College Physics: Reasoning and Relationships 2nd edition

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• Chapter Q1: Quick Prep: Keeping It in the Ballpark
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• Chapter Q2: Quick Prep: The Motion of Objects Along a Line
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• Chapter Q3: Quick Prep: Those Special Functions
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• Chapter Q4: Quick Prep: Elements of Approximation and Graphing
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• Chapter Q5: Quick Prep: Probability and Error
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• Chapter Q6: Quick Prep: Return to Lineland
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• Chapter Q7: Quick Prep: Vectors, Displacement, and Velocity
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• Chapter Q8: Quick Prep: Life on a Sphere
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• Chapter Q9: Quick Prep: Force
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• Chapter Q10: Quick Prep: Vector Projections
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• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1.1: The Purpose of Physics
  • 1.2: Problem Solving in Physics: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 1.3: Dealing with Numbers
  • 1.4: Physical Quantities and Units of Measure
  • 1.5: Dimensions and Units
  • 1.6: Algebra and Simultaneous Equations
  • 1.7: Trigonometry
  • 1.8: Vectors
  • 1: Additional Problems
  • 1: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 1: Concept Checks
  • 1: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 2: Motion, Forces, and Newton's Laws
  • 2.1: Aristotle's mechanics
  • 2.2: What is Motion?
  • 2.3: The Principle of Inertia
  • 2.4: Newton's Laws of Motion
  • 2.5: Why Did it Take Newton to Discover Newton's Laws?
  • 2.6: Thinking About the Laws of Nature
  • 2: Additional Problems
  • 2: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 2: Concept Checks
  • 2: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 3: Forces and Motion in One Dimension
  • 3.1: Motion of a Spacecraft in Interstellar Space
  • 3.2: Normal Forces and Weight
  • 3.3: Adding Friction to the Mix
  • 3.4: Free Fall
  • 3.5: Cables, Strings, and Pulleys: Transmitting Forces from Here to There
  • 3.6: Reasoning and Relationships: Finding the Missing Piece
  • 3.7: Parachutes, Air Drag, and Terminal Velocity
  • 3.8: Life as a Bacterium
  • 3: Additional Problems
  • 3: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 3: Concept Checks
  • 3: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 4: Forces and Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
  • 4.1: Statics
  • 4.2: Projectile Motion
  • 4.3: A First Look at Reference Frames and Relative Velocity
  • 4.4: Further Applications of Newton's Laws
  • 4.5: Detecting Acceleration: Reference Frames and the Workings of the Ear
  • 4.6: Projectile Motion Revisited: The Effect of Air Drag
  • 4: Additional Problems
  • 4: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 4: Concept Checks
  • 4: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 5: Circular Motion and Gravitation
  • 5.1: Uniform Circular Motion
  • 5.2: Examples of Circular Motion
  • 5.3: Newton's Law of Gravitation
  • 5.4: Planetary Motion and Kepler's Laws
  • 5.5: Moons and Tides
  • 5.6: Deep Notions Contained in Newton's Law of Gravitation
  • 5: Additional Problems
  • 5: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 5: Concept Checks
  • 5: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 6: Work and Energy
  • 6.1: Force, Displacement, and Work
  • 6.2: Kinetic Energy and the Work–Energy Theorem
  • 6.3: Potential Energy
  • 6.4: More Potential Energy Functions
  • 6.5: Conservative Versus Nonconservative Forces and Conservation of Energy
  • 6.6: The Nature of Nonconservative Forces: What is Friction Anyway?
