Understanding Physics: Textbook

Understanding Physics: The Textbook

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TITLE PAGE A Periodic Table
Brief Contents (78 KB) Part Two: Fields and Atoms
Preface (78 KB) Prologue to Part Two (73 KB)
Part One: Matter and Motion Chapter 10: Electricity and Magnetism (573 KB)
Prologue to Part One (125 KB) Chapter 11: The Electric Age (546 KB)
Chapter 1: Motion Matters (318 KB) Chapter 12: Electromagnetic Waves (545 KB)
Chapter 2: Moving the Earth (688 KB) Chapter 13: Probing the Atom (417 KB)
Chapter 3: Understanding Motion (770 KB) Chapter 14: The Quantum Model of the Atom (401 KB)
Chapter 4: Newton's Unified Theory (307 KB) Chapter 15: Quantum Mechanics (286 KB)
Chapter 5: Conserving Matter and Motion (388 KB) Chapter 16: Solids Matter (321 KB)
Chapter 6: The Dynamics of Heat (363 KB) Chapter 17: Probing the Nucleus (323 KB)
Chapter 7: Heat-A Matter of Motion (498 KB) Chapter 18: The Nucleus and Its Applications (882 KB)
Chapter 8: Wave Motion (702 KB) Illustration Credits (42 KB)
Chapter 9: Einstein and Relativity Theory (319 KB) Index (105 KB)
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