Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #943539 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1200 pages

Review
"The writing style is student-friendly and thought provoking. Students reading this text would certainly not be bored! The authoras use of pictures, illustrations, historical notes, references, and sidelines is quite effective. Clearly intensive research was done for each section to make it as interesting and creative as possible. The text has such an interesting presentation to it. I appreciate the creativity employed. I want to especially thank the author for paying attention to historical context. I think the author did a FANTASTIC job of incorporating sketches, photographs, illustrations, and diagrams in the book. The diverse approach to artistic representation is very much appreciated by both student and instructor. The "side notes" that accompany each figure, sketch, drawing, and illustration is complete and to the point. Those explanations are concise and topic-relevant. The quality and quantity of figures in Hechtas book should be the envy of other College Physics texts."

Synopsis
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 p