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WINNER 2009 CHOICE AWARD OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE! The typical introduction to physics leaves readers with the impression that physics is about 30 different, unconnected topics such as motion, forces, gravity, electricity, light, heat, energy, and atoms. More often than not, these readers are left...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sadoff, Ahren
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2008.
Temas:
Physics > Popular works.
Cosmology > Popular works.
Physique > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Cosmologie > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Cosmology.
Physics.
Popular works.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
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  • <P class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">UNITS AND POWERS OF TEN <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">PHYSICS AND ITS METHODOLOGY <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">What Is Physics? <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16,
  • 16);">Methodology <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">The First Scientist <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Why Do You Believe? <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Back to the Questions <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16,
  • 16);">How Do We Answer theQuestions? <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">The Need to BeQuantitative <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Theories <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Models <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16,
  • 16);">AestheticJudgments <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">MOTION <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Relating the Variables of Motion <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Graphs of One <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">- <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16,
  • 16);">Dimensional Motion <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Constant Speed <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Constant Acceleration <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Two <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">- <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16,
  • 16);">Dimensional Motion <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">FORCES <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">The Fundamental Forces <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">A Specific Force Law: Newtonian Gravity <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Weight <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16,
  • 16);">How Does Force Affect Motion? Newton & rsquo;s SecondLaw <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Newton, the Apple, and the Moon <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Combining Two Laws <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">The Mass of the Earth <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16,
  • 16);">Newton & rsquo;s First Law <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">What and Where Is theForce? <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Newton & rsquo;s Third Law <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">How Does a Horse Pull aWagon? <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16,
  • 16);">How Can We Walk? <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">ELECTROMAGNETISM <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">The Electric Force Law <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Unifying Electricity and Magnetism <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Ampere & rsquo;s Law <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif & quo.

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