The Horn Book Guide

SCIENCE

Gardner, Robert

Bicycle Science Projects: Physics on Wheels

112 pp. | Enslow | November, 2004 | Library ISBN 0-7660-1630-7 $26.60

(4) YA Science Fair Success series. Full of useful, well-organized information, Gardner's book contains twenty-two experiments to do with a bicycle, with suggestions for science-fair worthy extensions. Although the steps are unnumbered, helpful illustrations and tables clarify the text, and the introduction gives historical context. In this hands-on book, the five major sections move from a simple experiment with balance to one involving frictional forces. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian