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Physics In The Modern World Second Edition by Jerry B Marion; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Physics in the Modern World, Second Edition focuses on the applications of physics in a world dominated by technology and the many ways that physical ideas are manifest in everyday situations, from the operation of rockets and cameras to space travel and X-ray photography. It shows how physical principles bring a pattern of simplicity and continuity to the diverse natural and technological world around us. Automobile air bags, artificial gravity, and pollution control, as well as appliance economics, radar, and other modern phenomena and devices are discussed to emphasize the way that physical principles are applied in today's world. Comprised of 21 chapters, this book begins with an introduction to physical ideas, with particular reference to the basic concepts used in describing and measuring things such as length, time, and mass. The discussion then turns to motion, force, and linear momentum, along with circular motion, torque, and angular momentum. Subsequent chapters focus on gravitation and space travel; energy and electricity; liquids and gases; electromagnetism; heat; waves; electromagnetic radiation; light; atoms; relativity; structure of matter; nuclei and nuclear power;

Who reads Physics In The Modern World Second Edition?

Author

Jerry B Marion; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Publisher

Academic Press a subsidiary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780124722859

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Mathematics, Physics