Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Foundations and Connections, 2017 WebAssign Update 1st edition

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Debora M. Katz
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  • Chapter 1: Getting Started
    • 1.1: Physics
    • 1.2: How Are Laws of Physics Found?
    • 1.3: A Guide to Learning Physics
    • 1.4: Solving Problems in Physics
    • 1.5: Systems of Units
    • 1.6: Dimensional Analysis
    • 1.7: Error and Significant Figures
    • 1.8: Order-of-Magnitude Estimates
    • 1: General Problems
    • 1: PreLecture Explorations
    • 1: Integrated Tutorials
    • 1: Reading Comprehension
    • 1: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 1: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 2: One-Dimensional Motion
    • 2.1: What Is One-Dimensional Translational Kinematics?
    • 2.2: Motion Diagrams
    • 2.3: Coordinate Systems and Position
    • 2.4: Position-Versus-Time Graphs
    • 2.5: Displacement and Distance Traveled
    • 2.6: Average Velocity and Speed
    • 2.7: Instantaneous Velocity and Speed
    • 2.8: Average and Instantaneous Acceleration
    • 2.9: Special Case: Constant Acceleration
    • 2.10: A Special Case of Constant Acceleration: Free Fall
    • 2: General Problems
    • 2: PreLecture Explorations
    • 2: Integrated Tutorials
    • 2: Reading Comprehension
    • 2: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 2: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 3: Vectors
    • 3.1: Geometric Treatment of Vectors
    • 3.2: Cartesian Coordinate Systems
    • 3.3: Components of a Vector
    • 3.4: Combining Vectors by Components
    • 3: General Problems
    • 3: PreLecture Explorations
    • 3: Integrated Tutorials
    • 3: Reading Comprehension
    • 3: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 3: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 4: Two- and Three-Dimensional Motion
    • 4.1: What Is Multidimensional Motion?
    • 4.2: Motion Diagrams for Multidimensional Motion
    • 4.3: Position and Displacement
    • 4.4: Velocity and Acceleration
    • 4.5: Special Case of Projectile Motion
    • 4.6: Special Case of Uniform Circular Motion
    • 4.7: Relative Motion in One Dimension
    • 4.8: Relative Motion in Two Dimensions
    • 4: General Problems
    • 4: PreLecture Explorations
    • 4: Integrated Tutorials
    • 4: Reading Comprehension
    • 4: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 4: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 5: Newton's Law of Motion
    • 5.1: Our Experience With Dynamics
    • 5.2: Newton's First Law
    • 5.3: Force
    • 5.4: Inertial Mass
    • 5.5: Inertial Reference Frames
    • 5.6: Newton's Second Law
    • 5.7: Some Specific Forces
    • 5.8: Free-Body Diagrams
    • 5.9: Newton's Third Law
    • 5.10: Fundamental Forces
    • 5: General Problems
    • 5: PreLecture Explorations
    • 5: Integrated Tutorials
    • 5: Reading Comprehension
    • 5: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 5: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 6: Applications of Newton's Law of Motion
    • 6.1: Newton's Laws in a Messy World
    • 6.2: Friction and the Normal Force Revisited
    • 6.3: A Model for Static Friction
    • 6.4: Kinetic and Rolling Friction
    • 6.5: Drag and Terminal Speed
    • 6.6: Centripetal Force
    • 6: General Problems
    • 6: PreLecture Explorations
    • 6: Integrated Tutorials
    • 6: Reading Comprehension
    • 6: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 6: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 7: Gravity
    • 7.1: A Knowable Universe
    • 7.2: Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
    • 7.3: Newton's Law of Universal Gravity
    • 7.4: The Gravitational Field
    • 7.5: Variations in the Earth's Gravitational Field
    • 7: General Problems
    • 7: PreLecture Explorations
    • 7: Integrated Tutorials
    • 7: Reading Comprehension
    • 7: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 7: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 8: Conservation of Energy
    • 8.1: Another Approach to Newtonian Mechanics
    • 8.2: Energy
    • 8.3: Gravitational Potential Energy Near the Earth
    • 8.4: Universal Gravitational Potential Energy
    • 8.5: Elastic Potential Energy
