کتاب From Atoms to Galaxies: A Conceptual Physics Approach to Scientific Awareness (نسخه کامل)

Features
Maintains a strictly conceptual approach in teaching physics to nonscience university students
Uses physical arguments to controvert nonscientific and pseudoscientific beliefs
Emphasizes how modern physics is abused by New Age gurus and other mystagogues
Includes numerous Food for Thought and epilogue essays, as well as several dedicated chapters, to scrutinize misconceptions about science in general, and physics in particular
Requires math at most at the high school level
Provides enrichment with an accompanying CD that contains a wealth of mathematical information (at the level of high school algebra) for those who wish to go beyond the concepts
Makes use of an elaborate reference scheme that facilitates comprehension by interconnecting the textual material, a comprehensive set of marginal notes, and the CD contents
Includes answers to challenging questions posed in each chapter, a glossary, a set of guiding questions, conceptual exercises, and numerical problems at the end of each chapter
Test bank and interactive lecture presentations available with qualifying course adoption

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