The Sciences
An Integrated Approach
Published on 25. June 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
704 pages
978-0-471-35152-8 (ISBN)
Description
This edition integrates physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth sciences, and biology for students with little or no science background. Many of the "Science News" boxes are updated to show "hot topics", and each copy of the book comes with a Study Guide. It also contains: "Random Walk" essays that serve to show how science is a part of the world around us; "Science of Life", "Ongoing Process of Science" and "Science News" boxes; a "Great Ideas Across the Sciences" study chart, and "Stop and Think" questions that challenge students to think critically about the implications of a scientific discovery or principle.
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Edition
Updated 2r ed
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations(some col.), col.maps,ports.(some col.)
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-471-35152-8 (9780471351528)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Book
10/2000
3rd Edition
Wiley
€99.90
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Content
Science - a way of knowing; the ordered universe; energy; heat and the second law of thermodynamics; electricity and magnetism; waves and electromagnetic radiation; the atom; quantum mechanics; atoms in combination - the chemical bond; properties of materials; the nucleus of the atom; the ultimate structure of matter; Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity; the stars; cosmology; the earth and other planets; plate tectonics; cycles of the earth; ecology, ecosystems, and the environment; strategies of life; molecules of life; the living cell; classical and modern genetics; the new science of life; evolution.