Physics for Poets - Brossura

March, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0072472170 ISBN 13: 9780072472172

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2002

Riassunto

Very accessible, brief, introduction to physics for the non-science major. A text written for the curious, non-scientist who wants to know how modern physics came to be, and figure out what lies behind the stories in the science columns of their newspapers.

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Contenuti

1 A Vast and Most Excellent Science

2 Toward a Science of Mechanics

3 The Denouement: Newton's Laws

4 The Moon and the Apple

5 The Romance of Energy

6 One Last Part for the Machine

7 Waves

8 Does the Earth Really Move?

9 The Birth of Relativity

10 The Wedding of Space and Time

11 E=mc2 and All That

12 Did God Have Any Choice?

13 The Atom Returns

14 Rutherford Probes the Atom

15 The Atom and the Quantum

16 Particles and Waves

17 Does God Play Dice?

18 Schrodinger's Cat

19 The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of

20 The Whole Shebang

Product Description

Book by March Robert

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0072472170
• ISBN 13: 9780072472172
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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