000 01189 a2200169 4500
020 _a9780072472172
082 _a530
_bMAR
100 _aMarch Robert H.
245 _aPhysics for poets
250 _aEd.5
260 _aNew Delhi
_bTata McGraw Hill Pub. Co.Ltd.
_c2003
300 _axvi,288p.
500 _aCONTENTS 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
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