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001 2005036333
003 DLC
005 20100720113330.0
008 051219s2007 njua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005036333
020 $a0131879464
020 $a9780131879461
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm62738523
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042 $apcc
050 00 $aQC23.2$b.H64 2007
082 00 $a530$222
100 1 $aHobson, Art,$d1934-
245 10 $aPhysics :$bconcepts & connections /$cArt Hobson.
250 $a4th ed.
260 $aUpper Saddle River, N.J. :$bPearson Prentice Hall,$cc2007.
300 $axvii, 470, 13, 14, 3, 8 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrelude of stars and atoms -- The way of science: experience and reason -- Atoms: the nature of things -- The Newtonian universe: a clockwork kingdom -- How things move: Galileo asks the right questions -- Why things move as they do -- Newton's universe -- Transition to the new physics -- Conservation of energy: you can't get ahead- -- Second law of thermodynamics: -- and you can't even break even -- Light and electromagnetism -- Electromagnetic radiation and global climate change -- The post-Newtonian universe: the observer intrudes -- The special theory of relativity -- The general theory of relativity and the new cosmology -- The search for extraterrestrial intelligence -- The quantum idea -- The quantum universe -- Within the atom: fire of the nucleus, fire of the sun -- The nucleus and radioactivity: a new force - -- Fusion and fission: a new energy -- The energy challenge -- Quantum fields: relativity meets the quantum.
650 0 $aPhysics$vTextbooks.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aHobson, Art, 1934-$tPhysics.$b4th ed.$dUpper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007$w(OCoLC)623237235
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005036333.html