It is becoming increasingly difficult for students to find quick, direct answers to basic science questions. With time tight for researching and writing, they will welcome The Facts On File Science Handbooks in the areas of biology, chemistry, Earth science, and physics. Featuring easy-to-read and -understand chronologies; biographies; glossary entries; and charts, measurements, and formulas, both students and teachers will consider these books primary one-stop resources for quick answers to frequently asked science questions!

Each handbook features:
-- A glossary of 1,000 key terms in the discipline
-- Biographies of over 250 prominent people in each discipline from ancient times to the present day; each entry focuses on the accomplishments for which the scientist is noted
-- A chronology that tracks the dates of significant developments and discoveries from ancient Greece to the present day
-- Tables, charts, and diagrams
-- Measurements, formulas, and calculations.

Among the topics covered are:
-- Acceleration
-- Ballistics
-- Boiling Point
-- Catalysts
-- Data Communications
-- Electrolyte
-- Frequency Modulation
-- Gamma Radiation
-- Inertia
-- Prism
-- Relative Atomic Mass
-- Transverse Waves
-- White Dwarves
-- X-rays.

Biographies include:
-- Alexander Graham Bell
-- Arthur Holly Compton
-- Pierre Curie
-- Sir James Dewar
-- Christian Doppler
-- Albert Einstein
-- Euclid
-- Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
-- Hans William Geiger
-- Stephen Hawking
-- Pythagoras.

Tables, charts, anddiagrams include:
-- Electrical and Electronic Circuit Symbols
-- Electromagnetic Spectrum
-- Intensity and Loudness
-- Lenses
-- Radioactivity
-- SI Units
-- Table of Physical Quantities
-- Types of Energy.