About the Author
Bobby Mercer has been sharing the fun of science for more than two decades as a high school physics teacher. He is the author of Junk Drawer Physics, Junk Drawer Chemistry, and Junk Drawer Geometry.
Series
Works by Bobby Mercer
Junk Drawer Physics: 50 Awesome Experiments That Don't Cost a Thing (Junk Drawer Science) (2014) 82 copies
How Do You Light a Fart?: And 150 Other Essential Things Every Guy Should Know about Science (2009) 29 copies
The Flying Machine Book: Build and Launch 35 Rockets, Gliders, Helicopters, Boomerangs, and More (2012) 23 copies, 1 review
The Robot Book: Build & Control 20 Electric Gizmos, Moving Machines, and Hacked Toys (2014) 22 copies
Junk Drawer Chemistry: 50 Awesome Experiments That Don't Cost a Thing (2) (Junk Drawer Science) (2015) 21 copies, 1 review
ManVentions: From Cruise Control to Cordless Drills - Inventions Men Can't Live Without (2011) 19 copies
The Leaping, Sliding, Sprinting, Riding Science Book: 50 Super Sports Science Activities (2007) 19 copies
The Flying Machine Book 1 copy
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- Occupations
- teacher (high school physics)
- Places of residence
- North Carolina, USA
- Map Location
- USA
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Reviews
The Flying Machine Book: Build and Launch 35 Rockets, Gliders, Helicopters, Boomerangs, and More (Science in Motion) by Bobby Mercer
Somehow unexciting.
Additional Remarks, 2023:
I checked this book out again and realized that what you need to do is to scan this book rapidly for the kernel of an idea, e.g., a material or technique that will work for your own idea. For that, it is not so bad. It's just that the illustrations are muddy black and white photographs and that everything is a recipe. If the author had gotten an illustrator and more help with the writing this could have been an excellent book.
Additional Remarks, 2023:
I checked this book out again and realized that what you need to do is to scan this book rapidly for the kernel of an idea, e.g., a material or technique that will work for your own idea. For that, it is not so bad. It's just that the illustrations are muddy black and white photographs and that everything is a recipe. If the author had gotten an illustrator and more help with the writing this could have been an excellent book.
Junk Drawer Chemistry: 50 Awesome Experiments That Don't Cost a Thing (Junk Drawer Science) by Bobby Mercer
Non-messy activity ideas: Black Box p. 52 (modeling an atom that is too small to see), Junk Drawer Periodic Table p. 63, Clean Pennies p. 129.
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Statistics
- Works
- 17
- Members
- 294
- Popularity
- #79,673
- Rating
- 3.0
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 64