  • 6.7: Power
  • 6.8: Work, Energy, and Molecular Motors
  • 6: Additional Problems
  • 6: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 6: Concept Checks
  • 6: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 7: Momentum, Impulse, and Collisions
  • 7.1: Momentum
  • 7.2: Force and Impulse
  • 7.3: Conservation of Momentum
  • 7.4: Collisions
  • 7.5: Using Momentum Conservation to Analyze Inelastic Events
  • 7.6: Center of Mass
  • 7.7: A Bouncing Ball and Momentum Conservation
  • 7.8: the Importance of Conservation Principles in Physics
  • 7: Additional Problems
  • 7: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 7: Concept Checks
  • 7: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 8: Rotational Motion
  • 8.1: Describing Rotational Motion
  • 8.2: Torque and Newton's Laws for Rotational Motion
  • 8.3: Rotational Equilibrium
  • 8.4: Moment of Inertia
  • 8.5: Rotational Dynamics
  • 8.6: Combined Rotational and translational Motion
  • 8: Additional Problems
  • 8: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 8: Concept Checks
  • 8: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 9: Energy and Momentum of Rotational Motion
  • 9.1: Kinetic Energy of Rotation
  • 9.2: Conservation of Energy and Rotational Motion
  • 9.3: Angular Momentum
  • 9.4: Angular Momentum and Kepler's Second Law of Planetary Motion
  • 9.5: The Vector Nature of Rotational Motion: Gyroscopes
  • 9.6: Cats and Other Rotating Objects
  • 9: Additional Problems
  • 9: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 9: Concept Checks
  • 9: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 10: Fluids
  • 10.1: Pressure and Density
  • 10.2: Fluids and the Effect of Gravity
  • 10.3: Hydraulics and Pascal's Principle
  • 10.4: Buoyancy and Archimedes's Principle
  • 10.5: Fluids in Motion: Continuity and Bernoulli's Equation
  • 10.6: Real Fluids: A Molecular View
  • 10.7: Turbulence
  • 10: Additional Problems
  • 10: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 10: Concept Checks
  • 10: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 11: Harmonic Motion and Elasticity
  • 11.1: General Features of Harmonic Motion
  • 11.2: Examples of Simple Harmonic Motion
  • 11.3: Harmonic Motion and Energy
  • 11.4: Stress, Strain, and Hooke's Law
  • 11.5: Damping and Resonance
  • 11.6: Detecting Small Forces
  • 11: Additional Problems
  • 11: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 11: Concept Checks
  • 11: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 12: Waves
  • 12.1: What is a Wave?
  • 12.2: Describing Waves
  • 12.3: Examples of Waves
  • 12.4: The Geometry of a Wave: Wave Fronts
  • 12.5: Superposition and Interference
  • 12.6: Reflection
  • 12.7: Refraction
  • 12.8: Standing Waves
  • 12.9: Seismic Waves and the Structure of the Earth
  • 12: Additional Problems
  • 12: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 12: Concept Checks
  • 12: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 13: Sound
  • 13.1: Sound is a Longitudinal Wave
  • 13.2: Amplitude and Intensity of a Sound Wave
  • 13.3: Standing Sound Waves
  • 13.4: Beats
  • 13.5: Reflection and Scattering of Sound
  • 13.6: The Doppler Effect
  • 13.7: Applications
  • 13: Additional Problems
  • 13: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 13: Concept Checks
  • 13: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 14: Temperature and Heat
  • 14.1: Thermodynamics: Applying Physics to a "System "
  • 14.2: Temperature and Heat
  • 14.3: Thermal Equilibrium and the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
  • 14.4: Phases of Matter and Phase Changes
  • 14.5: Thermal Expansion
  • 14.6: Heat Conduction
  • 14.7: Convection
  • 14.8: Heat and Radiation
  • 14: Additional Problems
  • 14: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 14: Concept Checks
  • 14: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 15: Gases and Kinetic Theory
  • 15.1: Molecular Picture of a Gas
  • 15.2: Ideal Gases: An Experimental Perspective
  • 15.3: Ideal Gases and Newton's Laws
  • 15.4: Kinetic Energy
  • 15.5: Diffusion
  • 15.6: Deep Puzzles in Kinetic Theory
  • 15: Additional Problems
  • 15: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 15: Concept Checks
  • 15: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 16: Thermodynamics
  • 16.1: Thermodynamics is About the Way a System Exchanges Energy with Its Environment
  • 16.2: The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics and the Meaning of Temperature
  • 16.3: The First Law of Thermodynamics and the Conservation of Energy
  • 16.4: Thermodynamic Processes
  • 16.5: Reversible and Irreversible Processes and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • 16.6: Heat Engines and Other Thermodynamic Devices
  • 16.7: Entropy
  • 16.8: The Third Law of Thermodynamics and Absolute Zero
  • 16.9: Thermodynamics and Photosynthesis
  • 16.10: Converting Heat Energy to Mechanical Energy and the Origin of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • 16: Additional Problems
  • 16: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 16: Concept Checks
  • 16: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 17: Electric Forces and Fields
  • 17.1: Evidence for Electric Forces: The Observational Facts
  • 17.2: Electric Forces and Coulomb's Law
  • 17.3: The Electric Field
  • 17.4: Conductors, Insulators, and the Motion of Electric Charge
  • 17.5: Electric Flux and Gauss's Law
  • 17.6: Applications: DNA Fingerprinting
  • 17.7: "Why Is Charge Quantized?" and Other Deep Questions
  • 17: Additional Problems
  • 17: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 17: Concept Checks
  • 17: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 18: Electric Potential
  • 18.1: Electric Potential Energy
  • 18.2: Electric Potential: Voltage
  • 18.3: Equipotential Lines and Surfaces
  • 18.4: Capacitors
  • 18.5: Dielectrics
  • 18.6: Electricity in the Atmosphere
  • 18.7: Biological Examples and Applications
  • 18.8: Electric Potential Energy Revisited: Where Is the Energy?
