Understanding the properties of matter / Michael de Podesta.
"Understanding the Properties of Matter: 2nd Edition is an entertaining and innovative textbook that fulfills the needs of undergraduate physicists and physics teachers alike. This book introduces the properties of matter, taking a unique phenomenological approach. After an overview of basic id...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Taylor & Francis,
2001.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Summary: | "Understanding the Properties of Matter: 2nd Edition is an entertaining and innovative textbook that fulfills the needs of undergraduate physicists and physics teachers alike. This book introduces the properties of matter, taking a unique phenomenological approach. After an overview of basic ideas and a reminder of the importance of measurement, the book considers gases, solids, liquids and phase changes. Students benefit from extensive examples and end-of-chapter exercises, and this new edition has an entire chapter of extended exercises. This approach allows both students and teachers to rediscover a fascination for the subjects that have excited some of the greatest physicists of our age."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 0415257875 9780415257879 0415257883 9780415257886 |