Science and society [electronic resource] : understanding scientific methodology, energy, climate, and sustainability / Eric S. Swanson.
Swanson, Eric Scott, author.
2015
Q162
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access
Concurrent users Unlimited
Authorized users Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Details

Title Science and society [electronic resource] : understanding scientific methodology, energy, climate, and sustainability / Eric S. Swanson.
Author Swanson, Eric Scott, author.
ISBN 9783319219875 (electronic book)
3319219871 (electronic book)
9783319219868
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21987-5
Published Cham : Springer, [2015]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxix, 276 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-21987-5 doi
9783319219868
Call Number Q162
Dewey Decimal Classification 500
Summary This undergraduate textbook educates non-science majors--our future policy makers--on how science works, the rules that underpin our existence, our impact on nature, and nature's impact on us. The book provides a concise, historically based, non-mathematical treatment of modern physics relevant to societal issues. It challenges readers to examine the problems we face (and their own beliefs) in light of the scientific method. With a narrative structure, Science and Society explains the scientific process and the power it brings to dealing with the natural world. The reader will gain a deeper understanding of scientific results reported by the media, and thus the tools to develop a rational, fact-based assessment of energy and resource policy. Praise for Science and Society: "Anyone who thinks society can be managed without science should think again, or better: read this book. Eric Swanson explains how science permeates society, and with simple examples of the scientific process he shows its special power in dealing with the natural world. This is a must read for the world's seven billion scientists." F.E. Close, OBE, Oxford University, author of, among others, "Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy", "The Infinity Puzzle", and "Neutrino."
Note Includes index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 28, 2015).
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
What is Science?
Modes of Logic
Modelling and Occam's Razor
Theory, Model, and Law
Defining Science
Progress and Change in Science
Answerable and Unanswerable in Science
Why Does Science Exist?
Doing Science
The Beginnings of Science
Studies
Study Design
Statistics and Studies
Improving Study Reliability
Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience and Society
Bad Science, Bad Scientists
Case Studies
Deconstructing Pseudoscience
Energy and Entropy
Definitions and Units
Entropy
Energy, Entropy, and Life
Energy Flow in Society
The Arrow of Time
Electricity, Magnetism, and Light
Magnetism and Force
Electricity
Faraday and Fields
Maxwell and Light
Vision and Light
Measuring Light
Spectral Lines
Atom and Light
The Electron
Rutherford's Atom
Blackbody Radiation
The Photoelectric Effect
Bohr's Atom
The Quantum Atom
Nuclear and Atomic Scales
The Interaction of Light and Matter
Climate
Fossil Fuels
Greenhouse Gases
Energy Flow in the Environment
Climate Modelling
Implications of Climate Change
Nuclear Energy and Radiation
Into the Atom
Nuclear Decay
Nuclear Transmutation
Health Effects of Radioactivity
The Bomb
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Disasters
Other Uses of Radioactivity
Why Stars Shine
A Finite Planet
Population Growth
Economic Growth
Resource Management
Beyond Carbon
Electric Transport
Outlook
Space Travel
Looking Out.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export