Physics
ISBN: 9780077270674 | 0077270673
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Pub. Date: 1/7/2009
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Physics2nd edition is an alternate version of theCollege Physics3rd edition text by Giambattista/Richardson/Richardson. The key difference is thatPhysicscovers kinematics and forces in the more traditional organization of beginning with Kinematics and proceeding to forces. (College Physicstakes an integrated approach to forces and kinematics, introducing forces and interweaving kinematics.).
| Introduction | |
| Why study physics? | |
| Talking physics | |
| The use of mathematics | |
| Scientific notation and significant figures | |
| Units | |
| Dimensional analysis | |
| Problem-solving techniques | |
| Approximation | |
| Graphs | |
| Mechanics | |
| Motion Along a Line | |
| Und... MORE | |
| Position and displacement | |
| Velocity: rate of change of position | |
| Acceleration: rate of change of velocity | |
| Motion along a line with a constant acceleration | |
| Visualizing motion along a line with a constant acceleration | |
| Free fall | |
| Motion in a Plane | |
| Graphical addition and subtraction of vectors | |
| Vector addition and subtraction using components | |
| Velocity | |
| Acceleration | |
| Motion in a plane with constant acceleration | |
| Velocity is relative; reference frames | |
| Force and Newton’s Laws of Motion | |
| Force | |
| Inertia and equilibrium: Newton’s first law of motion | |
| Net force, mass, and acceleration: Newton’s second law of motion | |
| Interaction pairs: Newton’s third law of motion | |
| Gravitational forces | |
| Contact forces | |
| Tension | |
| Applying Newton’s second law | |
| Reference frames | |
| Apparent weight | |
| Air resistance | |
| Fundamental forces | |
| Circular Motion | |
| Description of uniform circular motion | |
| Centripetal acceleration | |
| Banked curves | |
| Circular orbits | |
| Nonuniform circular motion | |
| Angular acceleration | |
| Artificial gravity | |
| Conservation of Energy | |
| The law of conservation of energy | |
| Work done by a constant force | |
| Kinetic energy | |
| Gravitational potential energy (1) | |
| Gravitational potential energy (2) | |
| Work done by variable forces: Hooke’s Law | |
| Elastic potential energy | |
| Power | |
| Linear Momentum | |
| A vector conservation law | |
| Momentum | |
| The impulse-momentum theorem | |
| Conservation of momentum | |
| Center of mass | |
| Motion of the center of mass | |
| Collisions in one dimension | |
| Collisions in two dimensions | |
| Torque and Angular Momentum | |
| Rotational kinetic energy and rotational inertia | |
| Torque | |
| Work done by a torque | |
| Equilibrium revisited | |
| Equilibrium in the human body | |
| Rotational form of Newton’s second law | |
| The dynamics of rolling objects | |
| Angular momentum | |
| The vector nature of angular momentum | |
| Fluids | |
| States of matter | |
| Pressure | |
| Pascal''s principle | |
| The effect of gravity on fluid pressure | |
| Measuring pressure | |
| Archimedes'' principle | |
| Fluid flow | |
| Bernoulli''s equation | |
| Viscosity | |
| Viscous drag | |
| Surface tension | |
| Elasticity and Oscillations | |
| Elastic deformations of solids | |
| Hooke''s law for tensile and compressive forces | |
| Beyond Hooke''s law | |
| Shear and volume deformations | |
| Simple harmonic motion | |
| The period and frequency for SHM | |
| Graphical analysis of SHM | |
| The pendulum | |
| Damped oscillations | |
| Forced oscillations and resonance | |
| Waves | |
| Waves and energy transport | |
| Transverse and longitudinal waves | |
| Speed of transverse waves on a string | |
| Periodic waves | |
| Mathematical description of a wave | |
| Graphing waves | |
| Principle of superposition | |
