Modern Introductory Physics

✍ Scribed by C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer New York
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 524
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
What’s Going On Here?....Pages 1-10
Some Physics You Need to Know....Pages 11-49
The Chemist’s Atoms....Pages 51-67
Gas Laws....Pages 69-91
Hard-Sphere Atoms....Pages 93-127
Electric Forces and Fields....Pages 129-162
Magnetic Field and Magnetic Force....Pages 163-185
Electrical Atoms and the Electron....Pages 187-235
Waves and Light....Pages 237-276
Time and Length at High Speeds....Pages 277-309
Energy and Momentum at High Speeds....Pages 311-334
The Granularity of Light....Pages 335-352
X-Rays....Pages 353-383
Particles as Waves....Pages 385-405
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle....Pages 407-423
Radioactivity and the Atomic Nucleus....Pages 425-461
Spectra and the Bohr Atom....Pages 463-492
Epilogue....Pages 493-496
Back Matter....Pages 497-519

✦ Subjects

Physics, general