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A thorough grounding in contemporary physics while placing the subject into its social and historical context. Based largely 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 the basic phenomena in the physical world and the concepts developed to explain them; shows that science is a rational human endeavour with a long and continuing tradition, involving many different cultures and people; develops facility in critical thinking, reasoned argumentation, evaluation of evidence, mathematical modelling, and ethical values. The treatment emphasises not only what we know but also how we know it, why we believe it, and what effects this knowledge has. (Verlagsinformation)

 

 

Brief Contents:

Preface ix

 

PART ONE: MATTER AND MOTION

Prologue to Part One 3

1 Motion Matters 15

2 Moving the Earth 57

3 Understanding Motion 117

4 Newton's Unified Theory 171

5 Conserving Matter and Motion 211

6 The Dynamics of Heat 253

7 Heat: A Matter of Motion 293

8 Wave Motion 331

9 Einstein and Relativity Theory 405

 

PART TWO: FIELDS AND ATOMS

Prologue to Part Two 451

10 Electricity and Magnetism 459

11 The Electric Age 505

12 Electromagnetic Waves 549

13 Probing the Atom 585

14 The Quantum Model of the Atom 621

15 Quantum Mechanics 661

16 Solids Matter 693

17 Probing the Nucleus 723

18 The Nucleus and Its Applications 763

Illustration Credits 819

Index 829