What are the laws of physics, and how did they develop? This reader-friendly guide offers illustrative examples of the rules of physical science and how they were formulated. It was written by Francis Bitter, a distinguished teacher and inventor who revolutionized the use of resistive magnets with his development of the Bitter plate. Dr. Bitter shares his scientific expertise in direct, nontechnical terminology as he explains methods of fact gathering, analysis, and experimentation.
The four-part treatment begins with an introductory section on physical measurement. An overview of the...

A different kind of textbook, the result of a six-year effort to base the second year of a two-year physics course on atomic physics. Covers electricity and magnetism, optics, wave mechanics, and atomic physics.