Contemporary college physics

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Contemporary college physics

Edwin R. Jones and Richard L. Childers

Addison-Wesley, 1992

2nd ed

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Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This edition of the text places greater emphasis on problem solving in physics through visualization techniques.

Table of Contents

  • Measurement and analysis
  • motion in one dimension
  • motion in two dimensions
  • force and motion
  • uniform circular motion and gravitation
  • work and energy
  • linear momentum
  • combining conservation of energy and momentum
  • rigid bodies and rotational motion
  • fluids
  • thermal physics
  • gas laws and kinetic theory
  • thermodynamics
  • periodic motion
  • wave motion
  • electric charge and electric field
  • electric potential and capacitance
  • electric current and resistance
  • magnetism
  • electromagnetic induction
  • alternating-current circuits
  • geometrical optics
  • optical instruments
  • wave optics
  • relativity
  • the discovery of atomic structure
  • origins of the quantum theory
  • quantum mechanics
  • the nucleus
  • lasers, holography, and colour
  • condensed matter
  • elementary particle physics.

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  • NCID
    BA28783010
  • ISBN
    • 0201557215
  • LCCN
    92026814
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Reading, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 941 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
  • Classification
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