Understanding Physics

• Main Authors: Cassidy, David. (Author), Holton, Gerald. (Author), Rutherford, James. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2002.
• Series: Undergraduate Texts In Contemporary Physics
• Subjects: Physics.; Physics, general.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Understanding Physics is a completely revised, updated, and expanded e- tion of the Project Physics Course. It is an integrated introductory physics course, developed with funding from the Carnegie Corporation and the Sloan Foundation and with the close cooperation of Springer-Verlag New York. In ap...

Table of Contents:

• One Matter and Motion
• Prologue to Part One
• Motion Matters
• Moving the Earth
• Understanding Motion
• NewtonỚ"s Unified Theory
• Conserving Matter and Motion
• The Dynamics of Heat
• HeatỚ A Matter of Motion
• Wave Motion
• Einstein and Relativity Theory
• Fields And Atoms
• Prologue to Part Two
• Electricity and Magnetism
• The Electric Age
• Electromagnetic Waves
• Probing the Atom
• The Quantum Model of the Atom
• Quantum Mechanics
• Solids Matter
• Probing the Nucleus
• The Nucleus and Its Applications.