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  title info:
    title: Modern Introductory Physics
  name:
    name part: Holbrow, Charles H.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lloyd, James N.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Amato, Joseph C.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Galvez, Enrique.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Parks, M. Elizabeth.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 658 p. 245 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Modern Introductory Physics, 2nd Edition, by Charles H. Holbrow, James N. Lloyd, Joseph C. Amato, Enrique Galvez, and Beth Parks, is a successful innovative text for teaching introductory college and university physics. It is thematically organized to emphasize the physics that answers the fundamental question: Why do we believe in atoms and their properties? The book provides a sound introduction to basic physical concepts with particular attention to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century physics underlying our modern ideas of atoms and their structure. After a review of basic Newtonian mechanics, the book discusses early physical evidence that matter is made of atoms. With a simple model of the atom Newtonian mechanics can explain the ideal gas laws, temperature, and viscosity. Basic concepts of electricity and magnetism are introduced along with a more complicated model of the atom to account for the observed electrical properties of atoms. The physics of waves---particularly light and x-rays---and basic features of relativity are explored and used to reveal further details of atomic structure. Following the discovery of radioactivity, transmutation, and the atomic nucleus, Bohr’s model of the hydrogen atom sets the stage for a view of the atom that becomes fully modern with the introduction of the ideas of quantum mechanics. This book presents these ideas in terms of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and Feynman’s rules of quantum mechanics and also discusses the intriguing topics of entanglement, non-locality, and Bell’s inequalities. Here, as everywhere in this book, there is strong emphasis on experiments and observable phenomena that have shaped and confirmed the concepts of physics. To help students make a good transition from high-school physics to university physics, this book fosters quantitative skills: There is much use of order-of-magnitude calculations, scaling arguments, proportionalities, approximations, and other basic tools of quantitative rea…
  table of contents: What’s Going On Here? -- Some Physics You Need to Know -- The Chemist’s Atoms -- Gas Laws -- Hard-Sphere Atoms -- Electric Charges and Electric Forces -- Electric Fields and Electric Forces -- Magnetic Field and Magnetic Force -- Electrical Atoms and the Electron -- Waves and Light -- Time and Length at High Speeds -- Energy and Momentum at High Speeds -- The Granularity of Light -- X-Rays -- Particles as Waves -- Radioactivity and the Atomic Nucleus -- Spectra and the Bohr Atom -- The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle -- Atoms, Photons, and Quantum Mechanics -- Entanglement and Non-Locality -- Epilogue.
  note: by Charles H. Holbrow, James N. Lloyd, Joseph C. Amato, Enrique Galvez, M. Elizabeth Parks.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Atoms
  subject:
    topic: Condensed matter
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics, general
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Methods in Physics
  subject:
    topic: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
  subject:
    topic: Condensed Matter Physics
  classification: QC19.2-20.85
  classification: 530.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
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