From Atoms to Galaxies
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From Atoms to Galaxies

A Conceptual Physics Approach to Scientific Awareness

  1. 753 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

From Atoms to Galaxies

A Conceptual Physics Approach to Scientific Awareness

About this book

College students in the United States are becoming increasingly incapable of differentiating between proven facts delivered by scientific inquiry and the speculations of pseudoscience. In an effort to help stem this disturbing trend, From Atoms to Galaxies: A Conceptual Physics Approach to Scientific Awareness teaches heightened scientific acuity a

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781439808498
eBook ISBN
9781439882849
Edition
1
Subtopic
Physics
Index
Physics

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Note to the Reader
  5. Note to the Instructor
  6. Part I: In the Beginning . . .
  7. Chapter 1: Science Kindles
  8. Chapter 2: A Dark Interlude
  9. Chapter 3: Science Rekindles
  10. Chapter 4: From Heaven to Earth
  11. Chapter 5: Epilogue: Underdetermination?
  12. Part II: Newtonian Era
  13. Chapter 6: Kinematics: Describing Motion
  14. Chapter 7: Dynamics: Cause of Motion
  15. Chapter 8: Further Topics on Motion
  16. Chapter 9: Gravitation
  17. Chapter 10: Epilogue: Determinism
  18. Part III: Waves and Electromagnetism
  19. Chapter 11: Waves
  20. Chapter 12: Electricity
  21. Chapter 13: Magnetism and Electricity
  22. Chapter 14: Electromagnetic Waves
  23. Chapter 15: Epilogue: Mind and Matter
  24. Part IV: Thermodynamics
  25. Chapter 16: Introduction to Probability
  26. Chapter 17: Statistical Mechanics
  27. Chapter 18: Temperature and Heat
  28. Chapter 19: Epilogue: Whole and Parts
  29. Part V: Twentieth Century Physics:Quantum Theory
  30. Chapter 20: Birth of Quantum Theory
  31. Chapter 21: The Atoms
  32. Chapter 22: Quantum Theory I
  33. Chapter 23: Quantum Theory II
  34. Chapter 24: Epilogue: No "Interpretation"
  35. Part VI: Twentieth Century Physics:Relativity Theory
  36. Chapter 25: Birth of Relativity
  37. Chapter 26: Relativity of Time and Space
  38. Chapter 27: Spacetime Geometry
  39. Chapter 28: E = mc2
  40. Chapter 29: General Theory of Relativity
  41. Chapter 30: Epilogue: No "Marketplace"
  42. Part VII: Twentieth Century Physics:Microcosmology
  43. Chapter 31: On the Experimental Front
  44. Chapter 32: On the Theoretical Front
  45. Chapter 33: Classifying Particles and Forces
  46. Chapter 34: The Standard Model
  47. Chapter 35: New Age "Physics"
  48. Chapter 36: Epilogue: The Eye of Physics
  49. Part VIII: Twentieth Century Physics:Macrocosmology
  50. Chapter 37: Physics of the Cosmos
  51. Chapter 38: Early Universe
  52. Chapter 39:The Last Epoch
  53. Chapter 40: Epilogue: The Closing Dialogue
  54. Part IX: Nature of Science
  55. Chapter 41: Misconceptions about Science
  56. Chapter 42: Characteristics of Science
  57. Chapter 43: Science versus Pseudoscience
  58. Glossary
  59. Answers to Selected Exercises
  60. Bibliography
  61. Back cover