University Physics 1st edition

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Samuel J. Ling, Bill Moebs, Jeff Sanny, et al.
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  • Chapter 1: Units and Measurement
    • 1.1: The Scope and Scale of Physics
    • 1.2: Units and Standards
    • 1.3: Unit Conversion
    • 1.4: Dimensional Analysis
    • 1.5: Estimates and Fermi Calculations
    • 1.6: Significant Figures
    • 1.7: Solving Problems in Physics
    • 1: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 1: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 1: Digital Workbooks
    • 1: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 2: Vectors
    • 2.1: Scalars and Vectors
    • 2.2: Coordinate Systems and Components of a Vector
    • 2.3: Algebra of Vectors
    • 2.4: Products of Vectors
    • 2: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 2: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 2: Digital Workbooks
    • 2: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 3: Motion Along a Straight Line
    • 3.1: Position, Displacement, and Average Velocity
    • 3.2: Instantaneous Velocity and Speed
    • 3.3: Average and Instantaneous Acceleration
    • 3.4: Motion with Constant Acceleration
    • 3.5: Free Fall
    • 3.6: Finding Velocity and Displacement from Acceleration
    • 3: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 3: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 3: Digital Workbooks
    • 3: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 4: Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
    • 4.1: Displacement and Velocity Vectors
    • 4.2: Acceleration Vector
    • 4.3: Projectile Motion
    • 4.4: Uniform Circular Motion
    • 4.5: Relative Motion in One and Two Dimensions
    • 4: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 4: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 4: Digital Workbooks
    • 4: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 5: Newton's Laws of Motion
    • 5.1: Forces
    • 5.2: Newton's First Law
    • 5.3: Newton's Second Law
    • 5.4: Mass and Weight
    • 5.5: Newton's Third Law
    • 5.6: Common Forces
    • 5.7: Free-Body Diagrams
    • 5: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 5: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 5: Digital Workbooks
    • 5: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 6: Applications of Newton's Laws
    • 6.1: Applying Newton's Laws
    • 6.2: Friction
    • 6.3: Centripetal Force
    • 6.4: Drag Force and Terminal Speed
    • 6: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 6: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 6: Digital Workbooks
    • 6: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 7: Work and Kinetic Energy
    • 7.1: Work
    • 7.2: Kinetic Energy
    • 7.3: Work-Energy Theorem
    • 7.4: Power
    • 7: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 7: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 7: Digital Workbooks
    • 7: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 8: Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy
    • 8.1: Potential Energy of a System
    • 8.2: Conservative and Nonconservative Forces
    • 8.3: Conservation of Energy
    • 8.4: Potential Energy Diagrams and Stability
    • 8.5: Sources of Energy
    • 8: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 8: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 8: Digital Workbooks
    • 8: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 9: Linear Momentum and Collisions
    • 9.1: Linear Momentum
    • 9.2: Impulse and Collisions
    • 9.3: Conservation of Linear Momentum
    • 9.4: Types of Collisions
    • 9.5: Collisions in Multiple Dimensions
    • 9.6: Center of Mass
    • 9.7: Rocket Propulsion
    • 9: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 9: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 9: Digital Workbooks
    • 9: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 10: Fixed-Axis Rotation
    • 10.1: Rotational Variables
    • 10.2: Rotation with Constant Angular Acceleration
    • 10.3: Relating Angular and Translational Quantities
    • 10.4: Moment of Inertia and Rotational Kinetic Energy
    • 10.5: Calculating Moments of Inertia
    • 10.6: Torque
    • 10.7: Newton's Second Law for Rotation
    • 10.8: Work and Power for Rotational Motion
    • 10: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 10: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 10: Digital Workbooks
    • 10: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 11: Angular Momentum
    • 11.1: Rolling Motion
    • 11.2: Angular Momentum
    • 11.3: Conservation of Angular Momentum
    • 11.4: Precession of a Gyroscope
    • 11: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 11: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 11: Digital Workbooks
    • 11: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 12: Static Equilibrium and Elasticity
    • 12.1: Conditions for Static Equilibrium
    • 12.2: Examples of Static Equilibrium
    • 12.3: Stress, Strain, and Elastic Modulus
