Physics. Volume 1

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Contents
Introduction
	1.1 Why Study Physics?
	1.2 Talking Physics
	1.3 The Use of Mathematics
	1.4 Scientific Notation and Significant Figures
	1.5 Units
	1.6 Dimensional Analysis
	1.7 Problem-Solving Techniques
	1.8 Approximation
	1.9 Graphs
PART ONE Mechanics Chapter
	2 Motion Along a Line
		2.1 Position and Displacement
		2.2 Velocity: Rate of Change of Position
		2.3 Acceleration: Rate of Change of Velocity
		2.4 Motion Along a Line with Constant Acceleration
		2.5 Visualizing Motion Along a Line with Constant Acceleration
		2.6 Free Fall
	Chapter 3 Motion in a Plane
		3.1 Graphical Addition and Subtraction of Vectors
		3.2 Vector Addition and Subtraction Using Components
		3.3 Velocity
		3.4 Acceleration
		3.5 Motion in a Plane with Constant Acceleration
		3.6 Velocity Is Relative; Reference Frames
	Chapter 4 Force and Newton’s Laws of Motion
		4.1 Force
		4.2 Inertia and Equilibrium: Newton’s First Law of Motion
		4.3 Net Force, Mass, and Acceleration: Newtons’s Second Law of Motion
		4.4 Interaction Pairs: Newton’s Third Law of Motion
		4.5 Gravitational Forces
		4.6 Contact Forces
		4.7 Tension
		4.8 Applying Newton’s Second Law
		4.9 Reference Frames
		4.10 Apparent Weight
		4.11 Air Resistance
		4.12 Fundamental Forces
	Chapter 5 Circular Motion
		5.1 Description of Uniform Circular Motion
		5.2 Radial Acceleration
		5.3 Unbanked and Banked Curves
		5.4 Circular Orbits of Satellites and Planets
		5.5 Nonuniform Circular Motion
		5.6 Tangential and Angular Acceleration
		5.7 Apparent Weight and Artificial Gravity
		Review & Synthesis: Chapters 1–5
	Chapter 6 Conservation of Energy
		6.1 The Law of Conservation of Energy
		6.2 Work Done by a Constant Force
		6.3 Kinetic Energy
		6.4 Gravitational Potential Energy (1)
		6.5 Gravitational Potential Energy (2)
		6.6 Work Done by Variable Forces: Hooke’s Law
		6.7 Elastic Potential Energy
		6.8 Power
	Chapter 7 Linear Momentum
		7.1 Conservation Law for a Vector Quantity
		7.2 Momentum
		7.3 The Impulse-Momentum Theorem
		7.4 Conservation of Momentum
		7.5 Center of Mass
		7.6 Motion of the Center of Mass
		7.7 Collisions in One Dimension
		7.8 Collisions in Two Dimensions
	Chapter 8 Torque and Angular Momentum
		8.1 Rotational Kinetic Energy and Rotational Inertia
		8.2 Torque
		8.3 Calculating Work Done from a Torque
		8.4 Rotational Equilibrium
		8.5 Equilibrium in the Human Body
		8.6 Rotational Form of Newton’s Second Law
		8.7 The Motion of Rolling Objects
		8.8 Angular Momentum
		8.9 The Vector Nature of Angular Momentum
		Review & Synthesis: Chapters 6–8
	Chapter 9 Fluids
		9.1 States of Matter
		9.2 Pressure
		9.3 Pascal’s Principle
		9.4 The Effect of Gravity on Fluid Pressure
		9.5 Measuring Pressure
		9.6 The Buoyant Force
		9.7 Fluid Flow
		9.8 Bernoulli’s Equation
		9.9 Viscosity
		9.10 Viscous Drag
		9.11 Surface Tension
	Chapter 10 Elasticity and Oscillations
		10.1 Elastic Deformations of Solids
		10.2 Hooke’s Law for Tensile and Compressive Forces
		10.3 Beyond Hooke’s Law
		10.4 Shear and Volume Deformations
		10.5 Simple Harmonic Motion
		10.6 The Period and Frequency for SHM
		10.7 Graphical Analysis of SHM
		10.8 The Pendulum
		10.9 Damped Oscillations
		10.10 Forced Oscillations and Resonance
	Chapter 11 Waves
		11.1 Waves and Energy Transport
		11.2 Transverse and Longitudinal Waves
		11.3 Speed of Transverse Waves on a String
		11.4 Periodic Waves
		11.5 Mathematical Description of a Wave
		11.6 Graphing Waves
		11.7 Principle of Superposition
		11.8 Reflection and Refraction
		11.9 Interference and Diffraction
		11.10 Standing Waves
	Chapter 12 Sound
		12.1 Sound Waves
		12.2 The Speed of Sound Waves
		12.3 Amplitude and Intensity of Sound Waves
		12.4 Standing Sound Waves
		12.5 Timbre
		12.6 The Human Ear
		12.7 Beats
		12.8 The Doppler Effect
		12.9 Echolocation and Medical Imaging
		Review & Synthesis: Chapters 9–12
PART TWO Thermal Physics
	Chapter 13 Temperature and the Ideal Gas
		13.1 Temperature and Thermal Equilibrium
		13.2 Temperature Scales
		13.3 Thermal Expansion of Solids and Liquids
		13.4 Molecular Picture of a Gas
		13.5 Absolute Temperature and the Ideal Gas Law
		13.6 Kinetic Theory of the Ideal Gas
		13.7 Temperature and Reaction Rates
		13.8 Diffusion
	Chapter 14 Heat
		14.1 Internal Energy
		14.2 Heat
		14.3 Heat Capacity and Specific Heat
		14.4 Specific Heat of Ideal Gases
		14.5 Phase Transitions
		14.6 Thermal Conduction
		14.7 Thermal Convection
		14.8 Thermal Radiation
	Chapter 15 Thermodynamics
		15.1 The First Law of Thermodynamics
		15.2 Thermodynamic Processes
		15.3 Thermodynamic Processes for an Ideal Gas
		15.4 Reversible and Irreversible Processes
		15.5 Heat Engines
		15.6 Refrigerators and Heat Pumps
		15.7 Reversible Engines and Heat Pumps
		15.8 Entropy
		15.9 The Third Law of Thermodynamics
		Review & Synthesis: Chapters 13–15
Appendix A Mathematics Review
Appendix B Table of Selected Nuclides
Answers to Selected Questions and Problems
Credits
Index