Physics : concepts and connections / Art Hobson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prelude of stars and atoms -- The way of science: experience and reason -- Atoms: the nature of things -- The Newtonian universe: a clockwork kingdom -- How things move: Galileo asks the right questions -- Why things move as they do -- Newton's universe -- Transition to the new physics -- Conservation of energy: you can't get ahead- -- Second law of thermodynamics: -- and you can't even break even -- Light and electromagnetism -- Electromagnetic radiation and global climate change -- The post-Newtonian universe: the observer intrudes -- The special theory of relativity -- The general theory of relativity and the new cosmology -- The search for extraterrestrial intelligence -- The quantum idea -- The quantum universe -- Within the atom: fire of the nucleus, fire of the sun -- The nucleus and radioactivity: a new force - -- Fusion and fission: a new energy -- The energy challenge -- Quantum fields: relativity meets the quantum.