Physics: Concepts and Connections
Art Hobson, Paul P. Craig · Physics Today · 1995
I. PRELUDE: OF STARS AND ATOMS. 1. The Way of Science: Experience and Ideas. 2. Atoms: The Nature of Things. II. THE NEWTONIAN UNIVERSE: A CLOCKWORK KINGDOM. 3. How Things Move: Galileo Asks the Right Questions. 4. Why Things Move As They Do. 5. The Universe According to Newton. III. TRANSITION TO THE NEW PHYSICS. 6. Conservation of Energy: You Can't Get Ahead -- 7. The Second Law of Thermodynamics: -- And You Can't Even Break Even. 8. Light and Electromagnetism. 9. Electromagnetic Waves. IV. THE POST-NEWTONIAN UNIVERSE: THE OBSERVER INTRUDES. 10. Relativity Theory. 11. The Universe According to Einstein. 12. Are We Alone? The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. 13. Quantum Theory. 14. The Universe According to Quantum Theory. V. WITHIN THE ATOM: FIRE OF THE NUCLEUS, FIRE OF THE SUN. 15. The Nucleus and Radioactivity: A New Force. 16. Fusion and Fission: -- And a New Energy. 17. The Energy Future. 18. Quantum Fields: Relativity Meets the Quantum. Epilogue: Summing Up. Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises and Problems. Glossary. Photo Credits. Index.