Modern Introductory Physics

• Main Authors: Holbrow, Charles H. (Author), Lloyd, James N. (Author), Amato, Joseph C. (Author), Galvez, Enrique. (Author), Parks, M. Elizabeth. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Physics, general.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.; Condensed Matter Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79080-0

Modern Introductory Physics, 2nd Edition, by Charles H. Holbrow, James N. Lloyd, Joseph C. Amato, Enrique Galvez, and Beth Parks, is a successful innovative text for teaching introductory college and university physics. It is thematically organized to emphasize the physics that answers the fundament...

Table of Contents:

• What's going on here?- Some physics you need to know
• The chemist's atoms
• Gas laws
• Hard-sphere atoms
• Electrical charges and electric forces
• Electric fields and electric forces
• Magnetic field and magnetic force
• Electrical atoms and the electron
• Waves and light
• Time and length at high speeds
• Energy and momentum at high speeds
• The granularity of light
• X-Rays
• Particles as waves
• Radioactivity and the atomic nucleus
• Spectra and the Bohr atom
• The Heisenberg uncertainty principle
• Atoms, photons, and quantum mechanics
• Entanglement and non-locality
• Epilogue
• Useful information
• Index.