BASIC PHYSICS: A SURVEY OF CONCEPTS

This book gives you a lucid and exhaustive coverage of basic concepts in classical and modern physics including quantum theory, and the special and general theories of relativity.

All these concepts are built up here from an elementary level, and are followed up to a considerable extent, stressing on their internal logic. The book is self-contained and comprehensive, based on high school mathematics, including elementary calculus. A few mathematical tools at a more advanced level have been explained clearly before these have been made use of.

It will be useful study material for the student of physics starting from the advanced school level right up to the college level and even to the level of graduate studies since it does not stop half way while developing a topic, being tied to this or that particular physics syllabus. Instead, it aims at presenting the entire network made up of basic concepts of physics and giving the reader a view of its beautiful, unitary structure.

This makes the volume a unique source-book of basic physics, of exceptional value not only to the student of physics but to students of other disciplines such as chemistry, engineering, geology and even the biological sciences. It is also quite likely to be of value to physics teachers and to persons with a general interest in physics. It makes for delightful reading, though at a serious level.

How does the tension vary with the angle of winding for a string under friction? What is the entropy principle? How does the Doppler formula look when the source or the observer possesses an acceleration? What is the principle of a three phase power supply? How does a synchronous motor differ from an asynchronous one? How does ray optics relate to wave optics? Why is it possible to work out the black body spectrum by referring to an assembly of oscillators? What is the Schwarzschild solution in general relativity? What is the nuclear mass formula? How does a transistor amplifier work? ..... For these and a host of other questions in basic physics , turn to the pages of this book, where everything is built up from first principles.

The author of this book is a renowned teacher and author in physics. He has been devoted to research and teaching over long years. He has lectured widely on topics in frontier areas of physics, both to specialists and to audience with a general interest in science.