Gut-wrenching Gravity and Other Fatal Forces

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Disgusting and Dreadful Science features a look at the weird, revolting and shocking aspects of science for children at KS2. From electricity to sound and from light to forces, the books offer Wow! fascinating facts, fun examples and true-life stories to provide ways in to understanding solid scientific principles.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Feel the force!
• The mystery of gravity
• Splat!
• Deadly gravity
• Gut-wrenching g-forces
• Falling forever
• Stretched into spaghetti
• Gravity geeks
• Frightening friction
• Magnet mayhem
• Floating, flying and gravity-defying
• Crawling on the ceiling
• All aboard the vomit comet!
• Glossary
• Websites
• Index

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Booklist Review

Part of the Disgusting & Dreadful Science series, this title supplies some of the basics about the fearsome force known as gravity. Those titillated by the title will be further drawn by the snazzily designed pages, short patches of creatively arranged text, colorful illustrations, and plenty of white space. The awesome facts a mouse can survive a 328-foot fall, black holes have superstrong gravity that causes spaghettification, and much more should keep readers glued to the pages. The information is a bit random, and the abrupt ending with no sense of wrap-up confirms this, but this presentation will get the brain ticking and lead to more in-depth research. Blue boxes point out yucky facts and feature easily doable experiments to further investigate some of the aspects of gravity.--Enos, Randall Copyright 2010 Booklist