The Inquisitive Pioneer: The book of At-Home Basic-Materials Science Activities solving with a Slide Rule

This is a book for thinkers, students, teachers, and parents who love science and math in the form of activities only using common and basic items. For example you can measure the energy of the sun with a cup of water, a thermometer, and a watch. Each activity gives the purpose, the materials list, the procedure, the data tables, the formulae, and the conclusion to follow. One has to obtain the needed materials, if a student/child have permission and supervision, and a spirit of scientific curiosity to set forth on the adventure of science. All activities involve measurements and calculations to reach conclusions - which is the heart of the scientific method in practice. The range of activities spans most of physics, but looks at chemistry, astronomy, and several types of math too. The slide rule is encouraged ( and a paper template one is supplied ) to do the math with plenty of directions on its use and why it should be used to teach numeracy skills today. To take this quest one has to be the scientist, the researcher, the experimenter, the mathematician - in sum be the inquisitive pioneer.
Table of Contents
Ch.I Why bring the Slide Rule back to the Classroom today?
Ch.II Basic Data Analysis with a Slide Rule
Ch.III ... history of the Slide Rule
Ch.IV How to Use a Slide Rule
Ch.V Gauge Marks and Scales ...
Activity 1 : Using Math (and the Slide Rule) in Everyday Life
Activity 2 : ... - Proportions
Activity 3 : Calculating Cost of Water Usage at Home
Activity 4 : Calculating Cost of Electricity Usage at Home
Activity 5 : Some Indirect Measures determined
Activity 6 : Finding Pi using everyday objects and by graphing
Activity 7 : Similar Triangles ... determined
Activity 8 : Right Triangles Calculations
Activity 9 : Law of Sines Use with Solving Story Problems
Activity 10 : Estimate the Number of Leaves on a Tree
Activity 11 : Density of various Items Determination
Activity 12 : Computing the Number of Moles in a Substance
Activity 13 : Determining Weighted Average to explore Isotopes
Activity 14 : Measures and Calculations approximating Atmospheric Pressure
Activity 15 : Personal Pressure Determination
Activity 16 : Finding the Weight of a Car from Tire Pressure
Activity 17 : A Marble's Small Size Determination to relate to Atoms Size
Activity 18 : Charles' Law exploration with a Balloon and Thermometer
Activity 19 : Acceleration on an Incline calculation
• Position-Time Data Analysis Considerations
Activity 20 : Acceleration due to Gravity determination
Activity 21 : Graphical Analysis of a Bouncing Ball Activity 22 : Newton's 2nd Law relation examination
Activity #23 : Coefficient of Sliding & Static Friction
Activity 24 : Mechanical Energy calculation exploration
Activity 25 : Elastic Potential Energy determination
Activity 26 : Finding Energy and Power from climbing stairs
Activity 27 : Various Rate of Heating Determinations
Activity 28 : Finding the Rate of Cooling
Activity 29 : Comparing the Rate of Cooling
Activity 30 : Predicting Final Temperatures of hot & cold water mixtures
Activity 31 : Determining the Specific Heat Capacity of Water
Activity 32 : Determining the Specific Heat Capacity of a Metal
Activity 33 : Finding the Number of Calories of a Food Item
Activity 34 : Estimating the Quantity of Electrostatic Charge
Activity 35 : Electromagnet Graphing Explorations
Activity 36 : Rate of Spin of a simple Electric Motor measure
Activity 37 : Simple Magnetic Field Strength determination
Activity 38 : Exploring Waves with a Spring
Activity 39 : Several Pendulum Characteristics Explorations
Activity 40 : Determining the Wavelength of a Laser Light
Activity 41 : Graphically investigating the Inverse-Square Law of Light
Activity 42 : Estimating the Size of the Moon
Activity 43 : Solar Cell Study Explorations
Activity 44 : Graphically determining Kepler's 3rd Law
Activity 45 : Calculating the Solar Constant
Project : Personal Slide Rule Template