Isaac Newton His Li fe and Ideas with 21 Activ i t ies

and Physics for Kids Kerrie LOG AN HOLL iH AN

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hollihan, Kerrie Logan.

Isaac Newton and physics for kids : his life and ideas with 21 activities / Kerrie Logan

Hollihan.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-55652-778-4

1. Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727—Juvenile literature. 2. Physicists—Great Britain—

Biography—Juvenile literature. 3. Physics—Experiments—Juvenile literature.

I. Title.

QC16.N7H586 2009

530.092—dc22

2008048635

Cover and interior design: Monica Baziuk

Interior illustrations: Laura D’Argo

Cover images: Isaac Newton: Corbis • apple, prism, Comet Hyakutake,

and Newton’s cradle: Shutterstock • Tower of London: Library of Congress

Isaac Newton commemorative stamps courtesy of Royal Mail.

© 2009 by Kerrie Logan Hollihan

All rights reserved

First edition

Published by Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

814 North Franklin Street

Chicago, Illinois 60610

ISBN 978-1-55652-724-1

Printed in the United States of America

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To Gloria Lane,

who convinced me that I’ve been a scientist all along.

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C o N T E N T SDz

Time Line vi

Preface: The BriLLianT and Biz arre isa ac new Ton ix

1. A Boy LIKE No oTHER 1

make a waste Book 5Build a waterwheel 8

make Your own ink, and write with it 10

2. STUDy AT CAMBRIDGE 17

Phases of the moon 21watch a Pendulum swing 26

3. NEwToN THE MISFIT 29

water clock or candle clock? 32create optical illusions 34

Locate Your Latitude 36

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4. ASKING QUESTIoNS 39

make a Plague mask 46

5. THE LIGHT SHINES

oN ISAAC NEwToN 49

make a Prism 53newton’s rings 60

shine Your Light on the inverse square Law 62

6. THE SECRET yEARS 65

Translate an alchemist’s Poem 69a crystal Garden 72

7. SCIENCE’S MoST

IMPoRTANT BooK 79

newton’s first Law 83newton’s second Law 84

newton’s Third Law 85

8. LooKING FoR CHANGE 93

Power to the Parabola 95what are the odds? 99

a straight shot at Playing around with forces 100

9. A MAN oF

LoNDoN TowN 103

Bake an apple Pye in a coffin 111create clues in a Portrait 112

10. THE LIoN’S RoAR FADES AwAy 115

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acknowLedGmenTs 123

resources 125

index 128

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T I M E L I N Ehannah ayscough marries isaac newton, a

yeoman farmer who dies six months later

on christmas day, hannah gives birth to a son named isaac

newton starts grammar school in Grantham

newton earns his bachelor’s degree but moves home to woolsthorpe when the plague strikes cambridge

newton returns to cambridge after the plague leaves

in July, newton receives his master’s degree

in august, newton visits London, where king charles ii grants him an exemption from becoming ordained

newton reveals his invention, a reflecting telescope

newton is named Lucasian Professor of mathematics at cambridge university

hannah newton marries rev. Barnabas smith and leaves isaac at woolsthorpe with his grandparents

newton matriculates at Trinity college, cambridge university

newton gives the first of his lectures on “opticks”

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