Advancing physics AS/A2 / edited by Jon Ogborn, Ken Dobson and Mary Whitehouse - 2nd ed. - Bristol, U.K. : The Institute of Physics Pub., 2001 - 3 v : col. ill. ; 30 cm.

"Institute of Physics in association with OCR and the Institution of Electrical Engineers" - Back cover Student's book edited by Jon Ogborn and Mary Whitehouse

Course Guide : Introduction. - Course Content. Communication. Designer Materials. Waves and Quantum Behaviour. Space and Time. Models and Rules. Matter in Extremes. Fields. Fundamental Patticles of Matter. Advances in Physics. - The Resources and How to Use Them. - Technical Supports, Apparatus and Computing Requirements. - Teaching and Learning with Advancing Physics. - Assessment. - Useful Information and Addresses. - Acknowledgments. - Advancing Physics AS : Introduction. - Physics in action communication. 1. Imaging. 2. Sensing. 3. Signalling. - Designer materials. 4. Testing materials. 5. Looking inside materials. - Understanding processes waves and quantum behaviour. 6. Wave behaviour. 7. Quantum behaviour. - Space and time. 8. Mapping space and time. 9. Computing the next move. - Acknowledgments. - Answers to questions. - Index. - Advancing Physics A2 : Introduction. - Rise and fall of the clockwork universe models and rules. 10. Creating models. 11. Out into space. 12. Our place in the universe. - Matter in extremes. 13. Matter : very simple. 14. Matter : very hot and very cold. - Field and particle pictures fileds. 15. Electromagnetic machines. 16. Fundamental particles of matter. 17. Probing deep into matter. 18. Ionising radiation and risk. - Advances in physics. Case studies : advances in physics. - Acknowledgments. - Answers to questions. - Index.

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