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The whole world around us, nature and technology, is filled with all sorts of physical events, which are governed by physical laws. It is necessary to learn to recognise physical events, understand how and why they occur, what conditions affect them, and what consequences they lead to.
Learn to observe. In the city, by the sea shore, in the forest or field—everywhere you may have many interesting and varied questions. Notice everything, remember it, write it down. Seek answers to the questions that arise, they will be useful to you in your studies and later life. Do not be embarrassed if at first it is difficult for you to distinguish and understand this or that event that occurs in the surrounding world in different circumstances. Look for physical events carefully, over time you will learn to see them everywhere, always, in everything.

This book will help you spot and understand a whole series of events that take place right in front of everyone all the time, and so they often do not catch our attention. It will help you learn to compare physical events, find common features and individual traits in them, and match real life with the material you study in your textbook.

The goal of the book is to show the variety of physical events in nature and technology. It will show how important it is to recognise them, observe and study them, so as to understand the laws of nature and consciously apply them in your future activities. Physics is a great science. By discovering and helping to master the forces of nature, it shows how they can be directed for the good of mankind. The book will suggest what to do in a free minute, what to look at, what to remember, and which of the events you meet in everyday life should be checked by experiment. To be able to use the riches of nature, you must treat nature very carefully and constantly protect it.

Annotation: This book for extracurricular reading includes picture-problems for the 6th–7th grade physics course, reflecting physical phenomena and their application in technology and everyday life. Such picture-problems develop students’ powers of observation and teach them to independently analyse and explain the phenomena around them by applying the knowledge gained in their lessons. Answers are provided at the end of the manual.

Illustrations by: N. N. Rozhnov
Art Editor: V. M. Prokofiev

Translated from the Russian and typeset in Scribus by Damitr Mazanav

Notes: This is a very different yet effective approach to teach physics. I might create a similar book in the future. But anyways, this is the first book I typeset using Scribus, a Free Software for typesetting. Since the book did not have much mathematics, but a lot of images, using Scribus was more easy. The images are not of high quality, but definitely serve their purpose for the book. If later, we get high quality images we will update the book.

This book is an Open Educational Resources (OER)

Released with Creative Commons BY Share Alike 4.0 License

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