    • 12.4: Elasticity and Plasticity
    • 12: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 12: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 12: Digital Workbooks
    • 12: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 13: Gravitation
    • 13.1: Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
    • 13.2: Gravitation Near Earth's Surface
    • 13.3: Gravitational Potential Energy and Total Energy
    • 13.4: Satellite Orbits and Energy
    • 13.5: Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
    • 13.6: Tidal Forces
    • 13.7: Einstein's Theory of Gravity
    • 13: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 13: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 13: Digital Workbooks
    • 13: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 14: Fluid Mechanics
    • 14.1: Fluids, Density, and Pressure
    • 14.2: Measuring Pressure
    • 14.3: Pascal's Principle and Hydraulics
    • 14.4: Archimedes' Principle and Buoyancy
    • 14.5: Fluid Dynamics
    • 14.6: Bernoulli's Equation
    • 14.7: Viscosity and Turbulence
    • 14: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 14: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 14: Digital Workbooks
    • 14: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 15: Oscillations
    • 15.1: Simple Harmonic Motion
    • 15.2: Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
    • 15.3: Comparing Simple Harmonic Motion and Circular Motion
    • 15.4: Pendulums
    • 15.5: Damped Oscillations
    • 15.6: Forced Oscillations
    • 15: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 15: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 15: Digital Workbooks
    • 15: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 16: Waves
    • 16.1: Traveling Waves
    • 16.2: Mathematics of Traveling Waves
    • 16.3: Wave Speed on a Stretched String
    • 16.4: Energy and Power of a Wave
    • 16.5: Interference of Waves
    • 16.6: Standing Waves and Resonance
    • 16: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 16: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 16: Digital Workbooks
    • 16: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 17: Sound
    • 17.1: Sound Waves
    • 17.2: Speed of Sound
    • 17.3: Sound Intensity
    • 17.4: Normal Modes of a Standing Sound Wave
    • 17.5: Sources of Musical Sound
    • 17.6: Beats
    • 17.7: The Doppler Effect
    • 17.8: Shock Waves
    • 17: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 17: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 17: Digital Workbooks
    • 17: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 18: Temperature and Heat
    • 18.1: Temperature and Thermal Equilibrium
    • 18.2: Thermometers and Temperature Scales
    • 18.3: Thermal Expansion
    • 18.4: Heat Transfer, Specific Heat, and Calorimetry
    • 18.5: Phase Changes
    • 18.6: Mechanisms of Heat Transfer
    • 18: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 18: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 18: Digital Workbooks
    • 18: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 19: The Kinetic Theory of Gases
    • 19.1: Molecular Model of an Ideal Gas
    • 19.2: Pressure, Temperature, and RMS Speed
    • 19.3: Equipartition of Energy
    • 19.4: Distribution of Molecular Speeds
    • 19: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 19: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 19: Digital Workbooks
    • 19: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 20: The First Law of Thermodynamics
    • 20.1: Thermodynamic Systems
    • 20.2: Work, Heat, and Internal Energy
    • 20.3: First Law of Thermodynamics
    • 20.4: Thermodynamic Processes
    • 20.5: Heat Capacities of an Ideal Gas
    • 20.6: Adiabatic Processes for an Ideal Gas
    • 20: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 20: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 20: Digital Workbooks
    • 20: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 21: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
    • 21.1: Reversible and Irreversible Processes
    • 21.2: Heat Engines
    • 21.3: Refrigerators and Heat Pumps
    • 21.4: Statements of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
    • 21.5: The Carnot Cycle
    • 21.6: Entropy
    • 21.7: Entropy on a Microscopic Scale
    • 21.8: Entropy and Availability of Energy
    • 21: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 21: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 21: Digital Workbooks
    • 21: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 22: Electric Charges and Fields
    • 22.1: Electric Charge
    • 22.2: Conductors, Insulators, and Charging by Induction
    • 22.3: Coulomb's Law
    • 22.4: Electric Field
    • 22.5: Calculating Electric Fields of Charge Distributions
    • 22.6: Electric Field Lines
    • 22.7: Electric Dipoles
    • 22: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 22: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 22: Digital Workbooks
    • 22: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 23: Gauss's Law
    • 23.1: Electric Flux
