Conceptual Integrated Science
About this book
From the author of the number one textbooks in physical science and liberal-arts physics comes the eagerly awaited new text, Conceptual Integrated Science . Hewitt’s critically acclaimed conceptual approach has led science education for 30 years and now tackles integrated science to take student learning to a new level. Using his proven conceptual approach, accessible writing, and fun and informative illustrations, Hewitt and his team of science experts have crafted a text that focuses on the unifying concepts and real-life examples across physics, chemistry, earth science, biology, and astronomy. About Science, Describing Motion, Newton’s Laws of Motion, Energy and Momentum, Gravity, Heat, Electricity and Magnetism, Waves–Sound and Light, The Atom, Nuclear Physics, Investigating Matter, Combining Atoms, Chemical Reactions, Organic Chemistry, The Basic Unit of Life–The Cell, Genetics, The Evolution of Life, Biological Diversity, Human Biology I, Human Biology II, Ecosystems and Environment, Plate Tectonics, Rocks and Minerals, Earth’s Surfaces and Processes, Earth’s Waters and Weather, A Brief History of the Earth, The Solar System, The Universe. For all readers interested in science.