Physics around us : how and why things work /
Henley, Ernest M.
Physics around us : how and why things work / Ernest M. Henley and J. Gregory Dash - Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub., 2012 - xix, 361 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes indexes
The sizes of typical objects, and how we know -- Linear motion -- Galileo; free fall, projectile motion -- Newtonian mechanics -- Work and energy -- Impulse and momentum -- Rational dynamics -- Solar system and gravitation -- Oscillations and waves -- Thermal physics -- Heat flow -- States of matter: solid, liquids and gases -- Static electricity -- Current and circuits -- Magnetism -- Electromagnetism--II -- Electromagnetic waves -- Geometrical optics--Image formation -- Physical optics -- The beginning of modern physics -- Atoms -- Particles and waves--an introduction to quantum mechanics -- The special theory of relativity -- Nuclear and particle physics
9789814350631 (pbk.) 981435063X (pbk.)
Physics--Textbooks
Physics around us : how and why things work / Ernest M. Henley and J. Gregory Dash - Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub., 2012 - xix, 361 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes indexes
The sizes of typical objects, and how we know -- Linear motion -- Galileo; free fall, projectile motion -- Newtonian mechanics -- Work and energy -- Impulse and momentum -- Rational dynamics -- Solar system and gravitation -- Oscillations and waves -- Thermal physics -- Heat flow -- States of matter: solid, liquids and gases -- Static electricity -- Current and circuits -- Magnetism -- Electromagnetism--II -- Electromagnetic waves -- Geometrical optics--Image formation -- Physical optics -- The beginning of modern physics -- Atoms -- Particles and waves--an introduction to quantum mechanics -- The special theory of relativity -- Nuclear and particle physics
9789814350631 (pbk.) 981435063X (pbk.)
Physics--Textbooks