Physics for poets

Author(s)

• March, Robert H.

Bibliographic Information

Physics for poets

Robert H. March

McGraw-Hill, c2003

5th ed

• pbk. : acid-free paper

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

1 A Vast and Most Excellent Science2 Toward a Science of Mechanics3 The Denouement: Newton's Laws4 The Moon and the Apple5 The Romance of Energy6 One Last Part for the Machine7 Waves8 Does the Earth Really Move?9 The Birth of Relativity10 The Wedding of Space and Time11 E=mc2 and All That12 Did God Have Any Choice?13 The Atom Returns14 Rutherford Probes the Atom15 The Atom and the Quantum16 Particles and Waves17 Does God Play Dice?18 Schrodinger's Cat19 The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of20 The Whole Shebang

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA64323411
• ISBN:
  • 0072472170
• LCCN: 2002020019
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 288 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QC23.2
  • DC21 : 530
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Physics