Physics: Concepts and Connections

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Written for the non-science major, this text emphasizes modern physics and the scientific process-and engages students by drawing connections between physics and everyday experience. Hobson takes a conceptual approach, with an appropriate focus on quantitative skills. The Fifth Edition increases coverage of key environmental topics such as global warming and energy, and adds new topics such as momentum. Hobson's text remains the least expensive textbook available for students taking nonmajors p…

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Full title :Physics : Concepts and Connections.

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Publication Date:2013.
Edition:5th ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Pearson Education UK
Place of Publication:Harlow
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource (537 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781292053615, 1292053615
oclc:on1017001304
Dewey Decimal:530

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Glossary -- 1. The Way of Science: Experience and Reason -- Problem Set (5/e): The Way of Science: Experience and Reason -- 2. Atoms: The Nature of Things -- Problem Set (5/e): Atoms: The Nature of Things -- 3. How Things Move: Galileo Asks the Right Questions -- Problem Set (5/e): How Things Move: Galileo Asks the Right Questions -- 4. Why Things Move as They Do -- Problem Set (5/e): Why Things Move as They Do -- 5. Newton's Universe -- Problem Set (5/e): Newton's Universe -- 6. Conservation of Energy: You Can't Get Ahead

Problem Set (5/e): Conservation of Energy: You Can't Get Ahead -- 7. Second Law of Thermodynamics -- Problem Set (5/e): Second Law of Thermodynamics -- 8. Electromagnetism -- Problem Set (5/e): Electromagnetism -- 9. Waves, Light, and Climate Change -- Problem Set (5/e): Waves, Light, and Climate Change -- 10. The Special Theory of Relativity -- Problem Set (5/e): The Special Theory of Relativity -- 11. Einstein's Universe and the New Cosmology -- Problem Set (5/e): Einstein's Universe and the New Cosmology -- 12. The Quantum Idea -- Problem Set (5/e): The Quantum Idea -- 13. The Quantum Universe

Problem Set (5/e): The Quantum Uni…