Presents a children's book for early readers that describes the sun, where it is in the solar system, its importance to the earth, sun spots and solar flares, and more.
Explains how the animal and human inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, including a mountain lion, a roadrunner, a coyote, a tortoise, and members of the Papago Indian tribe, adapt to and survive the desert's merciless heat.
This comprehensive volume examines heat and the related concepts of temperature, thermal energy, and thermodynamics and introduces readers to some of the great minds that furthered our understanding of this fundamental area of physics.
An introduction to thermodynamics that provides information on early beliefs about heat and temperature, advances in thermometry, the laws of thermodynamics, and other related topics.
Looks at the weather phenomena known as a heat wave, explaining what heat waves are, where and why they occur, and what conditions are like during a heat wave, and discusses how people prepare for and cope with abnormally hot conditions.
