TY  - GEN
AU  - March Robert H.
TI  - Physics for poets
SN  - 9780072472172
U1  - 530 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Tata McGraw Hill Pub. Co.Ltd.
N1  - CONTENTS
PREFACE       xi
 INTRODUCTION       xiii
1   A Vast and Most Excellent Science	1
2   Toward a Science of Mechanics	16
3   The Denouement: Newton's Laws	27
4   The Moon and the Apple	36
5   The Romance of Energy	46
6   One Last Part for the Machine	59
7   Waves	73
8   Does the Earth Really Move?	85
9   The Birth of Relativity	96
10 The Wedding of Space and Time	109
11 E = me2 and All That                  122
12 Did God Have Any Choice?	130
13 The Atom Returns	150
14 Rutherford Probes the Atom	160
15 The Atom and the Quantum 173
16 Particles and Waves 192
17 Does God Play Dice?  205
18 Schrodinger's Cat 216
19 The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of 223
20 The Whole Shebang 238
Afterword       248
Questions and Exercises       249
Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises       273
Index       277

ER  -