    • 8.6: Conservation of Mechanical Energy
    • 8.7: Applying the Conservation of Mechanical Energy
    • 8.8: Energy Graphs
    • 8.9: Special Case: Orbital Energies
    • 8: General Problems
    • 8: PreLecture Explorations
    • 8: Integrated Tutorials
    • 8: Reading Comprehension
    • 8: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 8: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 9: Energy in Nonisolated Systems
    • 9.1: Energy Transfer to and from the Environment
    • 9.2: Work Done by a Constant Force
    • 9.3: Dot Product
    • 9.4: Work Done by a Nonconstant Force
    • 9.5: Conservative and Nonconservative Forces
    • 9.6: Particles, Objects, and Systems
    • 9.7: Thermal Energy
    • 9.8: Work-Energy Theorem
    • 9.9: Power
    • 9: General Problems
    • 9: PreLecture Explorations
    • 9: Integrated Tutorials
    • 9: Reading Comprehension
    • 9: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 9: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 10: Systems of Particles and Conservation of Momentum
    • 10.1: A Second Conservation Principle
    • 10.2: Momentum of a Particle
    • 10.3: Center of Mass Revisited
    • 10.4: Systems of Particles
    • 10.5: Conservation of Momentum
    • 10.6: Case Study: Rockets
    • 10.7: Rocket Thrust: An Open System (Optional)
    • 10: General Problems
    • 10: PreLecture Explorations
    • 10: Integrated Tutorials
    • 10: Reading Comprehension
    • 10: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 10: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 11: Collisions
    • 11.1: What is a Collision?
    • 11.2: Impulse
    • 11.3: Conservation During a Collision
    • 11.4: Special Case: One-Dimensional Inelastic Collisions
    • 11.5: One-Dimensional Elastic Collisions
    • 11.6: Two-Dimensional Collisions
    • 11: General Problems
    • 11: PreLecture Explorations
    • 11: Integrated Tutorials
    • 11: Reading Comprehension
    • 11: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 11: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 12: Rotation I: Kinematics and Dynamics
    • 12.1: Rotation Versus Translation
    • 12.2: Rotational Kinematics
    • 12.3: Special Case of Constant Angular Acceleration
    • 12.4: The Connection Between Rotation and Circular Motion
    • 12.5: Torque
    • 12.6: Cross Product
    • 12.7: Rotational Dynamics
    • 12: General Problems
    • 12: PreLecture Explorations
    • 12: Integrated Tutorials
    • 12: Reading Comprehension
    • 12: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 12: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 13: Rotation II: A Conservation Approach
    • 13.1: Conservation Approach
    • 13.2: Rotational Inertia
    • 13.3: Rotational Kinetic Energy
    • 13.4: Special Case of Rolling Motion
    • 13.5: Work and Power
    • 13.6: Angular Momentum
    • 13.7: Conservation of Angular Momentum
    • 13: General Problems
    • 13: PreLectureExplorations
    • 13: Integrated Tutorials
    • 13: Reading Comprehension
    • 13: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 13: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 14: Static Equilibrium, Elasticity, and Fracture
    • 14.1: What is Static Equilibrium?
    • 14.2: Conditions for Equilibrium
    • 14.3: Examples of Static Equilibrium
    • 14.4: Elasticity and Fracture
    • 14: General Problems
    • 14: PreLecture Explorations
    • 14: Integrated Tutorials
    • 14: Reading Comprehension
    • 14: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 14: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 15: Fluids
    • 15.1: What Is a Fluid?
    • 15.2: Static Fluid on the Earth
    • 15.3: Pressure
    • 15.4: Archimedes's Principle
    • 15.5: Measuring Pressure
    • 15.6: Ideal Fluid Flow
    • 15.7: The Continuity Equation
    • 15.8: Bernoulli's Equation
    • 15: General Problems
    • 15: PreLecture Explorations
    • 15: Integrated Tutorials
    • 15: Reading Comprehension
    • 15: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 15: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 16: Oscillations
    • 16.1: Picturing Harmonic Motion
    • 16.2: Kinematic Equations of Simple Harmonic Motion
    • 16.3: Connection With Circular Motion
    • 16.4: Dynamics of Simple Harmonic Motion