    • 23.2: Explaining Gauss's Law
    • 23.3: Applying Gauss's Law
    • 23.4: Conductors in Electrostatic Equilibrium
    • 23: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 23: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 23: Digital Workbooks
    • 23: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 24: Electric Potential
    • 24.1: Electric Potential Energy
    • 24.2: Electric Potential and Potential Difference
    • 24.3: Calculations of Electric Potential
    • 24.4: Determining Field from Potential
    • 24.5: Equipotential Surfaces
    • 24.6: Applications of Electrostatics
    • 24: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 24: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 24: Digital Workbooks
    • 24: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 25: Capacitance
    • 25.1: Capacitors and Capacitance
    • 25.2: Capacitors in Series and in Parallel
    • 25.3: Energy Stored in a Capacitor
    • 25.4: Capacitor with a Dielectric
    • 25.5: Molecular Model of a Dielectric
    • 25: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 25: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 25: Digital Workbooks
    • 25: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 26: Current and Resistance
    • 26.1: Electric Current
    • 26.2: Model of Conduction in Metals
    • 26.3: Resistivity and Resistance
    • 26.4: Ohm's Law
    • 26.5: Electrical Energy and Power
    • 26.6: Superconductors
    • 26: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 26: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 26: Digital Workbooks
    • 26: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 27: Direct-Current Circuits
    • 27.1: Electromotive Force
    • 27.2: Resistors in Series and Parallel
    • 27.3: Kirchhoff's Rules
    • 27.4: Electrical Measuring Instruments
    • 27.5: RC Circuits
    • 27.6: Household Wiring and Electrical Safety
    • 27: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 27: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 27: Digital Workbooks
    • 27: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 28: Magnetic Forces and Fields
    • 28.1: Magnetism and its Historical Discoveries
    • 28.2: Magnetic Fields and Lines
    • 28.3: Motion of a Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field
    • 28.4: Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor
    • 28.5: Force and Torque on a Current Loop
    • 28.6: The Hall Effect
    • 28.7: Applications of Magnetic Forces and Fields
    • 28: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 28: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 28: Digital Workbooks
    • 28: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 29: Sources of Magnetic Fields
    • 29.1: The Biot-Savart Law
    • 29.2: Magnetic Field in a Straight Wire
    • 29.3: Magnetic Force Between Two Parallel Currents
    • 29.4: Magnetic Field of a Current Loop
    • 29.5: Ampère's Law
    • 29.6: Solenoids and Toroids
    • 29.7: Magnetism in Matter
    • 29: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 29: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 29: Digital Workbooks
    • 29: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 30: Electromagnetic Induction
    • 30.1: Faraday's Law
    • 30.2: Lenz's Law
    • 30.3: Motional emf
    • 30.4: Induced Electric Fields
    • 30.5: Eddy Currents
    • 30.6: Generators and Motors
    • 30.7: Applications of Electromagnetic Induction
    • 30: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 30: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 30: Digital Workbooks
    • 30: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 31: Inductance
    • 31.1 Mutual Inductance
    • 31.2 Self-Inductance and Inductors
    • 31.3 Energy in a Magnetic Field
    • 31.4 RL Circuits
    • 31.5 Oscillations in an LC Circuit
    • 31.6 RLC Series Circuits
    • 31: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 31: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 31: Digital Workbooks
    • 31: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 32: Alternating-Current Circuits
    • 32.1: Sources of Alternating Current
    • 32.2: Simple AC Circuits
    • 32.3: RLC Series Circuits with Alternating Current
    • 32.4: Power in an AC Circuit
    • 32.5: Resonance in an AC Circuit
    • 32.6: Transformers
    • 32: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 32: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 32: Digital Workbooks
    • 32: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 33: Electromagnetic Waves
    • 33.1: Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
    • 33.2: Plane Electromagnetic Waves
    • 33.3: Energy Carried by Electromagnetic Waves
    • 33.4: Momentum and Radiation Pressure
    • 33.5: The Electromagnetic Spectrum
    • 33: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 33: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 33: Digital Workbooks
    • 33: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 34: The Nature of Light
    • 34.1: The Propagation of Light
    • 34.2: Reflection
