查尔斯·H·霍尔布朗、詹姆斯·N·劳埃德、约瑟夫·C·阿马托、恩里克·加尔维斯和贝思·帕克斯合著的《现代物理学导论》第二版是一部成功的大学物理导论创新教材。它的主题是强调物理学，它回答了一个基本问题：我们为什么相信原子及其性质？这本书对基本的物理概念进行了很好的介绍，特别关注了作为我们现代原子及其结构思想基础的十九世纪和二十世纪物理学。
在回顾了基本牛顿力学之后，这本书讨论了物质是由原子构成的早期物理证据。用一个简单的原子模型，牛顿力学可以解释理想气体定律、温度和粘度。介绍了电学和磁学的基本概念，以及一个更复杂的原子模型，以解释观察到的原子电学性质。波的物理学——特别是光和x射线——以及相对论的基本特征被探索并用于揭示原子结构的进一步细节。随着放射性、嬗变和原子核的发现，玻尔的氢原子模型为原子观奠定了基础，随着量子力学思想的引入，原子观变得完全现代化。本书根据海森堡测不准原理和费曼量子力学规则提出了这些观点，并讨论了纠缠、非局域性和贝尔不等式等有趣的话题。在这里，就像本书中的每一处一样，我们都非常强调实验和可观察到的现象，这些现象塑造并证实了物理学的概念。
为了帮助学生从高中物理顺利过渡到大学物理，本书培养了定量技能：大量使用了数量级计算、比例论证、比例、近似和其他定量推理的基本工具，从本书早期的简单直接应用发展到后来的更精细的应用。这本书展示了如何从实验数据和定量推理中推断出新物理和新思想。大量的练习和问题有助于学生阐明他们的理解。
《现代物理学导论》第二版是对原有影响力和创新性导论文本的广泛修订。新版包括
-改进了对一些困难话题的阐述
-两个新的章节，在真实实验的背景下探索量子力学的重要和有趣的想法
-许多最新的学生问题
-许多章节都增加了新的问题
Modern Introductory Physics (True PDF)
Modern Introductory Physics, 2nd Edition, by Charles H. Holbrow, James N. Lloyd, Joseph C. Amato, Enrique Galvez, and Beth Parks, is a successful innovative text for teaching introductory college and university physics. It is thematically organized to emphasize the physics that answers the fundamental question: Why do we believe in atoms and their properties? The book provides a sound introduction to basic physical concepts with particular attention to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century physics underlying our modern ideas of atoms and their structure.
After a review of basic Newtonian mechanics, the book discusses early physical evidence that matter is made of atoms. With a simple model of the atom Newtonian mechanics can explain the ideal gas laws, temperature, and viscosity. Basic concepts of electricity and magnetism are introduced along with a more complicated model of the atom to account for the observed electrical properties of atoms. The physics of waves–-particularly light and x-rays–-and basic features of relativity are explored and used to reveal further details of atomic structure. Following the discovery of radioactivity, transmutation, and the atomic nucleus, Bohr’s model of the hydrogen atom sets the stage for a view of the atom that becomes fully modern with the introduction of the ideas of quantum mechanics. This book presents these ideas in terms of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and Feynman’s rules of quantum mechanics and also discusses the intriguing topics of entanglement, non-locality, and Bell’s inequalities. Here, as everywhere in this book, there is strong emphasis on experiments and observable phenomena that have shaped and confirmed the concepts of physics.
To help students make a good transition from high-school physics to university physics, this book fosters quantitative skills: There is much use of order-of-magnitude calculations, scaling arguments, proportionalities, approximations, and other basic tools of quantitative reasoning, progressing from simple and direct applications in the early parts of the book to more elaborate ones later. The book shows how new physics and new ideas are inferred from experimental data and quantitative reasoning. A large number of exercises and problems help students clarify their understanding.
Modern Introductory Physics, 2nd Edition, is an extensive revision of the original influential and innovative introductory text. This new edition includes
– improved exposition of some difficult topics
– two new chapters that explore important and intriguing ideas of quantum mechanics in the context of real experiments
– many updated problems for students
– new questions added to many chapters
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