    • 16.5: Special Case: Object-Spring Oscillator
    • 16.6: Special Case: Simple Pendulum
    • 16.7: Special Case: Physical Pendulum
    • 16.8: Special Case: Torsion Pendulum
    • 16.9: Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
    • 16.10: Damped Harmonic Motion
    • 16.11: Driven Oscillators
    • 16: General Problems
    • 16: PreLecture Explorations
    • 16: Integrated Tutorials
    • 16: Reading Comprehension
    • 16: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 16: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 17: Traveling Waves
    • 17.1: Introducing Mechanical Waves
    • 17.2: Pulses
    • 17.3: Harmonic Waves
    • 17.4: Special Case: Transverse Wave on a Rope
    • 17.5: Sound: Special Case of a Traveling Longitudinal Wave
    • 17.6: Energy Transport in Waves
    • 17.7: Two- and Three-Dimensional Waves
    • 17.8: Refraction and Diffraction
    • 17.9: The Doppler Shift
    • 17.10: The Wave Equation
    • 17: General Problems
    • 17: PreLecture Explorations
    • 17: Integrated Tutorials
    • 17: Reading Comprehension
    • 17: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 17: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 18: Superposition and Standing Waves
    • 18.1: Superposition
    • 18.2: Reflection
    • 18.3: Interference
    • 18.4: Standing Waves
    • 18.5: Guitar: Resonance on a String Fixed at Both Ends
    • 18.6: Flute: Resonance in a Tube Open at Both Ends
    • 18.7: Clarinet: Resonance in a Tube Closed at One End and Open at the Other End
    • 18.8: Beats
    • 18.9: Fourier's Theorem
    • 18: General Problems
    • 18: PreLecture Explorations
    • 18: Integrated Tutorials
    • 18: Reading Comprehension
    • 18: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 18: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 19: Temperature, Thermal Expansion, and Gas Laws
    • 19.1: Thermodynamics and Temperature
    • 19.2: Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
    • 19.3: Thermal Expansion
    • 19.4: Thermal Stress
    • 19.5: Gas Laws
    • 19.6: Ideal Gas Law
    • 19.7: Temperature Standards
    • 19: General Problems
    • 19: PreLecture Explorations
    • 19: Integrated Tutorials
    • 19: Reading Comprehension
    • 19: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 19: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 20: Kinetic Theory of Gases
    • 20.1: What Is the Kinetic Theory?
    • 20.2: Average and Root-Mean-Square Quantities
    • 20.3: The Kinetic Theory Applied to Gas Temperature and Pressure
    • 20.4: Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution Function
    • 20.5: Mean Free Path
    • 20.6: Real Gases: The Van der Waals Equation of State
    • 20.7: Phase Changes
    • 20.8: Evaporation
    • 20: General Problems
    • 20: PreLecture Explorations
    • 20: Integrated Tutorials
    • 20: Reading Comprehension
    • 20: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 20: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 21: Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics
    • 21.1: What Is Heat?
    • 21.2: How Does Heat Fit Into the Conservation of Energy?
    • 21.3: The First Law of Thermodynamics
    • 21.4: Heat Capacity and Specific Heat
    • 21.5: Latent Heat
    • 21.6: Work in Thermodynamic Processes
    • 21.7: Specific Thermodynamic Processes
    • 21.8: Equipartition of Energy
    • 21.9: Adiabatic Processes Revisited
    • 21.10: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation
    • 21: General Problems
    • 21: PreLecture Explorations
    • 21: Integrated Tutorials
    • 21: Reading Comprehension
    • 21: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 21: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 22: Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
    • 22.1: Second Law of Thermodynamics, Clausius Statement
    • 22.2: Heat Engines
    • 22.3: Second Law of Thermodynamics, Kelvin-Planck Statement
    • 22.4: The Most Efficient Engine
    • 22.5: Case Study: Refrigerators
    • 22.6: Entropy
    • 22.7: Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Statements
    • 22.8: Order and Disorder
    • 22.9: Entropy, Probability, and the Second Law
    • 22: General Problems
    • 22: PreLecture Explorations
    • 22: Integrated Tutorials
    • 22: Reading Comprehension
