Electricite et Magnetisme

by Steve Parker

L'ÉLECTRICITÉ ET LE MAGNÉTISME
présente aux jeunes dotés d'un esprit curieux des principes scientifiques simples, au moyen d'expériences passionnantes et amusantes à réaliser. Chaque projet met en évidence une notion différente, systématiquement confortée par des exemples concrets, ainsi qu'une explication scientifique. Qui plus est, des idées sont avancées pour la poursuite des investigations afin d'encourager les jeunes à continuer leur découverte scientifique.

Découvre...

- Comment les aimants peuvent être utilisés pour créer un train à sustentation magnétique

- Comment trouver le Nord avec sa propre boussole

- Comment fabriquer un aimant avec de l'électricité

Paperback

Published January 1, 2004

About the author

Steve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.

Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.

Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.