  • 18: Additional Problems
  • 18: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 18: Concept Checks
  • 18: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 19: Electric Currents and Circuits
  • 19.1: Electric Current: The Flow of Charge
  • 19.2: Batteries
  • 19.3: Current and Voltage in a Resistor Circuit
  • 19.4: DC Circuits: Batteries, Resistors, and Kirchhoff's Rules
  • 19.5: DC Circuits: Adding Capacitors
  • 19.6: Making Electrical Measurements: Ammeters and Voltmeters
  • 19.7: RC Circuits as Filters
  • 19.8: Electric Currents in the Human Body
  • 19.9: Household Circuits
  • 19.10: Temperature Dependence of Resistance and Superconductivity
  • 19: Additional Problems
  • 19: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 19: Concept Checks
  • 19: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 20: Magnetic Fields and Forces
  • 20.1: Sources of Magnetic Fields
  • 20.2: Magnetic Forces Involving Bar Magnets
  • 20.3: Magnetic Force on a Moving Charge
  • 20.4: Magnetic Force on an Electric Current
  • 20.5: Torque on a Current Loop and Magnetic Moments
  • 20.6: Motion of Charged Particles in the Presence of Electric and Magnetic Fields
  • 20.7: Calculating the Magnetic Field: Ampère's Law
  • 20.8: Magnetic Materials: What Goes On Inside?
  • 20.9: The Earth's Magnetic Field
  • 20.10: Applications of Magnetism
  • 20.11: The Puzzle of a Velocity-Dependent Force
  • 20: Additional Problems
  • 20: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 20: Concept Checks
  • 20: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 21: Magnetic Induction
  • 21.1: Why Is It Called Electromagnetism?
  • 21.2: Magnetic Flux and Faraday's Law
  • 21.3: Lenz's Law and Work-Energy Principles
  • 21.4: Inductance
  • 21.5: RL Circuits
  • 21.6: Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field
  • 21.7: Applications
  • 21.8: The Puzzle of Induction from a Distance
  • 21: Additional Problems
  • 21: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 21: Concept Checks
  • 21: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 22: Alternating-Current Circuits and Machines
  • 22.1: Generation of AC Voltages
  • 22.2: Analysis of AC Resistor Circuits
  • 22.3: AC Circuits with Capacitors
  • 22.4: AC Circuits with Inductors
  • 22.5: LC Circuits
  • 22.6: Resonance
  • 22.7: AC Circuits and Impedance
  • 22.8: Frequency-Dependent Behavior of AC Circuits: A Conceptual Recap
  • 22.9: Transformers
  • 22.10: Motors
  • 22.11: What Can AC Circuits Do That DC Circuits Cannot?
