Understanding the Properties of Matter 2nd Edition
Understanding the Properties of Matter 2nd Edition by Michael de Podesta
English | 2002 | ISBN-13: 978-0415257886 | 456 Pages | PDF | 83.1 MB
English | 2002 | ISBN-13: 978-0415257886 | 456 Pages | PDF | 83.1 MB
Understanding the Properties of Matter: 2nd Edition takes a unique phenomenological approach to the presentation of matter, materials, and solid-state physics. After an overview of basic ideas and a reminder of the importance of measurement, the author considers in turn gases, solids, liquids, and phase changes. For each topic, the focus is on "what happens." After a preliminary examination of data on the properties of matter, the author raises, then addresses a series of questions concerning the data. It is only in answering these questions that he adopts the theoretical approach to the properties of matter. This approach can reawaken in readers the fascination for the subject that inspired some of the greatest physicists of our age.