    • 22: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 22: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 23: Electric Forces
    • 23.1: Another Fundamental Force
    • 23.2: Models of Electrical Phenomena
    • 23.3: A Qualitative Look at the Electrostatic Force
    • 23.4: Insulators and Conductors
    • 23.5: Coulomb's Law
    • 23.6: Applications of Coulomb's Law
    • 23: General Problems
    • 23: PreLecture Explorations
    • 23: Integrated Tutorials
    • 23: Reading Comprehension
    • 23: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 23: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 24: Electric Fields
    • 24.1: What Are Fields?
    • 24.2: Special Case: Electric Field of a Charged Sphere
    • 24.3: Electric Field Lines
    • 24.4: Electric Field of a Collection of Charged Particles
    • 24.5: Electric Field of a Continuous Charge Distribution
    • 24.6: Special Cases of Continuous Distributions
    • 24.7: Case Study: The Shape of Lightning Rods
    • 24.8: Charged Particle in an Electric Field
    • 24.9: Special Case: Dipole in an Electric Field
    • 24: General Problems
    • 24: PreLecture Explorations
    • 24: Integrated Tutorials
    • 24: Reading Comprehension
    • 24: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 24: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 25: Gauss's Law
    • 25.1: Qualitative Look at Gauss's Law
    • 25.2: Flux
    • 25.3: Gauss's Law
    • 25.4: Special Case: Linear Symmetry
    • 25.5: Special Case: Spherical Symmetry
    • 25.6: Special Case: Planar Symmetry
    • 25.7: Special Case: Conductors
    • 25: General Problems
    • 25: PreLecture Explorations
    • 25: Integrated Tutorials
    • 25: Reading Comprehension
    • 25: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 25: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 26: Electric Potential
    • 26.1: Scalars Versus Vectors
    • 26.2: Gravity Analogy
    • 26.3: Electric Potential Energy UE
    • 26.4: Electric Potential V
    • 26.5: Special Case: Electric Potential Due to a Collection of Charged Particles
    • 26.6: Electric Potential Due to a Continuous Distribution
    • 26.7: Connection Between Electric Field ⃗E and Electric Potential V
    • 26.8: Finding ⃗E from V
    • 26.9: Graphing E and V
    • 26: General Problems
    • 26: PreLecture Explorations
    • 26: Integrated Tutorials
    • 26: Reading Comprehension
    • 26: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 26: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 27: Capacitors and Batteries
    • 27.1: The Leyden Jar
    • 27.2: Capacitors
    • 27.3: Batteries
    • 27.4: Capacitors in Parallel and Series
    • 27.5: Capacitance: Special Cases
    • 27.6: Dielectrics
    • 27.7: Energy Stored by a Capacitor with a Dielectric
    • 27.8: Gauss's Law in a Dielectric
    • 27: General Problems
    • 27: PreLecture Explorations
    • 27: Integrated Tutorials
    • 27: Reading Comprehension
    • 27: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 27: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 28: Current and Resistance
    • 28.1: Microscopic Model of Charge Flow
    • 28.2: Current
    • 28.3: Current Density
    • 28.4: Resistivity and Conductivity
    • 28.5: Resistance and Resistors
    • 28.6: Ohm's Law
    • 28.7: Power in a Circuit
    • 28: General Problems
    • 28: PreLecture Explorations
    • 28: Integrated Tutorials
    • 28: Reading Comprehension
    • 28: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 28: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 29: Direct Current (DC) Circuits
    • 29.1: Measuring Potential Differences Between Two Points
    • 29.2: Kirchhoff's Loop Rule
    • 29.3: Resistors in Series
    • 29.4: Kirchhoff's Junction Rule
    • 29.5: Resistors in Parallel
    • 29.6: Circuit Analysis
    • 29.7: DC Multimeters
    • 29.8: RC Circuits
    • 29: General Problems
    • 29: PreLecture Explorations
    • 29: Integrated Tutorials
    • 29: Reading Comprehension
    • 29: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 29: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 30: Magnetic Fields and Forces
    • 30.1: Another Fundamental Force
    • 30.2: Revealing Magnetic Fields
    • 30.3: Ørsted's Discovery
    • 30.4: The Biot-Savart Law
    • 30.5: Using the Biot-Savart Law
