num_pages: 304
description: Described by one reviewer as a future literary rival to Sagan and Hawkins, Alan Lightman has written a text for liberal arts students that promises to have a far reaching effect on the way the course is taught. The book is intended for the freshman-/sophomore- level course at liberal arts schools. Lightman presents four ideas of The Conservation of Energy, The Second Law of Thermodynamics, The Relativity of Time, and the Wave-Particle Duality of Nature (Quantum Theory). The two basic aims of this book are to provide a grasp of the nature of science and to explore the connections between science and the humanities.
language: English
title: Great Ideas in Physics
titlecomplete: Great Ideas in Physics
genres: Reference, Science, Physics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 63
publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers