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Physics : The First Science
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 offers uniquely accessible, student-friendly explanations, historical and philosophical perspectives and mathema...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Additional Notes, Primarilyfor the Instructor; Acknowledgments; 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's Framework; CHAPTER 5
- Laws and Their Limits: The Organization of Scientific Knowledge; CHAPTER 6
- Energy and Its Conservation; CHAPTER 7
- Materials and Models; CHAPTER 8
- Electricity: It Is Everywhere; CHAPTER 9
- More on Electricity: From Force to Energy, from Field to Potential.
- CHAPTER 10
- Magnetism: Electricity's Traveling CompanionCHAPTER 11
- Waves: Mechanical and 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 Author.