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The Joy of Physics

by: WIGGINS, ARTHUR W.HARRIS, SIDNEY

The Joy of Physics

by: WIGGINS, ARTHUR W.HARRIS, SIDNEY

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9781616144531
ISBN 10:
161614453X
Edition: Revised
Format: Trade Paper
Copyright: 03/23/2011
Publisher: Prometheus Books

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Physics professor and popular science writer, Wiggins, provides the general reader with a fun-filled, entertaining, and truly educational tour. This new paperback edition includes new material and a study guide useful for teachers and self-learners.

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Foreword	p. 11
Introduction-The Scientific Method	p. 13
Experiments	p. 19
A Word About Calculators	p. 20
Apparatus Needed for All Experiments	p. 21
Identified Flying Objects	p. 22
Updated Cannonballs	p. 24
How Things Move-Position, Velocity, and Acceleration	p. 27
Weight 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie	p. 33
Why Things Move-Forces and Their Effects	p. 35
Dropsy	p. 43
Sources of Forces-The Biggies in Nature	p. 45
Horizontal Globalization	p. 53
Round and Round It Goes, and Where It Stops … Circular Motion	p. 55
Outgoing = Incoming	p. 64
The Ultimate Four-Letter Word-Work	p. 67
Follow the Bouncing Ball	p. 73
Oops! Collisions-Impulse and Linear Momentum	p. 75
You Say You Want a Revolution?	p. 82
Spinning Wheels, Got to Go Round	p. 83
Mo' Yo-Yo	p. 92
Force with a Twist-Torque	p. 95
Teeter-Totter	p. 105
The Strange Case of the Body That Doesn't Move-Static Equilibrium	p. 107
Stretchy Spring	p. 113
Getting Bent Out of Shape-Elasticity	p. 115
Gaze Intently at the Swinging Yo-Yo	p. 119
Incredibly Repetitive	p. 121
Back and Forth, Back and Forth … Simple Harmonic Motion and Waves	p. 123
Magic Spring Tricks	p. 130
Hey, Listen, What's That Sound?	p. 131
Dive, Dive	p. 144
Gooey and Gassy-Fluids at Their Finest	p. 145
Soda Bottle Crush	p. 159
Even Perfection Has Its Flaws-The Ideal Gas	p. 161
Kitchen Physics	p. 170
Some Like It Hot-Thermodynamics	p. 171
Static Cling	p. 190
Charge It-Electricity at Rest	p. 191
Meter Reader	p. 202
Who Let the Charges Out?-Electric Current	p. 207
Resistance Is Futile	p. 218
Silent Struggles in the Wires-Resistance	p. 221
Do-It-Yourself Magnet	p. 227
Approach/Avoidance-Magnetism	p. 229
Battery-less Voltage	p. 240
We Are Family-Electricity from Magnetism	p. 241
All Shook Up	p. 247
Big-Time Electricity-AC	p. 251
LEDs Lead the Way	p. 265
The Light Dawns-Electromagnetic Waves	p. 267
Bent Light	p. 274
Polar Opposites	p. 276
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall-Reflection and Refraction of Light	p. 277
Spreading the Beam	p. 290
Compact Rainbow	p. 292
Light's Strangest Tricks-Diffraction and Interference	p. 293
Einstein's Prodigious Efforts-Special and General Relativity	p. 299
Laser, not Phasor	p. 311
Matter's Innards-Atoms and Quantum Mechanics	p. 313
Half-Life Is Better Than No Life	p. 322
Atoms' Innards-Nuclear Physics	p. 323
Down to the Nitty-Gritty-The Standard Model of the Universe's Smallest Constituents	p. 333
But Wait, There's Even More-The Universe's Biggest Constituents	p. 343
Afterword	p. 353
Study Guide	p. 355
Additional Resources, Notes, and Credits	p. 431
Illustration Credits	p. 441
Index	p. 443
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The Joy of Physics

The Joy of Physics

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161614453X

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