molecule? 21
Lesson 10 The Solar System 23
Lesson 11 The Treatment of Waste Water 26
Lesson 12 The Brightest Star 28
Lesson 13 The Earliest Tools with Handles 31
Lesson 14 Energy 33
Lesson 15 A Common Element 35
Lesson 16 The Dcepest Ocean 37
Lesson 17 What Makes a Boat Float? 40
Lesson 18 Oxygen 42
Lesson 19 Elements 45
Lesson 20 Geology 47
Lesson 21 An Unusual Planet 50
Lesson 22 Why Do Sunsets Look Red? 52
Lesson 23 Heat 55
Lesson 24 Friction 57
Lesson 25 How Big Is an Atom? 59
Lesson 26 Mineral 62
Lesson 27 Sonic Boom 65
Lesson 28 Number and Mathematies 69
Lesson 29 What keeps the Sun Shinning? 72
Lesson 30 Why Does Iron Get Rusty? 75
中级部分 79
Lesson 31 What Makes a Car Go? 79
Lesson 32 The Ozone Problem 82
Lesson 33 Electron and Atom 85
Lesson 34 Sound Has Speed 87
Lesson 35 The Size of the Universe 90
Lesson 36 Space Exploration 93
Lesson 37 Gas 95
Lesson 38 Discovery by"Accident" 98
Lesson 39 How Sound Travels 101
Lesson 40 The Effects of the Chernobyl Accident 103
Lesson 41 Colour Television 105
Lesson 42 Static Electricity 108
Lesson 43 Radio Isotopes 110
Lesson 44 The Methods of Science 113
Lesson 45 Using Weather Information 116
Lesson 46 The Separation of Mixtures 119
Lesson 47 The Greenhouse Effect 121
Lesson 48 What Is Matter? 124
Lesson 49 Cosmic Rays 127
Lesson 50 Where Do Most Earthquakes Occur? 130
Lesson 51 Do the Seven Wonders of the World Still Exist? 133
Lesson 52 Chemistry 136
Lesson 53 Einstein's Theory of Relativity 139
Lesson 54 What is an Acid? 142
Lesson 55 The Utilization of Ocean Energy 145
Lesson 56 Conduction of Electricity 148
Lesson 57 The New World of Mathematics 151
Lesson 58 The Scientific Attitude 154
Lesson 59 Physics——Foundation of the Physical Sciences 157
Lesson 60 Pure and Applied Science 161
高级部分 165
Lesson 61 Scientific Method and the Methods of Science 165
Lesson 62 Air and Air Pressure 168
Lesson 63 Recent Development in Science Education 171
Lesson 64 Problems of the Computer Age 174
Lesson 65 The Method of Scientifie Investigation 178
Lesson 66 The Scope of Geology 181
Lesson 67 Molecular motion in Liquids and Solids 185
Lesson 68 Oxidation 187
Lesson 69 Remote Sensing：From Image to Number 191
Lesson 70 Alfred Nobel——A Man of Contrasts 195
Lesson 71 Radar 198
Lesson 72 He Led a Useful Life 201
Lesson 73 'Directed'Research 205
Lesson 74 Natural Science:A Body of Systematized Knowledge 209
Lesson 75 Chemistry as a Natural Science 212
Lesson 76 Sources of Error in Sicentific Investigation 215
Lesson 77 AMicroeleetronic Revolution 218
Lesson 78 Is Machine Intelligence Possible 221
Lesson 79 Mierominiaturization 223
Lesson 80 The Ultimate Machine:The Electronic Computer 227
Lesson 81 Electricity and Electronics 231
Lesson 82 Surveying Natural Resources 234
Lesson 83 Optical Communications 236
Lesson 84 The Metric System Measures up 240
Lesson 85 Communication 244
Lesson 86 Radio Waves 248
Lesson 87 The Laser 251
Lesson 88 What Is Artificial Intelligence? 254
Lesson 89 Underdevelopment and the Sciences 258
Lesson 90 Airplances:Yesterday,Today,and Tomorrow 260
Lesson 91 Water Supplies A Growing Problem 264
Lesson 92 Operational Research and Social Change 268
Lesson 93 Digital Computers and Their Uses 272
Lesson 94 Science and the Future 278
Lesscn 95 Science and International Co—operation 282
Lesson 96 Science——A Way of Thinking 284
Lesson 97 Straight and Crooked Thinking 288
Lesson 98 The Role of Chance in Scientific Discovery 293
Lesson 99 Probability 295
Lesson 100 Quasars and the New Universe 301
后记 306