Understanding Physics
Series: Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics;
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Product details:
- Edition number Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
- Publisher Springer New York
- Date of Publication 19 June 2013
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9781475777000
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages851 pages
- Size 254x178 mm
- Weight 1642 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XXIII, 851 p. 0
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Long description:
Understanding Physics provides a thorough grounding in contemporary physics while placing physics into its social and historical context. Based in large part on the highly respected Project Physics Course developed by two of the authors, it also integrates the results of recent pedagogical research. The text thus: - teaches about the basic phenomena in the physical world and the concepts developed to explain them - shows that science is a rational human endeavor with a long and continuing tradition, involving many different cultures and people - develops facility in critical thinking, reasoned argumentation, evaluation of evidence, mathematical modeling, and ethical values The treatment emphasizes not only what we know but also how we know it, why we believe it, and what effects that knowledge has: - Why do we believe the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun? - Why do we believe that matter is made of atoms? - How do relativity theory and quantum mechanics alter our conception of Nature and in what ways do they leave the classical concepts unchanged? - What impact does the knowledge of finite energy resources have on our society? - How have applications of fundamental science (such as the steam engine, the laser, the electric generator, the transistor) affected our lives? - How does the evidence for non-scientific ideas, such as UFOs, ESP, and the like, differ from the evidence for accepted scientific results? The course covers almost exactly the topics recommended in the National Science Education Standards and the Project 2061 Benchmarks. The text is intended for a full-year course, but the first half begins with a discussion of topics from 20th century physics before turning to Newtonian mechanics, and is thus suitable for use in a single term. An instructor guide and a student laboratory manual complement the text.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Motion Matters.- 2. Moving the Earth.- 3. Understanding Motion.- 4. Newton’s Unified Theory.- 5. Conserving Matter and Motion.- 6. The Dynamics of Heat.- 7. Heat: A Matter of Motion.- 8. Wave Motion.- 9. Einstein and Relativity Theory.- 10. Electricity and Magnetism.- 11. The Electric Age.- 12. Electromagnetic Waves.- 13. Probing the Atom.- 14. The Quantum Model of the Atom.- 15. Quantum Mechanics.- 16. Solids Matter.- 17. Probing the Nucleus.- 18. The Nucleus and Its Applications.- Illustration Credits.
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