    • 30.6: The Magnetic Dipole Moment and Modeling Atoms
    • 30.7: Ferromagnetic Materials
    • 30.8: Magnetic Force on a Charged Particle
    • 30.9: Motion of Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field
    • 30.10: Case Study: The Hall Effect
    • 30.11: Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Wire
    • 30.12: Force Between Two Long, Straight, Parallel Wires
    • 30.13: Current Loop in a Uniform Magnetic Field
    • 30: General Problems
    • 30: PreLecture Explorations
    • 30: Integrated Tutorials
    • 30: Reading Comprehension
    • 30: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 30: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 31: Gauss's Law for Magnetism and Ampère's Law
    • 31.1: Measuring the Magnetic Field
    • 31.2: Gauss's Law for Magnetism
    • 31.3: Ampère's Law
    • 31.4: Special Case: Linear Symmetry
    • 31.5: Special Case: Solenoids
    • 31.6: Special Case: Toroids
    • 31.7: General Form of Ampère's Law
    • 31: General Problems
    • 31: PreLecture Explorations
    • 31: Integrated Tutorials
    • 31: Reading Comprehension
    • 31: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 31: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 32: Faraday's Law of Induction
    • 32.1: Another Kind of Emf
    • 32.2: Faraday's Law
    • 32.3: Lenz's Law
    • 32.4: Lenz's Law and Conservation of Energy
    • 32.5: Case Study: Slide Generator
    • 32.6: Case Study: AC Generators
    • 32.7: Case Study: Faraday's Generator and Other DC Generators
    • 32.8: Case Study: Power Transmission and Transformers
    • 32: General Problems
    • 32: PreLecture Explorations
    • 32: Integrated Tutorials
    • 32: Reading Comprehension
    • 32: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 32: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 33: Inductors and AC Circuits
    • 33.1: Inductors and Inductance
    • 33.2: Back Emf
    • 33.3: Special Case: Resistor–Inductor (RL) Circuit
    • 33.4: Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field
    • 33.5: Special Case: Inductor–Capacitor (LC) Circuit
    • 33.6: Special Case: AC Circuit with Resistance
    • 33.7: Special Case: AC Circuit with Capacitance
    • 33.8: Special Case: AC Circuit with Inductance
    • 33.9: Special Case: AC Circuit with Resistance, Inductance, and Capacitance
    • 33: General Problems
    • 33: PreLecture Explorations
    • 33: Integrated Tutorials
    • 33: Reading Comprehension
    • 33: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 33: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 34: Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
    • 34.1: Light: One Last Classical Topic
    • 34.2: Generalized Form of Faraday's Law
    • 34.3: Five Equations of Electromagnetism
    • 34.4: Electromagnetic Waves
    • 34.5: The Electromagnetic Spectrum
    • 34.6: Energy and Intensity
    • 34.7: Momentum and Radiation Pressure
    • 34.8: Polarization
    • 34: General Problems
    • 34: PreLecture Explorations
    • 34: Integrated Tutorials
    • 34: Reading Comprehension
    • 34: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 34: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 35: Diffraction and Interference
    • 35.1: Light Is a Wave
    • 35.2: Sound Wave Interference Revisited
    • 35.3: Young's Experiment: Position of the Fringes
    • 35.4: Single-Slit Diffraction
    • 35.5: Young's Experiment: Intensity
    • 35.6: Single-Slit Diffraction Intensity
    • 35.7: Double-Slit Diffraction
    • 35: General Problems
    • 35: PreLecture Explorations
    • 35: Integrated Tutorials
    • 35: Reading Comprehension
    • 35: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 35: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 36: Applications of the Wave Model
    • 36.1: Implications of the Wave Model
    • 36.2: Circular Aperture Diffraction
    • 36.3: Thin-Film Interference
    • 36.4: Diffraction Gratings
    • 36.5: Dispersion and Resolving Power of Gratings
    • 36.6: Case Study: Michelson's Interferometer
    • 36: General Problems
    • 36: PreLecture Explorations
    • 36: Integrated Tutorials
    • 36: Reading Comprehension
    • 36: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 36: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 37: Reflection and Images Formed by Reflection
