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Physics for Poets

5th Edition

By Robert March

Publication Date: Apr 22, 2002

ISBN:0072472170 / 9780072472172

Language: English

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Imprint: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education Dimensions: 9 X 6.3 Inches (US)

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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.

Physics for Poets

1 A Vast and Most Excellent Science

2 Toward a Science of Mechanics

3 The Denouement: Newton's Laws

4 The Moon and the Apple

5 The Romance of Energy

6 One Last Part for the Machine

7 Waves

8 Does the Earth Really Move?

9 The Birth of Relativity

10 The Wedding of Space and Time

11 E=mc2 and All That

12 Did God Have Any Choice?

13 The Atom Returns

14 Rutherford Probes the Atom

15 The Atom and the Quantum

16 Particles and Waves

17 Does God Play Dice?

18 Schrodinger's Cat

19 The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of

20 The Whole Shebang