  • 22: Additional Problems
  • 22: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 22: Concept Checks
  • 22: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 23: Electromagnetic Waves
  • 23.1: The Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves
  • 23.2: Properties of Electromagnetic Waves
  • 23.3: Electromagnetic Waves Carry Energy and Momentum
  • 23.4: Types of Electromagnetic Radiation: The Electromagnetic Spectrum
  • 23.5: Generation and Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves
  • 23.6: Polarization
  • 23.7: Doppler Effect
  • 23.8: Deep Concepts and Puzzles Connected with Electromagnetic Waves
  • 23: Additional Problems
  • 23: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 23: Concept Checks
  • 23: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 24: Geometrical Optics
  • 24.1: Ray (Geometrical) Optics
  • 24.2: Reflection from a Plane Mirror: The Law of Reflection
  • 24.3: Refraction
  • 24.4: Reflections and Images Produced by Curved Mirrors
  • 24.5: Lenses
  • 24.6: How the Eye Works
  • 24.7: Optics in the Atmosphere
  • 24.8: Aberrations
  • 24: Additional Problems
  • 24: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 24: Concept Checks
  • 24: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 25: Wave Optics
  • 25.1: Coherence and Conditions for Interference
  • 25.2: The Michelson Interferometer
  • 25.3: Thin-Film Interference
  • 25.4: Light through a Single Slit: Qualitative Behavior
  • 25.5: Double-Slit Interference: Young's Experiment
  • 25.6: Single-Slit Diffraction: Interference of Light from a Single Slit
  • 25.7: Diffraction Gratings
  • 25.8: Optical Resolution and the Rayleigh Criterion
  • 25.9: Why Is the Sky Blue?
  • 25.10: The Nature of Light: Wave or Particle?
  • 25: Additional Problems
  • 25: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 25: Concept Checks
  • 25: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 26: Applications of Optics
  • 26.1: Applications of a Single Lens: Contact Lenses, Eyeglasses, and the Magnifying Glass
  • 26.2: Microscopes
  • 26.3: Telescopes
  • 26.4: Cameras
  • 26.5: CDs and DVDs
  • 26.6: Optical Fibers
  • 26.7: Microscopy with Optical Fibers
  • 26: Additional Problems
  • 26: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 26: Concept Checks
  • 26: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 27: Relativity
  • 27.1: Newton's Mechanics and Relativity
  • 27.2: The Postulates of Special Relativity
  • 27.3: Time Dilation
  • 27.4: Simultaneity Is Not Absolute
  • 27.5: Length Contraction
  • 27.6: Addition of Velocities
  • 27.7: Relativistic Momentum
  • 27.8: What Is "Mass"?
  • 27.9: Mass and Energy
  • 27.10: The Equivalence Principle and General Relativity
  • 27.11: Relativity and Electromagnetism
  • 27.12: Why Relativity Is Important
  • 27: Additional Problems
  • 27: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 27: Concept Checks
  • 27: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 28: Quantum Theory
  • 28.1: Particles, Waves, and "Particle-Waves"
  • 28.2: Photons
  • 28.3: Wavelike Properties of Classical Particles
  • 28.4: Electron Spin
  • 28.5: The Meaning of the Wave Function
  • 28.6: Tunneling
  • 28.7: Detection of Photons by the Eye
  • 28.8: The Nature of Quanta: A Few Puzzles
  • 28: Additional Problems
  • 28: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 28: Concept Checks
  • 28: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 29: Atomic Theory
  • 29.1: Structure of the Atom: What's Inside?
  • 29.2: Atomic Spectra
  • 29.3: Bohr's Model of the Atom
  • 29.4: Wave Mechanics and the Hydrogen Atom
  • 29.5: Multielectron Atoms
  • 29.6: Chemical Properties of the Elements and the Periodic Table
  • 29.7: Applications
  • 29.8: Quantum Mechanics and Newton's Mechanics: Some Philosophical Issues
  • 29: Additional Problems
  • 29: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 29: Concept Checks
  • 29: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 30: Nuclear Physics
  • 30.1: Structure of the Nucleus: What's Inside?
  • 30.2: Nuclear Reactions: Spontaneous Decay of a Nucleus
  • 30.3: Stability of the Nucleus: Fission and Fusion
  • 30.4: Biological Effects of Radioactivity
  • 30.5: Applications of Nuclear Physics in Medicine and Other Fields
  • 30.6: Questions about the Nucleus
  • 30: Additional Problems
  • 30: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 30: Concept Checks
  • 30: Active Figures
  
  
• Chapter 31: Physics in the 21st Century
  • 31.1: Cosmic Rays
  • 31.2: Matter and Antimatter
  • 31.3: Quantum Electrodynamics
  • 31.4: Elementary Particle Physics: The Standard Model
  • 31.5: The Fundamental Forces of Nature
  • 31.6: Elementary Particle Physics: Is This the Final Answer?
  • 31.7: Astrophysics and the Universe
  • 31.8: Physics and Interdisciplinary Science
  • 31: Additional Problems
  • 31: Reasoning and Relationships
  • 31: Concept Checks
  • 31: Active Figures