    • 37.1: Geometric Optics
    • 37.2: Law of Reflection
    • 37.3: Images Formed by Plane Mirrors
    • 37.4: Spherical Mirrors
    • 37.5: Images Formed by Convex Mirrors
    • 37.6: Images Formed by Concave Mirrors
    • 37.7: Spherical Aberration
    • 37: General Problems
    • 37: PreLecture Explorations
    • 37: Integrated Tutorials
    • 37: Reading Comprehension
    • 37: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 37: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 38: Refraction and Images Formed by Refraction
    • 38.1: Law of Refraction
    • 38.2: Total Internal Reflection
    • 38.3: Dispersion
    • 38.4: Refraction at Spherical Surfaces
    • 38.5: Thin Lenses
    • 38.6: Images Formed by Diverging Lenses
    • 38.7: Images Formed by Converging Lenses
    • 38.8: The Human Eye
    • 38.9: One-Lens Systems
    • 38.10: Multiple-Lens Systems
    • 38: General Problems
    • 38: PreLecture Explorations
    • 38: Integrated Tutorials
    • 38: Reading Comprehension
    • 38: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 38: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 39: Relativity
    • 39.1: It's in the Eye of the Observer
    • 39.2: Special Case: Galilean Relativity
    • 39.3: Postulates of Special Relativity
    • 39.4: Lorentz Transformations
    • 39.5: Length Contraction
    • 39.6: Time Dilation
    • 39.7: The Relativistic Doppler Effect
    • 39.8: Velocity Transformation
    • 39.9: Mass and Momentum Transformation
    • 39.10: Newton's Second Law and Energy
    • 39.11: General Relativity
    • 39.12: Gravitational Lenses and Black Holes
    • 39: General Problems
    • 39: PreLecture Explorations
    • 39: Integrated Tutorials
    • 39: Reading Comprehension
    • 39: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 39: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 40: The Origin of Quantum Physics
    • 40.1: Another Modern Idea
    • 40.2: Black-Body Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe
    • 40.3: The Photoelectric Effect
    • 40.4: The Compton Effect
    • 40.5: Wave-Particle Duality
    • 40.6: The Wave Properties of Matter
    • 40: General Problems
    • 40: PreLecture Explorations
    • 40: Integrated Tutorials
    • 40: Reading Comprehension
    • 40: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 40: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 41: Schrödinger's Equation
    • 41.1: The New Quantum Theory
    • 41.2: A Trapped Particle
    • 41.3: The Double-Slit Experiment Revisited: Probability Waves
    • 41.4: Schrödinger's Equation
    • 41.5: Special Case: A Particle in an Infinite Square Well
    • 41.6: Special Case: A Particle in a Finite Square Well
    • 41.7: Barrier Tunneling
    • 41.8: Special Case: Quantum Simple Harmonic Oscillator
    • 41.9: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
    • 41: General Problems
    • 41: PreLecture Explorations
    • 41: Integrated Tutorials
    • 41: Reading Comprehension
    • 41: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 41: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 42: Atoms
    • 42.1: Early Atomic Models
    • 42.2: Rutherford's Model of the Atom
    • 42.3: Bohr's Model and Atomic Spectra
    • 42.4: De Broglie's Theory and Atoms
    • 42.5: Schrödinger's Equation Applied to Hydrogen
    • 42.6: Magnetic Dipole Moments and Spin
    • 42.7: Other Atoms
    • 42.8: Organizing Atoms
    • 42.9: The Zeeman Effect
    • 42.10: Practical Devices
    • 42: General Problems
    • 42: PreLecture Explorations
    • 42: Integrated Tutorials
    • 42: Reading Comprehension
    • 42: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 42: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter 43: Nuclear and Particle Physics
    • 43.1: Describing the Nucleus
    • 43.2: The Strong Force
    • 43.3: Models of Nuclei
    • 43.4: Radioactive Decay
    • 43.5: The Weak Force
    • 43.6: Binding Energy
    • 43.7: Fission Reactions
    • 43.8: Fusion Reactions
    • 43.9: Human Exposure to Radiation
    • 43.10: The Standard Model
    • 43: General Problems
    • 43: PreLecture Explorations
    • 43: Integrated Tutorials
    • 43: Reading Comprehension
    • 43: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 43: WebAssign Original Content

