‎Holton (Gerald) and Roller (Duane H.D.)‎
‎Foundations of Modern Physical Science‎

‎Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. , Addison-Wesley Physics Books Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1959 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's full blue printed clothes, red title-piece on the spine, no dust-jacket fort In-8 1 vol. - 805 pages‎

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‎many black and white text-figures, 1 plate in frontispiece second reprinted edition, 1959 (1st was 1958) Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Introduction, xxiii, Text, 782 pages - 1. The study of motion : Speed and acceleration - Galileo and the kinematicq of free fall - Projectile motion - 2. The study of forces : Newton's law of motion - Uniform circular motion - 3. The study of planetary systems : The astronomy of Ancient Greece - The heliocentric theory of Copernicus - On the nature of scientific theory - Kepler's laws - Galileo's contribution to astronomy - The theory of universal gravitation - Some consequences of Newton's work - 4. On structure and method in physical science : On the nature of concepts - On the duality and growth of science - On scientific discovery - 5. The conservation principles : The principle of conservation of mass - The principle of conservation of momentum - The principle of conservation of energy in mechanics - Heat phenomena and the caloric theory - Extension of the principle of conservation of energy - 6. Origins of the atomic theory in physics and chemistry : Gases and the structure of matter - Dalton's atomic theory of chemistry - The rise of modern chemistry - The periodic system of the elements - The kinetic theory of matter and heat - 7. Theories of fields in electricity and magnetism : The quantification of electrical science - Further developments in electrostatics - Electrochemistry and electromagnetism - The electromagnetic theory of light - 8. The quantum physics of light and matter : Some optical principles - Continuous spectra, birth of the quantum theory - The photoelectric effect, Einstein's photon theory - Spectra of gases - The atomic model of Rutherford and Bohr - Further successes of Bohr's theory of atomic structures - 9. The nucleus : Radioactivity - Isotopes - Nuclear structure and nuclear energy - Further developments of nuclear physics - Appendices and index editor's binding is clean and unmarked, very small spot on the front part, no dust-jacket, inside is clean, a small bookseller stamp on the first page (it' s not an ex-library copy), the top right corner of the end-paper (first page) had been cut off, without missing of text, text is clean, very few red annotations on less than 10 pages, the text remains always readable, mainly underlining with a rule, it's still a very good reading copy of this master work from Bernal and Roller‎