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Physics: concepts and connections
2006, Pearson Education
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Physics: concepts and connections
2003, Prentice Hall/Pearson Education
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Book Details
Table of Contents
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.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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