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Physics : concepts & connections
- Author
- Hobson, Art, 1934-
- Title
- Physics : concepts & connections / Art Hobson.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 4th ed.
- Published
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007.
- Description
- xvii, 470, 13, 14, 3, 8 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005036333.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Prelude of stars and atoms
- The way of science: experience and reason
- Atoms: the nature of things
- The Newtonian universe: a clockwork kingdom
- How things move: Galileo asks the right questions
- Why things move as they do
- Newton's universe
- Transition to the new physics
- Conservation of energy: you can't get ahead-
- Second law of thermodynamics:
- and you can't even break even
- Light and electromagnetism
- Electromagnetic radiation and global climate change
- The post-Newtonian universe: the observer intrudes
- The special theory of relativity
- The general theory of relativity and the new cosmology
- The search for extraterrestrial intelligence
- The quantum idea
- The quantum universe
- Within the atom: fire of the nucleus, fire of the sun
- The nucleus and radioactivity: a new force
- Fusion and fission: a new energy
- The energy challenge
- Quantum fields: relativity meets the quantum.
- Subject headings
- Physics--Textbooks.
- ISBN
- 0131879464 9780131879461