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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are small propellers mounted in the base of a ship's hull?
2. What is the factor which determines an object's ability to float?
3. Why does a thermos lose heat?
4. What is the main idea in Part 2 of the book?
5. What happens when you exert your strength across a longer distance?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the main focus of the first section of Part 2, Harnessing the Elements?
2. How can electric heat keep things cold?
3. Discuss how sails are used on a boat.
4. Discuss what happens when a driving force initiates movement.
5. What is an airfoil and how does it work?
6. Define the two elements that explosives must contain.
7. Discuss why the density of water varies.
8. How do the rotor blades on a helicopter work?
9. What rays does the sun emit? How do those rays react to an object?
10. What is a vacuum? What is one invention that uses this principle?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Part One, The Mechanics of Movement, states that to understand the way things work, one needs to understand the underlying principles. Discuss the following:
1) Discuss the principles/laws of physics that underpin all of the various tools and machines presented in The New Way Things Work.
2) Thoroughly discuss the wedge. How is it used? Upon what principles of physics is it based? What are some common wedges? What is the most complex wedge that is discussed?
3) How often do you think you use a wedge during the course of your everyday life? Do you think it is important to understand the underlying principles of a wedge? Why or why not? Do you think it is interesting to understand upon what basis something such as a zipper was created?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the following:
1) Which is easier: To pull something down or to pull it up? Why? What is the relevance of this question to the concept of pulleys?
2) Discuss the various types of pulleys, giving examples of each type.
3) Research the history of pulleys and write an informative essay on what you find. Consider the following questions: When were they invented? By whom? Where? How were the first pulleys made? How are they made today? What materials have they used to make pulleys in the past? In the present? Are pulleys still an important tool today?
Essay Topic 3
Nuclear Power is introduced as a concrete woolly mammoth anonymously left at the town gates. The story is a clear parallel to the Trojan Horse. Discuss the following:
1) Research and relate the story of the Trojan Horse.
2) What do you think is the connection between nuclear power and the Trojan horse?
3) Do you think the author is right in suggesting this connection? Why or why not?
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