    • 34.3: Refraction
    • 34.4: Total Internal Reflection
    • 34.5: Huygen's Principle
    • 34.6: Dispersion
    • 34.7: Polarization
    • 34: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 34: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 34: Digital Workbooks
    • 34: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 35: Geometric Optics and Image Formation
    • 35.1: Images Formed by Plane Mirrors
    • 35.2: Spherical Mirrors
    • 35.3: Images Formed by Refraction
    • 35.4: Thin Lenses
    • 35.5: The Eye
    • 35.6: The Camera
    • 35.7: The Simple Magnifier
    • 35.8: Microscopes and Telescopes
    • 35: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 35: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 35: Digital Workbooks
    • 35: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 36: Interference
    • 36.1: Young's Double-Slit Interference Experiment
    • 36.2: Mathematics of Double Slit Interference
    • 36.3: Intensity in Multi-Slit Interference and Diffraction Gratings
    • 36.4: Interference in Thin Films
    • 36.5: The Michelson Interferometer
    • 36: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 36: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 36: Digital Workbooks
    • 36: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 37: Diffraction
    • 37.1: Single-Slit Diffraction
    • 37.2: Intensity in Single-Slit Diffraction
    • 37.3: Double-Slit Diffraction
    • 37.4: Circular Apertures and Resolution
    • 37.5: X-Ray Diffraction
    • 37.6: Holography
    • 37: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 37: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 37: Digital Workbooks
    • 37: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 38: Relativity
    • 38.1: Invariance of Physical Laws
    • 38.2: Relativity of Simultaneity
    • 38.3: Time Dilation
    • 38.4: Length Contraction
    • 38.5: The Lorentz Transformation
    • 38.6: Relativistic Velocity Transformation
    • 38.7: Doppler Effect for Light
    • 38.8: Relativistic Momentum
    • 38.9: Relativistic Energy
    • 38: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 38: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 38: Digital Workbooks
    • 38: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 39: Photons and Matter Waves
    • 39.1: Blackbody Radiation
    • 39.2: Photoelectric Effect
    • 39.3: The Compton Effect
    • 39.4: Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom
    • 39.5: De Broglie's Matter Waves
    • 39.6: Wave-Particle Duality
    • 39: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 39: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 39: Digital Workbooks
    • 39: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 40: Quantum Mechanics
    • 40.1: Wave Functions
    • 40.2: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
    • 40.3: The Schrödinger Equation
    • 40.4: The Quantum Particle in a Box
    • 40.5: The Quantum Oscillator
    • 40.6: The Quantum Tunneling of Particles through Potential Barriers
    • 40: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 40: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 40: Digital Workbooks
    • 40: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 41: Atomic Structure
    • 41.1: The Hydrogen Atom
    • 41.2: Orbital Magnetic Dipole Moment of the Electron
    • 41.3: Electron Spin
    • 41.4: The Exclusion Principle and the Periodic Table
    • 41.5: Atomic Spectra and X-rays
    • 41: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 41: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 41: Digital Workbooks
    • 41: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 42: Condensed Matter Physics
    • 42.1: Types of Molecular Bonds
    • 42.2: Molecular Spectra
    • 42.3: Bonding in Solids
    • 42.4: Free-Electron Model of Metals
    • 42.5: Band Theory of Solids
    • 42.6: Semiconductors and Doping
    • 42.7: Semiconductor Devices
    • 42.8: Superconductivity
    • 42: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 42: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 42: Digital Workbooks
    • 42: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 43: Nuclear Physics
    • 43.1: Properties of Nuclei
    • 43.2: Nuclear Binding Energy
    • 43.3: Radioactive Decay
    • 43.4: Nuclear Reactions
    • 43.5: Fission
    • 43.6: Fusion
    • 43.7: Medical Applications and Biological Effects of Nuclear Radiation
    • 43: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 43: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 43: Digital Workbooks
    • 43: Extra Problems

  • Chapter 44: Particle Physics and Cosmology
    • 44.1: Introduction to Particle Physics
    • 44.2: Particle Conservation Laws
    • 44.3: Quarks
    • 44.4: Particle Accelerators and Detectors
    • 44.5: The Standard Model
    • 44.6: The Big Bang
    • 44.7: Evolution of the Early Universe
    • 44: Additional and Challenge Problems
    • 44: Interactive Video Vignettes
    • 44: Digital Workbooks
    • 44: Extra Problems

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