The course covers almost exactly the topics recommended in the National Science Education Standards and the Project 2061 Benchmarks. The text is intended for a full-year course, but the first half begins with a discussion of topics from 20th century physics before turning to Newtonian mechanics, and is thus suitable for use in a single term. An instructor guide and a student laboratory manual complement the text.

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Autorentext
Gerald Holton ist Mallinckrodt Professor für Physik und Professor für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften an der Harvard University. Er ist daneben Mitherausgeber der Gesammelten Werke von Albert Einstein und hat schon mehrere Bücher veröffentlicht, so z. B. "Themata" aus der Reihe "Facetten der Physik".

Zusammenfassung
From the reviews: "The writing is clear and...precise. [!] it would be possible to assemble a very interesting and exciting course using this text. The general university undergraduate needs to be acquainted with these basic ideas - and this might be just the place to start!" The Physicist

Inhalt

1. Motion Matters.- 2. Moving the Earth.- 3. Understanding Motion.- 4. Newton's Unified Theory.- 5. Conserving Matter and Motion.- 6. The Dynamics of Heat.- 7. Heat: A Matter of Motion.- 8. Wave Motion.- 9. Einstein and Relativity Theory.- 10. Electricity and Magnetism.- 11. The Electric Age.- 12. Electromagnetic Waves.- 13. Probing the Atom.- 14. The Quantum Model of the Atom.- 15. Quantum Mechanics.- 16. Solids Matter.- 17. Probing the Nucleus.- 18. The Nucleus and Its Applications.- Illustration Credits.