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Physics : the first science / Peter Lindenfeld and Suzanne White Brahmia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindenfeld, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--Textbooks.
- Physics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Today's physics textbooks have become encyclopedic, offering students dry discussions, rote formulas, and exercises with little relation to the real world. Physics: The First Science takes a different approach by offering uniquely accessible, student-friendly explanations, historical and philosophical perspectives and mathematics in easy-to-comprehend dialogue. It emphasizes the unity of physics and its place as the basis for all science. Examples and worked solutions are scattered throughout the narrative to help increase understanding. Students are tested and challenged at the end of ea
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; Preface; Additional Notes, Primarily for the Instructor; Acknowledgments; Frontispiece; Chapter 1. Atoms to Stars: Scales of Size, Energy, and Force; Chapter 2. Some Tools of the Trade:Numbers, Quantities, and Units; Chapter 3. There Is No Rest: Describing Motion; Chapter 4. Forces and Motion: Newton'sFramework; Chapter 5. Laws and Their Limits:The Organization of ScientificKnowledge; Chapter 6. Energy and Its Conservation; Chapter 7. Materials and Models; Chapter 8. Electricity: It Is Everywhere
- Chapter 9. More on Electricity: From Force toEnergy, from Field to PotentialChapter 10. Magnetism: Electricity's TravelingCompanion; Chapter 11. Waves: Mechanicaland Electromagnetic; Chapter 12. Quantum Physics; Chapter 13. The Nucleus: Heart of the Atom; Chapter 14. Energy in Civilization; Chapter 15. Atomic Physics Pays Off: Solar Cells,Transistors, and the Silicon Age; Chapter 16. There Is No End; Bibliography; Some Constants, Astronomical Quantities, and Masses; Index; About the Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8135-5089-0
- OCLC:
- 775301973
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