Front cover; Contents; Preface; Note to the Reader; Note to the Instructor; Part I: In the Beginning . . .; Chapter 1: Science Kindles; Chapter 2: A Dark Interlude; Chapter 3: Science Rekindles; Chapter 4: From Heaven to Earth; Chapter 5: Epilogue: Underdetermination?; Part II: …
College students in the United States are becoming increasingly incapable of differentiating between proven facts delivered by scientific inquiry and the speculations of pseudoscience. In an effort to help stem this disturbing trend, From Atoms to Galaxies: A Conceptual Physics …
College students in the United States are becoming increasingly incapable of differentiating between proven facts delivered by scientific inquiry and the speculations of pseudoscience. In an effort to help stem this disturbing trend, From Atoms to Galaxies: A Conceptual Physics …
... present[s] some of the most striking ideas behind physics but also give[s] students and the general public the opportunity of reflecting on the implications of these ideas and provide them with the tools to draw a distinction between scientific fact and nonsense. The book do…
This book provides a qualitative exposition of relativity theory on the basis of the constancy of the speed of light. Using Einstein's signal velocity as the defining idea for the notion of simultaneity and the fact that the speed of light is independent of the motion of its sou…