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Designed specifically for non-science majors and beginning science students, this easy-to-understand text presents the fundamental concepts of the five divisions of physical sciences: physics, chemistry, astronomy, meteorology and geology. The new edition offers new high-interest "Physical Science Today" articles featuring timely and relevant applications.
Preface.
About the Authors.
Measurement.
Motion.
Force and Motion.
Work and energy.
Temperature and Heat.
Waves and Sound.
Optics and Wave effects.
Electricity and Magnetism.
Atomic Physics.
Nuclear Physics.
The Chemical elements.
Chemical Bonding.
Chemical Reactions.
Organic Chemistry.
Place and Time.
The Solar System.
Moons and Small Solar System Bodies.
The Universe.
The Atmosphere.
Atmospheric effects.
Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics.
Minerals, Rocks, and Volcanoes.
Surface Processes.
Geologic Time.
Appendixes.
Answers to Confidence Exercises.
Answers to Selected Questions.
Glossary.
Index