The sciences : an integrated approach
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The sciences : an integrated approach
John Wiley, c2000
2nd ed., update ed
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
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Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This edition integrates physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth sciences, and biology for students with little or no science background. Many of the "Science News" boxes are updated to show "hot topics", and each copy of the book comes with a Study Guide. It also contains: "Random Walk" essays that serve to show how science is a part of the world around us; "Science of Life", "Ongoing Process of Science" and "Science News" boxes; a "Great Ideas Across the Sciences" study chart, and "Stop and Think" questions that challenge students to think critically about the implications of a scientific discovery or principle.
Table of Contents
- Science - a way of knowing
- the ordered universe
- energy
- heat and the second law of thermodynamics
- electricity and magnetism
- waves and electromagnetic radiation
- the atom
- quantum mechanics
- atoms in combination - the chemical bond
- properties of materials
- the nucleus of the atom
- the ultimate structure of matter
- Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity
- the stars
- cosmology
- the earth and other planets
- plate tectonics
- cycles of the earth
- ecology, ecosystems, and the environment
- strategies of life
- molecules of life
- the living cell
- classical and modern genetics
- the new science of life
- evolution.
by "Nielsen BookData"