Physics : concepts and connections

✍ Scribed by Hobson, Art

• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 537
• Edition: Pearson new international edition, Fifth edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Part 1: Prelude: Of Stars and AtomsCh 1: The Way of Science: Experience and ReasonCh 2: Atoms: The Nature of ThingsPart 2: The Newtonian Universe: A Clockwork KingdomCh 3: How Things Move: Galileo Asks the Right QuestionsCh 4: Why Things Move as They DoCh 5: Newton's UniversePart 3: Transition to the New Physics Ch 6: Conservation of Energy: You Can't Get AheadCh 7: Second Law of Thermodynamics: and you Can't Even Break EvenCh 8: Light and ElectromagnetismCh 9: Electromagnetism Radiation and Global Climate ChangePart 4: The Post-Newtonian Universe: The Observer IntrudesCh 10: The Special Theory of RelativityCh 11: The General Theory of Relativity and the New CosmologyCh 12: The Quantum IdeaCh 13: The Quantum UniversePart 5: Within the Atom: Fire of the Nucleus, Fire of the SunCh 14: The Nucleus and Radioactivity: An New ForceCh 15: Fusion and Fission: and a New EnergyCh 16: The Energy ChallengeCh 17: Quantum Fields: Relativity Meets the Quantum

✦ Subjects

Physics