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Modern Introductory Physics

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. C. H. Holbrow

    1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University, Hamilton, USA

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  2. J. N. Lloyd

    1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University, Hamilton, USA

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  3. J. C. Amato

    1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University, Hamilton, USA

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. What’s Going On Here?

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 1-10

  3. Some Physics You Need to Know

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 11-49

  4. The Chemist’s Atoms

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 51-67

  5. Gas Laws

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 69-91

  6. Hard-Sphere Atoms

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 93-127

  7. Electric Forces and Fields

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 129-162

  8. Magnetic Field and Magnetic Force

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 163-185

  9. Electrical Atoms and the Electron

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 187-235

  10. Waves and Light

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 237-276

  11. Time and Length at High Speeds

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 277-309

  12. Energy and Momentum at High Speeds

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 311-334

  13. The Granularity of Light

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 335-352

  14. X-Rays

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 353-383

  15. Particles as Waves

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 385-405

  16. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 407-423

  17. Radioactivity and the Atomic Nucleus

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 425-461

  18. Spectra and the Bohr Atom

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 463-492

  19. Epilogue

    • C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato
    Pages 493-496

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 497-519
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About this book

This book grew out of an ongoing effort to modernize Colgate University's three-term, introductory, calculus-Ievel physics course. The book is for the first term of this course and is intended to help first-year college students make a good transition from high-school physics to university physics. The book concentrates on the physics that explains why we believe in the existence of atoms and their properties. This story line, which motivates much of our professional research, has helped us limit the material presented to a more humane and more realistic amount than is presented in many beginning university physics courses. The theme of atoms also supports the presentation of more non-Newtonian topics and ideas than is customary in the first term of calculus-Ievel physics. We think it is important and desirable to introduce students sooner than usual to some of the major ideas that shape contemporary physicists' views of the nature and behavior of matter. On the verge of the twenty-first century such a goal seems particularly appropriate.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University, Hamilton, USA

    C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Modern Introductory Physics

  • Authors: C. H. Holbrow, J. N. Lloyd, J. C. Amato

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3078-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-3078-4Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 519

  • Number of Illustrations: 597 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Mathematical Methods in Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics

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