Sciences
eBook - PDF

Sciences

  1. 656 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

About this book

A solid text with all the key coverage needed the 7th edition of The Sciences: An Integrated Approach focuses on updated information on the science, examples and integration. Additionally, the new issue includes additional virtual labs, updated end-of-chapter activities, extensively revised biology coverage and online, stepped-out math problems to reinforce problem solving and integration of information.

More features in this new edition include: emphasized themes and relationships important for informed citizens, the "Great Ideas of Science"; increased emphasis on using visuals to help connect with the great ideas of science and learn key concepts; real-world connections: NEW Current events/"In the News" cases; tools to help understand the basics: In-text pedagogy and new "Stepped problems" to answer those "Big Questions" in science, new animations/online labs; and updated Discovery Labs.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Preface
  5. Contents
  6. 1 SCIENCE: A WAY OF KNOWING
  7. 2 THE ORDERED UNIVERSE
  8. 3 ENERGY
  9. 4 HEAT AND THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
  10. 5 ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
  11. 6 WAVES AND ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
  12. 7 ALBERT EINSTEIN AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
  13. 8 THE ATOM
  14. 9 QUANTUM MECHANICS
  15. 10 ATOMS IN COMBINATION: THE CHEMICAL BOND
  16. 11 MATERIALS AND THEIR PROPERTIES
  17. 12 THE NUCLEUS OF THE ATOM
  18. 13 THE ULTIMATE STRUCTURE OF MATTER
  19. 14 THE STARS
  20. 15 COSMOLOGY
  21. 16 EARTH AND OTHER PLANETS
  22. 17 PLATE TECTONICS
  23. 18 EARTH’S MANY CYCLES
  24. 19 ECOLOGY, ECOSYSTEMS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
  25. 20 STRATEGIES OF LIFE
  26. 21 THE LIVING CELL
  27. 22 MOLECULES OF LIFE
  28. 23 CLASSICAL AND MODERN GENETICS
  29. 24 THE NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE
  30. 25 EVOLUTION
  31. A HUMAN ANATOMY
  32. B UNITS AND NUMBERS
  33. C THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE
  34. D SELECTED PHYSICAL CONSTANTS AND ASTRONOMICAL DATA
  35. E PROPERTIES OF THE PLANETS
  36. F THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS
  37. GLOSSARY
  38. INDEX