Contemporary college physics
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Contemporary college physics
McGraw-Hill, c2001
3rd ed. 2001 update
- hard
- pbk
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Description
This text is aimed at students and includes the basic foundation material, incorporating the topics: measurements and models; force and motion; work and energy; momentum; fluids; thermal physics; gas laws and kinetic theory; thermodynamics; magnetism; relativity; and quantum theory.
Table of Contents
- Measurements and models
- motion in one dimension
- motion in two dimensions
- force and motion
- uniform circular motion
- work and energy
- momentum
- applying the conservation laws
- rigid bodies and rotational motion
- fluids
- thermal physics
- gas laws and kinetic theory
- thermodynamics
- periodic motion
- waves and sound
- 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
- discovery of atomic structure
- origins of the quantum theory
- quantum mechanics
- the nucleus
- lasers and holography
- condensed matter
- elementary particle physics, A formulas from algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, B the international system of units, C alphabetical list of elements, D Answers to odd numbered problems.
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