TY - BOOK AU - Henley,Ernest M. AU - Dash,J.G. TI - Physics around us: how and why things work SN - 9789814350631 (pbk.) PY - 2012/// CY - Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ PB - World Scientific Pub. KW - Physics KW - Textbooks N1 - 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 ER -