Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'Conceptual Physical Science' takes learning physical science to a new level by combining Hewitt's leading conceptual approach with a friendly writing style, stronger integration of the sciences, more quantitative coverage, and a wealth of media resources to help professors in class, and students out of class.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Prologue: About Science
• Part 1 Physics
• 1 Equilibrium and Linear Motion
• 2 Newton's Laws of Motion
• 3 Momentum and Energy
• 4 Gravity, Projectiles, and Satellites
• 5 Projectile and Satellite Motion
• 6 Temperature, Heat, and Thermodynamics
• 7 Heat Transfer and Change of Phase
• 8 Electrostatics and Electric Current
• 9 Magnetism and Electromagnetic Induction
• 10 Waves and Sound
• 11 Light
• Part 2 Chemistry
• 12 Atoms and the Periodic Table
• 13 The Atomic Nucleus
• 14 Elements of Chemistry
• 15 How Atoms Bond and Molecules Attract
• 16 Mixtures
• 17 How Chemicals React
• 18 Two Types of Chemical Reactions
• 19 Organic Compounds
• Part 3 Earth Science
• 20 Rocks and Minerals
• 21 Geologic Time-Reading the Rock Record
• 22 Plate Tectonics and Earth's Interior
• 23 Shaping Earth's Surface
• 24 The Oceans, Atmosphere, and Climatic Effects
• 25 Driving Forces of Weather
• Part 4 Astronomy
• 26 The Solar System
• 27 The Stars
• 28 Cosmology