UNITS AND POWERS OF TEN PHYSICS AND ITS METHODOLOGY What Is Physics? Methodology The First Scientist Why Do You Believe? Back to the Questions How Do We Answer theQuestions? The Need to BeQuantitative Theories Models AestheticJudgments MOTION Relating the Variables of Motion Graphs of One-Dimensional Motion Constant Speed Constant Acceleration Two-Dimensional Motion FORCES The Fundamental Forces A Specific Force Law: Newtonian Gravity Weight How Does Force Affect Motion? Newton's SecondLaw Newton, the Apple, and the Moon Combining Two Laws The Mass of the Earth Newton's Firs. Read more...
Abstract:
Offers the nonscientist an alternative view: one that demonstrates how physics is perpetually evolving and shows how so many seemingly diverse concepts are intimately connected. This book aims to tell readers the story of what we have learned about nature so far and how we have done it. Read more...
Author(s): Sadoff, Ahren
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 234
City: Hoboken
Tags: Физика;Философия физики;
Content: Front cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Author
Chapter 1. Units and Powers of 10
Chapter 2. Physics and Its Methodology
Chapter 3. Motion
Chapter 4. Forces
Chapter 5. Electromagnetism
Chapter 6. The Field Concept
Chapter 7. The Character of Natural Laws
Chapter 8. Conservation Laws
Chapter 9. The History of the Atom
Chapter 10. The Nucleus
Chapter 11. The Nature of Light
Chapter 12. The Theory of Relativity
Chapter 13. Quantum Mechanics
Chapter 14. The Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics
Chapter 15. Cosmology
Epilogue
Index
Back cover