  • Chapter A: Mathematics
    • A.1: Algebra and Geometry
    • A.2: Trigonometry
    • A.3: Calculus
    • A.4: Propagation of Uncertainty

  • Chapter B: Reference Tables
    • B.1: Symbols and Units
    • B.2: Conversion Factors
    • B.3: Some Astronomical Data
    • B.4: Rough Magnitudes and Scales

  • Chapter Q1: Quick Prep: Keeping It in the Ballpark
    • Problem
    • Tutorials

  • Chapter Q2: Quick Prep: The Motion of Objects Along a Line
    • Problem
    • Tutorials

  • Chapter Q3: Quick Prep: Those Special Functions
    • Problem
    • Tutorials

  • Chapter Q4: Quick Prep: Elements of Approximation and Graphing
    • Problem
    • Tutorials

  • Chapter Q5: Quick Prep: Probability and Error
    • Problem
    • Tutorials

  • Chapter Q6: Quick Prep: Return to Lineland
    • Problem
    • Tutorials

  • Chapter Q7: Quick Prep: Vectors, Displacement, and Velocity
    • Problem
    • Tutorials

  • Chapter Q8: Quick Prep: Life on a Sphere
    • Problem
    • Tutorials

  • Chapter Q9: Quick Prep: Force
    • Problem
    • Tutorials

  • Chapter Q10: Quick Prep: Vector Projections
    • Problem
    • Tutorials

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Chapter 1: Getting Started
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Chapter 2: One-Dimensional Motion
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Chapter 3: Vectors
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Chapter 4: Two- and Three-Dimensional Motion
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Chapter 5: Newton's Law of Motion
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Chapter 6: Applications of Newton's Law of Motion
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Chapter 7: Gravity
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Chapter 8: Conservation of Energy
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Chapter 9: Energy in Nonisolated Systems
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Chapter 10: Systems of Particles and Conservation of Momentum
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Chapter 11: Collisions
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Chapter 12: Rotation I: Kinematics and Dynamics
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Chapter 13: Rotation II: A Conservation Approach
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Chapter 14: Static Equilibrium, Elasticity, and Fracture
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Chapter 15: Fluids
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Chapter 16: Oscillations
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Chapter 17: Traveling Waves
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Chapter 18: Superposition and Standing Waves
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Chapter 19: Temperature, Thermal Expansion, and Gas Laws
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Chapter 20: Kinetic Theory of Gases
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Chapter 21: Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics
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Chapter 22: Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
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Chapter 23: Electric Forces
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Chapter 24: Electric Fields
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Chapter 25: Gauss's Law
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Chapter 26: Electric Potential
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Chapter 27: Capacitors and Batteries
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Chapter 28: Current and Resistance
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Chapter 29: Direct Current (DC) Circuits
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Chapter 30: Magnetic Fields and Forces
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Chapter 31: Gauss's Law for Magnetism and Ampère's Law
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Chapter 32: Faraday's Law of Induction
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Chapter 33: Inductors and AC Circuits
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Chapter 34: Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
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Chapter 35: Diffraction and Interference
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Chapter 36: Applications of the Wave Model
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Chapter 37: Reflection and Images Formed by Reflection
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Chapter 38: Refraction and Images Formed by Refraction
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Chapter 39: Relativity
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Chapter 40: The Origin of Quantum Physics
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Chapter 41: Schrödinger's Equation
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Chapter 42: Atoms
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Chapter 43: Nuclear and Particle Physics
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