Physics A World View
by Kirkpatrick, Larry; Francis, Gregory S.Edition: 6th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-01-24
Publisher(s): Brooks Cole
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Summary
Not a physics major? No problem! PHYSICS: A WORLD VIEW is written for you. Inside, you'll read a story-based approach to understanding physics that makes sense with the way you think. Along the way, you'll learn all the basic physics you need to know as well.
Table of Contents
| A World View | |
| Describing Motion | |
| Explaining Motion | |
| Motions in Space | |
| Gravity | |
| Interlude: The Discovery Of Invariants | |
| Momentum | |
| Energy | |
| Rotation | |
| Interlude: Universality Of Motion | |
| Classical Relativity | |
| Einstein's Relativity | |
| Interlude: The Search For Atoms | |
| Structure of Matter | |
| States of Matter | |
| Thermal Energy | |
| Available Energy | |
| Interlude: Waves -- Something Else That Moves | |
| Vibrations and Waves | |
| Sound and Music | |
| Interlude: The Mystery Of Light | |
| Light | |
| Refraction of Light | |
| A Model of Light | |
| Interlude: An Electrical And Magnetic World | |
| Electricity | |
| Electric Current | |
| Electromagnetism | |
| Interlude: The Story Of The Quantum | |
| The Early Atom | |
| The Modern Atom | |
| Interlude: The Subatomic World | |
| The Nucleus | |
| Nuclear Energy | |
| Elementary Particles | |
| Frontiers | |
| Appendix: Nobel Laureates in Physics | |
| Answers to Odd-Numbered Questions and Exercises | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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