ACE Your Science Project About the Senses

by Gardner, Robert; Rybolt, Thomas R.; Rybolt, Leah M.; Conklin, Barbara Gardner

• ISBN13: 9780766032170
• ISBN10: 0766032175
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-01
• Publisher: Enslow Pub Inc

Summary

How do your eardrums work? Can odor molecules pass through a solid the same way they pass through air? How does your sense of smell affect how something tastes? Learn the answers to these questions and more with the fun life science experiments in this book. Young scientists will explore the five human senses. Learn about the scientific method using the many experiments in this book. There are also ideas for science fair projects.

Author Biography

Robert Gardner is a retired high school teacher of physics, chemistry, and physical science. Thomas R. Rybolt has taught chemistry at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for more than twenty-five years. Both authors enjoyed writing these experiments with their daughters: authors Leah M. Rybolt and Barbara Gardner Conklin.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 5
The Scientific Method	p. 6
Science Fairs	p. 8
Safety First	p. 9
Vision	p. 11
Forming Images	p. 15
Measuring the Distance Between Your Blind Spot and Your Fovea	p. 20
Two Eyes Are Better Than One	p. 24
Rods and Cones	p. 28
Afterimages and Color	p. 33
Vertical-Horizontal and Müet;ller-Lyer Illusions	p. 40
The Sense of Hearing	p. 43
Your Pinnae and an Old-Fashioned Hearing Aid	p. 47
Air Versus Bone as a Conductor of Sound Waves	p. 48
A Look at an Eardrum and a Model Eardum	p. 51
Sound, Hair Cells, and Resonance	p. 56
The Doppler Effect	p. 59
The Sense of Smell	p. 62
Identifying Drinks by Odor	p. 66
Distinguishing Mixtures	p. 68
Odor Threshold	p. 72
The Speed of Odor	p. 75
Molecules Through Matter-Scents and Solids	p. 79
The Sense of Taste	p. 82
A Tasty Smell	p. 84
Taste Threshold	p. 88
Jellybean Taste Test	p. 91
Is It Taste, Texture, or Smell?	p. 94
The Sense of Touch	p. 96
One Touch or Two?	p. 98
Locating Touch	p. 100
Touch: A Different Approach	p. 102
Perception of Temperature	p. 105
Weber's Deception: Cold-Plus-Pressure Receptor Sensitivity	p. 107
Coins to Touch	p. 108
Further Reading and Internet Addresses	p. 109
Index	p. 110
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