Physics: A Crash Course

✍ Scribed by Brian Clegg

• Publisher: Ivy Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 163
• Series: Crash Course
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Physics is the most fundamental of the sciences - it tells us how the universe works. It's behind most of our exciting technology, from space rockets and satellites to cell phones, from electric cars to MRI scanners. Divided into 52 sections and grouped into four chapters Physics: A Crash Course is the quickest way to get up to speed with the fundamentals. Matter and Light outlines the forms different matter can take and the qualities of light. Energy and Heat explores different types of energy, and the specific form of kinetic energy that is heat. Quantum Physics brings in the central structures and implications, and developments in quantum theory. Motion and Relativity outlines the concepts of mechanics and the other greater transformer of physics, relativity. Taking you from inside an atom to the edge of the universe. What else could it be but a crash course in physics?

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
INTRODUCTION
1 MATTER & LIGHT
2 ENERGY & HEAT
3 QUANTUM THEORY
4 MOTION & RELATIVITY
GLOSSARY
FURTHER READING
INDEX
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS