CONTENTS 1
目录 1
1．Adult Education 1
2．An Open-Classroom System 5
3．Wind Power 9
4．The World of Robots 12
5．Computers 15
6．Can It Really Happen? 18
7．How New York Became America s Largest City 22
8．The Uses of Science 26
9．Elements and Atoms 30
10．Conservation of Energy 34
1 1．What Makes Objects Float? 37
12．Why Study Math? 41
13．Radio Telescope 46
14．The Energy Crisis 50
15．Petroleum(Ⅰ) 53
16．Petroleum(Ⅱ) 57
17．Clocks through Time 61
18．The Youngest Painter in the World 66
19．The Twenty-First Century 70
20．The First Supersonic Flight 73
21．Markets 77
22．Has the United States Lost Its Ability to Compete? 80
23．Culture and Market 84
24．He Led a Useful Life 87
25．Learning by Doing 92
26．Interview 95
27．Why Is the Native Language Learnt So Well? 99
28．Facts about Gases,Liquids and Solids 103
29．The King of Comedy 106
30．Carbon 111
31．The Architect 114
32．Heat Loss from the Human Body 117
33．The Petrochemical Industry 121
34．The First Postage Stamp 125
35．American s Life in the New Age of Science and Technology 129
36．Does Travel Broaden the Mind? 133
37．The Planemakers 138
38．Measurement 141
39．The Scientific Exploration of Space 144
40．The Salt of the Earth 147
41．Oil as A Fuel 151
42．Preface(From The Petroleum Dictionary) 155
43．Petroleum Recovery 158
44．Introduction to Reservoir Engineering(Ⅰ) 162
45．Introduction to Reservoir Engineering(Ⅱ) 166
46．The 40,000-Mile Phone Call 170
47．Latent Heat 174
48．Jules Verne 178
49．Crude Oil Prices 182
50．Oil Drilling 185
51．Water 189
52．Molecules 193
53．Mass 197
54．Energy and Public Safety 201
55．A World without Oil 205
56．Refining Petroleum 209
57．The Oil Companies 213
58．The Engineering Profession 217
59．Language Learning 221
60．Can Stress Make You Sick? 224
61．Smoking and Cancer 227
62．How Americans Eat and Drink 231
63．Scientists Laboring to Make Computers Learn to Think 235
64．Supertelevision 239
65．An Ultrasonic Torch 243
66．The Telephone and Its Inventor 247
67．The Crisis of Government Policy in Energy 252
68．How the Canadian Experience Can Contribute to China s GrowingPetroleum Industry 256
69．Economic Justification 259
70．Petroleum Engineering Education in the Year 2000 263
71．Energy:Global Prospects 1985—2000 268
72．Culture Shock and the Petroleum of Adjustment in New CulturalEnvironments 272
73．What Science Is? 278
74．Scientific Knowledge 282
75．Sources of Error in Scientific Investigation 285
76．Minerals,Metals and Mining 289
77．Improving Industrial Efficiency through Robotics 293
78．World Food and Natural Resources Outlook in 2000 296
79．The Changing Concept of Marketing 300
80．Earth Resources Technology Satellites 303
81．Small Business 306
82．What s Your Best Time of Day? 310
83．Foreign Exchange Trading 315
84．Computers in Education(Ⅰ) 319
85．Computers in Education(Ⅱ) 323
86．How Does A Computer“Follow Instructions”？ 327
87．The Second Information Revolution 331
88．The Environmental Pollution 335
89．Making Steels of Very High Strengths 338
90．Foreword 342
91．The Metric System 347
92．The Corporation 352
93．The Age of Superstuff 355
94．How Laws Are Passed 359
95．How and When to Give Your Car a Break 362
96．Advertisements 368
97．Control Earthquakes 373
98．Congestion 377
99．International Cooperation of Science 380
100．Preface 384
附录 390