Physics: concepts and connections

✍ Scribed by Hobson, Art

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2013;2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 537
• Edition: Pearson new international edition, Fifth edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written for the non-science major, this text emphasizes modern physics and the scientific process-and engages students by drawing connections between physics and everyday experience. Hobson takes a conceptual approach, with an appropriate focus on quantitative skills. The Fifth Edition increases coverage of key environmental topics such as global warming and energy, and adds new topics such as momentum. Hobson's text remains the least expensive textbook available for students taking nonmajors physics.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
Glossary......Page 8
1. The Way of Science: Experience and Reason......Page 23
Problem Set (5/e): The Way of Science: Experience and Reason......Page 52
2. Atoms: The Nature of Things......Page 56
Problem Set (5/e): Atoms: The Nature of Things......Page 74
3. How Things Move: Galileo Asks the Right Questions......Page 79
Problem Set (5/e): How Things Move: Galileo Asks the Right Questions......Page 94
4. Why Things Move as They Do......Page 100
Problem Set (5/e): Why Things Move as They Do......Page 120
5. Newton’s Universe......Page 127
Problem Set (5/e): Newton’s Universe......Page 148
6. Conservation of Energy: You Can’t Get Ahead......Page 153
Problem Set (5/e): Conservation of Energy: You Can’t Get Ahead......Page 168
7. Second Law of Thermodynamics......Page 175
Problem Set (5/e): Second Law of Thermodynamics......Page 200
8. Electromagnetism......Page 206
Problem Set (5/e): Electromagnetism......Page 228
9. Waves, Light, and Climate Change......Page 234
Problem Set (5/e): Waves, Light, and Climate Change......Page 268
10. The Special Theory of Relativity......Page 277
Problem Set (5/e): The Special Theory of Relativity......Page 300
11. Einstein’s Universe and the New Cosmology......Page 306
Problem Set (5/e): Einstein’s Universe and the New Cosmology......Page 328
12. The Quantum Idea......Page 332
Problem Set (5/e): The Quantum Idea......Page 350
13. The Quantum Universe......Page 355
Problem Set (5/e): The Quantum Universe......Page 382
14. The Nucleus and Radioactivity: A New Force......Page 391
Problem Set (5/e): The Nucleus and Radioactivity: A New Force......Page 412
15. The Energy Challenge......Page 418
Problem Set (5/e): The Energy Challenge......Page 448
16. Fusion and Fission—and a New Energy......Page 457
Problem Set (5/e): Fusion and Fission—and a New Energy......Page 480
17. Quantum Fields: Relativity Meets the Quantum......Page 484
Problem Set (5/e): Quantum Fields: Relativity Meets the Quantum......Page 512
18. Summing Up......Page 519
Periodic Table of the Elements......Page 522
Flow Chart of Topics......Page 524
B......Page 526
D......Page 527
E......Page 528
F......Page 529
H......Page 530
M......Page 531
N......Page 532
P......Page 533
R......Page 534
S......Page 535
U......Page 536
Z......Page 537

✦ Subjects

Science;Physics;Nonfiction