Energy: Its Use and the Environment
Product Description
What is the impact of energy issues such as lobal warming, radioactive waste, municipal solid waste, and nuclear energy production materials on the individual and society? ENERGY: ITS USE AND THE ENVIRONMENT emphasizes the physical principles behind energy and its effects on our environment, explaining the basic physical principles behind the use of energy, including the study of mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, and atomic and nuclear physics. By placing energy issues within the context of everyday examples and asking you to define and support critical arguments, ENERGY: ITS USE AND THE ENVIRONMENT offers a provocative approach to this crucial issue.
Energy: Its Use and the Environment
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The book was all beat up, but the seller said it would be. It was a ton cheaper than buying it new, though.
Rating: 4 / 5
Energy: Its Use and the Environment
I got the exact book I was looking for. Also, it was shipped quickly which was perfect because I needed it for a class that had already started.
Rating: 5 / 5
Energy: Its Use and the Environment
This pertains to the 4th edition (published 2005). The material is solid and informative, but the photos are all black and white. I find this unacceptable in the twenty first century. Additionally, many of the photos are of very poor quality.
Rating: 3 / 5
Energy: Its Use and the Environment
I’ve been teaching at a community college for 16 years in the field of energy efficiency, Passive solar, building science, healthy homes, sustainability, green issues. I have used this book and its earlier versions in my classes because it gives the best science basis for energy. It is also written by a physics professor as a textbook, with review and questions at the end of each chapter.
This book shows the “systems efficiency” of energy sources, which is the correct way to examine any proposed alternative energy. This is the way many of these topics is presented in other books. I like the book also because it starts at the beginning–physics–in the discussion of energy.
Rating: 5 / 5
Energy: Its Use and the Environment
Energy provides comprehensive information on basic energy principles, electricity, fossil energy resources, nuclear power, renewable energy resources, energy conservation, and the impacts of energy use on the environment. While it contains all the requisite equations and problem sets, the concise, clear coverage of the environmental and policy issues surrounding our energy use really distinguishes this book from other energy texts.
Rating: 4 / 5
Energy: Its Use and the Environment