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Understanding Physics, 1st Edition
Understanding Physics, 1st Edition
Karen Cummings, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Southern Connecticut State Univ.
Priscilla W. Laws, Dickinson College
Edward F. Redish, Univ. of Maryland
Patrick J. Cooney, Millersville Univ.
ISBN: 978-0-471-37099-4
©2004
1224 pages
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Table of Contents

Part One

Introduction

  1. Measurement
  2. Motion Along a Straight Line
  3. Forces and Motion Along a Line
  4. Vectors
  5. Forces and Motion in Two Dimensions
  6. Combined Forces
  7. Translational Momentum
  8. Extended Systems
  9. Kinetic Energy and Work
  10. Potential Energy and the Conservation of Energy
  11. Rotation
  12. Complex Rotations

Part Two

  1. Equilibrium and Elasticity
  2. Gravitation
  3. Fluids
  4. Oscillations
  5. Waves-I
  6. Waves-II
  7. Temperature, Heat Energy, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
  8. The Kinetic Theory of Gases
  9. Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Part Three

  1. Electricity
  2. Electric Fields
  3. Gauss' Law
  4. Electric Potential
  5. Current and Resistance
  6. Circuits
  7. Capacitors
  8. Magnetic Fields
  9. Magnetic Fields Due to Currents
  10. Induction and Inductance
  11. Magnetism of Matter: Maxwell's Equations
  12. Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current

Part Four

  1. Electromagnetic Waves
  2. Images
  3. Interference
  4. Diffraction
  5. Special Relativity
 

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