Physics A World View

Name: Physics A World View
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ISBN: 9780495125648

ISBN-10: 0495125644

ISBN-13: 9780495125648

Edition: 6th 2007

Authors: Larry Kirkpatrick, Gregory E. Francis

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This text contains a running story line about how the current physics "world view" came to be. This story line is divided into nine parts framed by an introductory chapter ("A World View") which puts the approach into context. This approach gives non-science students an appreciation for the laws of nature and physics contribution to that understanding. The new sixth edition uses the latest physics education principles to emphasize conceptual understanding, both in the main narrative and in the accompanying media program. Designed to fit the specific needs of any non-majors physics course, the text is flexible, fully modular and now can be customized to fit any syllabus through Thomson's…

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List price: $325.95
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Brooks/Cole
Publication date: 1/24/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 672
Weight: 3.872
Language: English



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