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Physics Contents:

3. What is physics?
4. All about energy
6. Light energy
8. Seeing things
10 Reflection
11. Refraction
12. Color
14. Heat energy
16. How does heat travel?
18. Sounds and noises
20. Music
22. Mechanics
24. ----Liquids
26. ----Stopping and going
28. ----Speed, acceleration, and gravity
30. ----Machines, work, and power
32. Electricity and magnetism
34. ----Current electricity
36. ----Magnetism
38. ----Electric motors
39. ----How loudspeakers work
40. Electromagnetic spectrum
42. Physics words
44. Laws and equations
45. Tables
46. Measurements, places to visit, books to read
47. Some inventions
48. Answers

Chemistry Contents:

51. What is chemistry?
53. Looking at chemicals
54. What things are made of
56. Looking at particles
58. Physical changes
60. What is a chemical reaction?
62. Looking for patterns in chemistry
64. Why chemical reactions happen
66. Looking at compounds
70. Fast and slow reactions
72. Catalysts
74. How metals react
76. Acids, bases, and salts
78. What is organic chemistry?
80. Organic families
82. Useful organic compounds
84. Splitting compounds
86. Identifying substances
88. Formulae and equations
90. Doing experiments
92. Useful information
94. The reactivity series
95. Some use of elements
96. Answers

Biology Contents:

99. What is biology?
102. What living things have in common
104. What are living things made of?
106. Making food
108. Feeding
110. What happens to food
112. Getting energy
114. How substances move around the body
116. Plant transport systems
117. Waste disposal
118. Skeletons and movement
120. sensitivity
122. Co-ordination
124. Reproduction
128. Life cycles and growth
130. Genetics
132. The plant kingdom
134. The animal kingdom
136. Ecology and the environment
139. Competing for survival
140. Using a microscope
141. Answers to puzzles
142. Index

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