Physics
Subtitle: concepts and connections
By: Art Hobson.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Subjects: Physics -- Textbooks
Genres: Textbooks.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The way of science: experience and reason; title: Atoms: the nature of things; title: The Newtonian universe: a clockwork kingdom; title: How things move: Galileo asks the right questions; title: Why things move as they do; title: Newton's universe; title: Transition to the new physics; title: Conservation of energy: you can't get ahead-; title: Second law of thermodynamics:; title: and you can't even break even; title: Light and electromagnetism; title: Electromagnetic radiation and global climate change; title: The post-Newtonian universe: the observer intrudes; title: The special theory of relativity; title: The general theory of relativity and the new cosmology; title: The search for extraterrestrial intelligence; title: The quantum idea; title: The quantum universe; title: Within the atom: fire of the nucleus, fire of the sun; title: The nucleus and radioactivity: a new force -; title: Fusion and fission: a new energy; title: The energy challenge; title: Quantum fields: relativity meets the quantum.