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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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.