Understanding the Properties of Matter

Understanding the Properties of Matter: 2nd Edition is an entertaining and innovative textbook that fulfills the needs of undergraduate physics students and teachers alike. Taking a unique phenomenological approach, this book introduces the properties of matter. After an overview of basic ideas and a reminder of the importance of measurement, the author explores gases, solids, liquids, and phase changes. Students benefit from extensive examples and end-of-chapter exercises, and this edition includes an entire chapter of extended exercises. This approach allows both students and teachers to rediscover a fascination for the subjects that have excited some of the greatest physicists of our age.