With the unique Foundations of Physics hands-on, inquiry based instructional approach, more students can understand and retain complex physics concepts. The text and investigations connect each new concept to students’ experience in the lab or real world, and present ideas in both words and illustrations. This program combines the best attributes of conceptual and mathematical instruction as students use equations to analyze data and solve quantitative problems. Landscape "one-concept" page spreads and full-color graphics enhance learning and retention.
What happens to the big bang singularity within string theory? Did time have a beginning? These and other pre-eminent questions, whose implications go far beyond the boundaries of physics and even of science, lie at the forefront of today's research in theoretical particle physics and cosmology. Maurizio Gasperini succeeds in this book in drawing a thorough - yet very accessible and captivating - panorama of the various answers that have so far emerged to those basic questions.
Includes over 4,000 entries covering the subject from absolute zero to the zeeman effect. As well as highlighted entries on key topies, this dictionary will feature: / an extensive range of physics data tables -- electrical conductivity, refractive index, standard physics formulae, and much more, so as to make the book both dictionary and data book. / references to a wide selection of useful physics websites -- for example webelment.com for the latest updates on whether ununoctium really is element 118 or not ! There are over 60,000 A-level students and 5,000 degree students (plus many more in subjects such as electronics or where standard physics knowledge is required).
