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Applied Physics
ISBN: 9780131101692 | 0131101692
Edition: 9thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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This highly successful introduction to basic physics provides a solid foundation applied to industrial and technical fields and incorporates: real-world applications to motivate students clear, to-the-point topic coverage extensive drawings, diagrams, photographs, and examples to make the physics real large problem sets at the end of each section to provide for student practice Superb organization divides content into five logical units: mechanics matter and heat wave motion and sound electricity and magnetism light and modern physics A special... MORE
| An Introduction to Physics | |
| Why Study Physics? Physics and its Role in Technology | |
| Physics and its Connections to other Fields and Sciences | |
| Theories, Laws, and the Problem-Solving Method | |
| The Physics Tool Kit | |
| Standards of Measure | |
| Introduction to the Metric System | |
| Length | |
| Area and Volume | |
| Other Units | ... MORE |
| Measurement: Significant Digits and Accuracy | |
| Measurement: Precision | |
| Calculations with Measurements | |
| Problem-Solving Method | |
| Vectors | |
| Vectors and Scalars | |
| Components of a Vector | |
| Vectors in Standard Position | |
| Motion | |
| Speed vs. Velocity | |
| Acceleration | |
| Uniformly Accelerated Motion and Free Fall | |
| Projectile Motion | |
| Force | |
| Force and the Law of Inertia | |
| Force and the Law of Acceleration | |
| Friction | |
| Forces in One Dimension | |
| Gravity and Weight | |
| Law of Action and Reaction | |
| Momentum | |
| Impulse and Momentum | |
| Collisions | |
| Concurrent and Parallel Forces | |
| Forces in Two Dimensions | |
| Concurrent Forces in Equilibrium | |
| Torque | |
| Parallel Force Problems | |
| Center of Gravity | |
| Work and Energy | |
| Work | |
| Power | |
| Energy | |
| Conservation of Mechanical Energy | |
| Rotational Motion | |
| Measurement of Rotational Motion | |
| Angular Momentum | |
| Centripetal Force | |
| Power in Rotational Systems | |
| Transferring Rotational Motion | |
| Gears | |
| Pulleys Connected with a Belt | |
| Simple Machines | |
| Machines and Energy Transfer | |
| The Lever | |
| The Wheel-and-Axle | |
| The Pulley | |
| The Inclined Plane | |
| The Screw | |
| The Wedge | |
| Compound Machines | |
| The Effect of Friction on Simple Machines | |
| Universal Gravitation and Satellite Motion | |
| Universal Gravitation | |
| Gravitational Fields | |
| Satellite Motion | |
| Matter | |
| Properties of Matter | |
| Properties of Solids | |
| Properties of Liquids | |
| Properties of Gases | |
| Density | |
| Fluids | |
| Hydrostatic Pressure | |
| Hydraulic Principle | |
| Air Pressure | |
| Buoyancy | |
| Fluid Flow | |
| Temperature and Heat Transfer | |
| Temperature | |
| Heat | |
| Heat Transfer | |
| Specific Heat | |
| Method of Mixtures | |
| Expansion of Solids | |
| Expansion of Liquids | |
| Change of Phase | |
| Properties of Gases | |
| Charles' Law | |
| Boyle's Law | |
| Charles' and Boyle's Laws Combined | |
| Wave Motion and Sound | |
| Characteristics of Waves | |
| Electromagnetic Waves | |
| Sound Waves | |
| The Doppler Effect | |
| Resonance | |
| Simple Harmonic Motion | |
| Basic Electricity | |
| Electrical Charges | |
| Induction | |
| Coulomb' | |
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