Physics (Giambattista)
by Giambattista, Alan; Richardson, Betty McCarthy; Richardson, Robert C.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-01-18
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Table of Contents
| List of Selected Applications | p. x |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| To the Student | p. xxi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Why Study Physics? | p. 2 |
| Talking Physics | p. 2 |
| The Use of Mathematics | p. 3 |
| Scientific Notation and Significant Figures | p. 4 |
| Units | p. 7 |
| Dimensional Analysis | p. 10 |
| Problem-Solving Techniques | p. 12 |
| Approximation | p. 13 |
| Graphs | p. 14 |
| Mechanics | |
| Motion Along a Line | p. 23 |
| Understanding Motion | p. 24 |
| Position and Displacement | p. 24 |
| Velocity: Rate of Change of Position | p. 27 |
| Acceleration: Rate of Change of Velocity | p. 33 |
| Motion Along a Line with Constant Acceleration | p. 37 |
| Visualizing Motion Along a Line with Constant Acceleration | p. 40 |
| Free Fall | p. 43 |
| Motion in a Plane | p. 55 |
| Grapical Addition and Subtraction | p. 56 |
| Vector Addition and Subtraction Using Components | p. 58 |
| Velocity | p. 62 |
| Acceleration | p. 63 |
| Motion in a Plane with Constant Acceleration | p. 65 |
| Velociti Is Relative; Reference Frames | p. 71 |
| Force and Newton's Laws of Motion | p. 85 |
| Force | p. 86 |
| Inertia and Equilibrium: Newton's First Law of Motion | p. 90 |
| Net Force, Mass, and Acceleration: Newton's Second Law of Motion | p. 94 |
| Interaction Pairs: Newton's Third Law of Motion | p. 95 |
| Gravitational Forces | p. 97 |
| Contact Forces | p. 100 |
| Tension | p. 107 |
| Applying Newton's Second Law | p. 111 |
| Reference Frames | p. 120 |
| Apparent Weight | p. 121 |
| Air Resistance | p. 123 |
| Fundamental Forces | p. 126 |
| Circular Motion | p. 143 |
| Description of Uniform Circular Motion | p. 144 |
| Radial Acceleration | p. 149 |
| Unbanked and Banked Curves | p. 153 |
| Circular Orbits of Satellites and Planets | p. 156 |
| Nonuniform Circular Motion | p. 160 |
| Tangential and Angular Acceleration | p. 164 |
| Apparent Weight and Artificial Gravity | p. 166 |
| Review and Synthesis: Chapters 1-5 | p. 178 |
| Conservation of Energy | p. 181 |
| The Law of Conservation of Energy | p. 182 |
| Work Done by a Constant Force | p. 183 |
| Kinetic Energy | p. 190 |
| Gravitational Potential Energy (1) | p. 192 |
| Gravitational Potential Energy (2) | p. 197 |
| Work Done by Variable Forces: Hooke's Law | p. 200 |
| Elastic Potential Energy | p. 203 |
| Power | p. 206 |
| Linear Momentum | p. 221 |
| A Vector Conservation Law | p. 222 |
| Momentum | p. 222 |
| The Impulse-Momentum Theorem | p. 224 |
| Conservation of Momentum | p. 230 |
| Center of Mass | p. 233 |
| Motion of the Center of Mass | p. 235 |
| Collisions in One Dimension | p. 237 |
| Collisions in Two Dimensions | p. 242 |
| Torque and Angular Momentum | p. 255 |
| Rotational Kinetic Energy and Rotational Inertia | p. 256 |
| Torque | p. 261 |
| Work Done by a Torque | p. 266 |
| Equilibrium Revisited | p. 267 |
| Equilibrium in the Human Body | p. 275 |
| Rotational Form of Newton's Second Law | p. 280 |
| The Motion of Rolling Objects | p. 281 |
| Angular Momentum | p. 284 |
| The Vector Nature of Angular Momentum | p. 287 |
| Review and Synthesis: Chapters 6-8 | p. 303 |
| Fluids | p. 309 |
| States of Matter | p. 310 |
| Pressure | p. 310 |
| Pascal's Principle | p. 313 |
| The Effect of Gravity on Fluid Pressure | p. 314 |
| Measuring Pressure | p. 317 |
| Archimedes' Principle | p. 320 |
| Fluid Flow | p. 324 |
| Bernoulli's Equation | p. 327 |
| Viscosity | p. 331 |
| Viscous Drag | p. 334 |
