ABOUT THE BOOK: The Physics Department in every institution should enkindle the student's innate human curiosity to understand the world around us. Isaac Newton said, "I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Like Isaac Newton, if you wish to discover the basis of physics and know the science of "why things work," you are on the road to becoming a physicist. Physics forms the basis of most present and future technology. Physics deals...