Synopses & Reviews
Within this text, the authors explore the main aspects of physical and life sciences and will show how to integrate these scientific principles into everyday life and events. The reader/student will examine such issues as human health, technology, environmental concerns and more.
Synopsis
The fisheries of the Gulf of Mexico make up the largest commercial fishery in the United States. But the ecology of the Gulf is in trouble -- much of the Gulf is subject to critical problems with toxic microorganisms. This important book addresses the emergency, providing indispensable research findings and material on sedimentary processes, nutrient flows, carbon, and trace metal cycling. It provides ecologists and biologists with the first coherent treatment of this vital subject.
Table of Contents
Science: A Way of Knowing.
The Ordered Universe.
Energy.
Heat and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Electricity and Magnetism.
Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation.
The Atom.
Quantum Mechanics.
Atoms in Combination: The Chemical Bond.
Properties of Materials.
The Nucleus of the Atom.
The Ultimate Structure of Matter.
Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity.
The Stars.
Cosmology.
The Earth and Other Planets.
Plate Tectonics.
Cycles of the Earth.
Ecology, Ecosystems, and the Environment.
Strategies of Life.
Molecules of Life.
The Living Cell.
Classical and Modern Genetics.
The New Science of Life.
Evolution.
Appendices.
Glossary.
Credits.
Index.