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Galileo, Aristotle, and Inertia
Brief Contents
1 - Measurement
2 - Motion along a Straight Line
3 - Vectors
4 - Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
5 - Force and Motion - I
6 - Force and Motion - II
7 - Kinetic Energy and Work
8 - Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy
9 - Center of Mass and Linear Momentum
10 - Rotation
11 - Rolling. Torque, and Angular Momentum
12 - Equilibrium and Elasticity
13 - Gravitation
14 - Fluids
15 - Oscillations
16 - Waves - I
17 - Waves - II
18 - Temperatures, Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics
19 - The Kinetic Theory of Gases
20 - Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
21 - Electric Charge
22 - Electric Fields
23 - Gauss' Law
24 - Electric Potential
25 - Capacitance
26 - Current and Resistance
27 - Circuits
28 - Magnetic Fields
29 - Magnetic Fields Due to Currents
30 - Induction and Inductance
31 - Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current
32 - Maxwell's Equations; Magnetism of Matter
33 - Electromagnetic Waves
34 - Images
35 - Interference
36 - Diffraction
37 - Relativity
38 - Photons and Matter Waves
39 - More About Matter Waves
40 - All About Atoms
41 - Conduction of Electricity in Solids
42 - Nuclear Physics
43 - Nuclear from the Nucleus
44 - Quarks, Leptons, and the Big Bang
Contents
1 - Measurement
1-1 What is Physics ?
1-1 What is Physics ?
1-2 Measuring Things
1-3 The International System of Units
1-4 Changing Units
1-5 Length
1-6 Time
1-7 Mass
2 - Motion Along a Straight Line
2-1 What is Physics ?
2-2 Motion
2-3 Position and Displacement
2-4 Average Velocity and Average Speed
2-5 Instantaneous Velocity and Speed
2-6 Acceleration
2-7 Constant Acceleration : Speed Case
2-8 Another Look at Constant Acceleration
2-9 Free-Fall Acceleration
2-10 Graphical Integration in Motion Analysis
3 - Vectors
3-1 What is Physics
3-2 Vectors and Scalars
3-3 Adding Vectors Geometrically
3-4 Components of Vectors
3-5 Unit Vectors
3-6 Adding Vector by Components
3-7 Vectors and the Laws of Physics
3-8 Multiplying Vectors
4 - Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
4-1 What is Physics
4-2 Position and Displacement
4-3 Average Velocity and Instantaneous Velocity
4-4 Average Acceleration and Instantaneous Acceleration
4-5 Projectile Motion
4-6 Projectile Motion Analyzed
4-7 Uniform Circular Motion
4-8 Relative Motion in One Dimension
4-9 Relative Motion in Two Motion
5 - Force and Motion - I
5-1 What is Physics ?
5-2 Newtonian Mechanics
5-3 Newton's First Law
5-4 Force
5-5 Mass
5-6 Newton's Second Law
5-7 Some Particular Forces
5-8 Newton's Third Law
5-9 Applying Newton's Laws
6 - Force and Motion - II
6-1 What is Physics ?
6-2 Friction
6-3 Properties of Friction
6-4 The Drag Force and Terminal Speed
6-5 Uniform Circular Motion
7 - Kinetic Energy and Work
7-1 What is Physics ?
7-2 What is Energy ?
7-3 Kinetic Energy
7-4 Work
7-5 Work and Kinetic Energy
7-6 Work Done by Gravitational Force
7-7 Work Done by a Spring Force
7-8 Work Done by a General Variable Force
7-9 Power
8 - Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy
8-1 What is Physics
8-2 Work and Potential Energy
8-3 Path Independence of Conservative Forces
8-4 Determining Potential Energy Values
8-5 Conservation of Mechanical Energy
8-6 Reading a Potential Energy Curve
8-7 Work Done on a System by an External Force
8-8 Conservation of Energy
9 - Center of Mass and Linear Momentum
9-1 What is Physics ?
9-2 The Center of Mass
9-3 Newton's Second Law for a System of Particles
9-4 Linear Momentum
9-5 The Linear Momentum of a System of Particle
9-6 Collision and Impulse
9-7 Conservation of Linear Momentum
9-8 Momentum and Kinetic Energy in Collisions
9-9 Inelastic Collisions in One Dimension
9-10 Elastic Collisions in One Dimension
9-11 Collisions in Two Dimension
9-12 System with Varying Mass : A Rocket
10 - Rotation
10-1 What is Physics ?
10-2 The Rotational Variables
10-3 Are Angular Quantities Vectors ?
10-4 Rotation with Constant Angular Acceleration
10-5 Relating the Linear and Angular Variables
10-6 Kinetic Energy of Rotation
10-7 Calculating the Rotational Inertia
10-8 Torque
10-9 Newton's Second Law for Rotation
10-10 Work and Rotational Kinetic Energy
11 - Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum
11-1 What is Physics ?
11-2 Rolling as Translation and Rotation Combined
11-3 The Kinetic Energy of Rolling
11-4 The Forces of Rolling
11-5 The Yo-Yo
11-6 Torque Revisited
11-7 Angular Momentum
11-8 Newton's Second Law in Angular Form
11-9 The Angular Momentum of s System of Particles
11-10 The Angular Momentum of a Rigid Body Rotation about a Fixed Axis
11-11 Conservation of Angular Momentum
11-12 Precession of a Gyroscope
12 - Equilibrium and Elasticity
13 - Gravitation
14 - Fluids
15 - Oscillations
16 - Waves - I
17 - Waves - II
18 - Temperatures, Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics
19 - The Kinetic Theory of Gases
20 - Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
21 - Electric Charge
22 - Electric Fields
23 - Gauss' Law
24 - Electric Potential
25 - Capacitance
26 - Current and Resistance
27 - Circuits
28 - Magnetic Fields
29 - Magnetic Fields Due to Currents
30 - Induction and Inductance
31 - Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current
32 - Maxwell's Equations; Magnetism of Matter
33 - Electromagnetic Waves
34 - Images
35 - Interference
36 - Diffraction
37 - Relativity
38 - Photons and Matter Waves
39 - More About Matter Waves
40 - All About Atoms
41 - Conduction of Electricity in Solids
42 - Nuclear Physics
43 - Nuclear from the Nucleus
44 - Quarks, Leptons, and the Big Bang
