دانلود کتاب Man's physical universe. A survey of physical science for colleges

General education seeks to push forward the development of a goodlife. The educational experience which it provides is rich to the extentthat it deals with the problems of life today.Briefly, this course is designed to bring from the archives of physicalscience the most important facts and generalizations which have anybearing on these problems. I have attempted to survey the phenomenaof the physical universe with particular reference to man's immediateenvironment, to present a knowledge of the vast and only partiallyexplored setting of our civilization, to envisage the great problems of the origin and evolution of the universe and the relation of man to the universe, to review briefly the present status of the nature and distribution of the resources which supply human needs and man's ability to utilize them, and to show how man is gaining control over the forces of nature and harnessing them to do his work.I have attempted to explain the more important principles and therelationships which have been found to aid in an understanding ofthem. Continuity and panoramic completeness have been attemptedby integrating the material both with problems and principles, aswell as by the historical approach. Breadth is striven for, ratherthan depth. I have attempted to present much more than mere"tidbits" of knowledge.