James Trefil: Sciences -

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Résumé :
A solid text with all the key coverage needed the 7?th edition of The Sciences: An Integrated Approach focuses on updated information on the science, examples and integration. Additionally, the new issue includes additional virtual labs, updated end-of-chapter activities, extensively revised biology coverage and online, stepped-out math problems to reinforce problem solving and integration of information. More features in this new edition include: emphasized themes and relationships important for informed citizens, the Great Ideas of Science; increased emphasis on using visuals to help connect with the great ideas of science and learn key concepts; real-world connections: NEW Current events/In the News cases; tools to help understand the basics: In-text pedagogy and new Stepped problems to answer those Big Questions in science, new animations/online labs; and updated Discovery Labs.

Sommaire:
Chapter 1 Science: A Way of Knowing Chapter 2 The Ordered Universe Chapter 3 Energy Chapter 4 Heat and the Second Law of Thermodynamics Chapter 5 Electricity and Magnetism Chapter 6 Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation Chapter 7 Theory of Relativity Chapter 8 The Atom Chapter 9 Quantum Mechanics Chapter 10 Atoms in Combination now includes a Chapter 11 Materials and Their Properties Chapter 12 The Nucleus of the Atom Chapter 13 The Ultimate Structure of Matter Chapter 14 The Stars Chapter 15 Cosmology Chapter 16 Earth and Other Planets Chapter 17 Plate Tectonics Chapter 18 Earth's Many Cycles Chapter 19 Ecology, Ecosystems, and the Environment Chapter 20 Strategies of Life Chapter 21 The Living Cell Chapter 22 Molecules of Life Chapter 23 Classical and Modern Genetics Chapter 24 The New Science of Life Chapter 25 Evolution