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The racecar book : build and race mousetrap cars, dragsters, tri-can haulers & more / Bobby Mercer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mercer, Bobby, 1961-
- Series:
- Science in Motion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Model car racing--Juvenile literature.
- Model car racing.
- Automobiles, Racing--Models--Juvenile literature.
- Automobiles, Racing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A project book for young readers with a need for speed, this work provides instruction on 25 easy-to-construct racecars that can be driven both indoors and out. They will learn how to use mousetraps, rubber bands, chemical reactions, gravity, and air pressure to power the cars that are made for little or no cost using recycled and repurposed materials. Readers will discover how to turn a potato chip can, a rubber band, and weights into a Chip-Can Dancer; retrofit a car with a toy plane propeller to make an air-powered Prop Car; and use an efferv
- Contents:
- The starting line
- Mousetrap cars
- Rubber band racers
- Rocket racers
- Edible racers
- Gravity racers
- Racecar launchers.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61374-715-2
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