| Reflection and refraction | |
| Interference and diffraction | |
| Standing waves | |
| Sound | |
| Sound waves | |
| The speed of sound waves | |
| Amplitude and intensity of sound waves | |
| Standing sound waves | |
| The human ear | |
| Timbre | |
| Beats | |
| The Doppler effect | |
| Shock waves | |
| Echolocation and medical imaging | |
| Thermal Physics | |
| Temperature and the Ideal Gas | |
| Temperature | |
| Temperature scales | |
| Thermal expansion of solids and liquids | |
| Molecular picture of a gas | |
| Absolute temperature and the ideal gas law | |
| Kinetic theory of the ideal gas | |
| Temperature and reaction rates | |
| Collisions between gas molecules | |
| Heat | |
| Internal energy | |
| Heat | |
| Heat capacity and specific heat | |
| Specific heat of ideal gases | |
| Phase transitions | |
| Conduction | |
| Convection | |
| Radiation | |
| Thermodynamics | |
| The first law of thermodynamics | |
| Thermodynamic processes | |
| Thermodynamic processes for an ideal gas | |
| Reversible and irreversible processes | |
| Heat engines | |
| Refrigerators and heat pumps | |
| Reversible engines and heat pumps | |
| Details of the Carnot cycle | |
| Entropy | |
| Statistical interpretation of entropy | |
| The third law of thermodynamics | |
| Electromagnetism | |
| Electric Forces and Fields | |
| Electric charge | |
| Conductors and insulators | |
| Coulomb’s law | |
| The electric field | |
| Motion of a point charge in a uniform electric field | |
| Conductors in electrostatic equilibrium | |
| Gauss''s law for electric fields | |
| Electric Potential | |
| Electric potential energy | |
| Electric potential | |
| The relationship between electric field and potential | |
| Conservation of energy for moving charges | |
| Capacitors | |
| Dielectrics | |
| Energy stored in a capacitor | |
| Electric Current and Circuits | |
| Electric current | |
| Emf and circuits | |
| Microscopic view of current in a metal | |
| Resistance and resistivity | |
| Kirchoff’s rules | |
| Series and parallel circuits | |
| Circuit analysis using Kirchoff’s rules | |
| Power and energy in circuits | |
| Measuring currents and voltages | |
| RC circuits | |
| Electrical safety | |
| Magnetic Forces and Fields | |
| Magnetic fields | |
| Magnetic force on a point charge | |
| Charged particle moving perpendicular to a uniform magnetic field | |
| Motion of a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field: general | |
| A charged particle in crossed E and B fields | |
| Magnetic force on a current-carrying wire | |
| Torque on a current loop | |
| Magnetic field due to an electric current | |
| Ampère’s law | |
| Magnetic materials | |
| Electromagnetic Induction | |
| Motional Emf | |
| Electric generators | |
| Faraday''s law | |
| Lenz''s law | |
| Back Emf in a motor | |
| Transformers | |
| Eddy currents | |
| Induced electric fields | |
| Mutual and self-inductance | |
| LR circuits | |
| Alternating Current | |
| Sinusoidal currents and voltages; resistors in AC circuits | |
| Electricity in the home | |
| Capacitors in AC circuits | |
| Inductors in AC circuits | |
| RLC series circuit | |
| Resonance in an RLC circuit | |
| Converting AC to DC; filters | |
| Electromagnetic Waves And Optics | |
| Electromagnetic Waves | |
| Accelerating charges produce electromagnetic waves | |
| Maxwell’s equations | |
| Antennas | |
| The electromagnetic spectrum | |
| Speed of EM waves in vacuum and in matter | |
| Characteristics of electromagnetic waves in vacuum | |
| Energy transport by EM waves | |
| Polarization | |
| The Doppler effect for EM waves | |
| Reflection and Refraction of Light | |
| Wavefronts, rays, and Huygens’ principle | |
| The reflection of light | |
| The refraction of light: Snell’s law | |
| Tota | |
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