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Overview
In Hecht's groundbreaking book, you'll find real-life applications, and unparalleled art and photography program, a presentation that anticipates students' questions, and an approach that emphasizes contemporary physics while interweaving historical perspectives.Hecht's coverage of classical physics is exceptionally clear and insightful. He shows students how 20th-century physics illuminates the classical topics of each chapter, adding excitement to the subject matter.
Approximately 1,300 illustrations make it possible for students to visualize a diversity of physical phenomena. Many of these are multi-frame, sequential drawings allowing students to comprehend the temporal unfolding of complex events. A selection of sketch art teaches students how to create problem-solving diagrams.
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From The Critics
This textbook covers the history of physics, from Newton's laws to today's quantum, nuclear, and high-energy theories. Along the way, it introduces the major aspects of contemporary physics, with chapters on kinematics, centripetal force and gravity, energy, momentum, the states of matter, elasticity and oscillations, waves and sound, the thermal properties of matter, heat and thermal energy, thermodynamics, electrostatics, direct current, circuits, magnetism, electromagnetic induction, radiant energy and light, and special relativity. A companion CD-ROM contains tutorial exercises. Hecht teaches at Adelphi University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBook Details
Published
September 13, 1998
Publisher
Pacific Grove, CA : Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., c1998.
Pages
1050
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780534365776