| Surface Tension | p. 336 |
| Elasticity and Oscillations | p. 349 |
| Elastic Deformations of Solids | p. 350 |
| Hooke's Law for Tensile and Compressive Forces | p. 350 |
| Beyond Hooke's Law | p. 352 |
| Shear and Volume Deformations | p. 355 |
| Simple Harmonic Motion | p. 359 |
| The Period and Frequency for SHM | p. 362 |
| Graphical Analysis of SHM | p. 366 |
| The Pendulum | p. 368 |
| Damped Oscillations | p. 373 |
| Forced Oscillations and Resonance | p. 373 |
| Waves | p. 385 |
| Waves and Energy Transport | p. 386 |
| Transverse and Longitudinal Waves | p. 388 |
| Speed of Transverse Waves on a String | p. 390 |
| Periodic Waves | p. 391 |
| Mathematical Description of a Wave | p. 393 |
| Graphing Waves | p. 394 |
| Principle of Superposition | p. 396 |
| Reflection and Refraction | p. 397 |
| Interference and Diffraction | p. 400 |
| Standing Waves | p. 402 |
| Sound | p. 415 |
| Sound Waves | p. 416 |
| The Speed of Sound Waves | p. 418 |
| Amplitude and Intensity of Sound Waves | p. 419 |
| Standing Sound Waves | p. 424 |
| Timbre | p. 428 |
| The Human Ear | p. 429 |
| Beats | p. 431 |
| The Doppler Effect | p. 433 |
| Shock Waves | p. 437 |
| Echolocation and Medical Imaging | p. 438 |
| Review and Synthesis: Chapters 9-12 | p. 449 |
| Thermal Physics | |
| Temperature and the Ideal Gas | p. 453 |
| Temperature | p. 454 |
| Temperature Scales | p. 455 |
| Thermal Expansion of Solids and Liquids | p. 456 |
| Molecular Picture of a Gas | p. 460 |
| Absolute Temperature and the Ideal Gas Law | p. 462 |
| Kinetic Theory of the Ideal Gas | p. 466 |
| Temperature and Reaction Rates | p. 471 |
| Collisions Between Gas Molecules | p. 473 |
| Heat | p. 485 |
| Internal Energy | p. 486 |
| Heat | p. 488 |
| Heat Capacity and Specific Heat | p. 490 |
| Specific Heat of Ideal Gases | p. 493 |
| Phase Transitions | p. 495 |
| Thermal Conduction | p. 502 |
| Thermal Convection | p. 505 |
| Thermal Radiation | p. 508 |
| Thermodynamics | p. 523 |
| The First Law of Thermodynamics | p. 524 |
| Thermodynamic Processes | p. 525 |
| Thermodynamic Processes for an Ideal Gas | p. 529 |
| Reversible and Irreversible Processes | p. 532 |
| Heat Engines | p. 533 |
| Refrigerators and Heat Pumps | p. 536 |
| Reversible Engines and Heat Pumps | p. 538 |
| Details of the Carnot Cycle | p. 541 |
| Entropy | p. 542 |
| Statistical Interpretation of Entropy | p. 545 |
| The Third Law of Thermodynamics | p. 547 |
| Review and Synthesis: Chapters 13-15 | p. 557 |
| Electromagnetism | |
| Electric Forces and Fields | p. 561 |
| Electric Charge | p. 562 |
| Electrical Conductors and Insulators | p. 565 |
| Coulomb's Law | p. 569 |
| The Electric Field | p. 573 |
| Motion of a Point Charge in a Uniform Electric Field | p. 580 |
| Conductors in Electrostatic Equilibrium | p. 582 |
| Gauss's Law for Electric Fields | p. 585 |
| Electric Potential | p. 599 |
| Electric Potential Energy | p. 600 |
| Electric Potential | p. 603 |
| The Relationship Between Electric Field and Potential | p. 610 |
| Conservation of Energy for Moving Charges | p. 613 |
| Capacitors | p. 614 |
| Dielectrics | p. 618 |
| Energy Stored in a Capacitor | p. 623 |
| Electric Current and Circuits | p. 637 |
| Electric Current | p. 638 |
| Emf and Circuits | p. 640 |
| Microscopic View of Current in a Metal: The Free-Electron Model | p. 642 |
| Resistance and Resistivity | p. 644 |
| Kirchhoff's Rules | p. 650 |
| Series and Parallel Circuits | p. 651 |
| Circuit Analysis Using Kirchhoff's Rules | p. 657 |
| Power and Energy in Circuits | p. 659 |
| Measuring Currents and Voltages | p. 661 |
| RC Circuits | p. 663 |
| Electrical Safety | p. 667 |
| Review and Synthesis: Chapters 16-18 | p. 683 |
| Magnetic Forces and Fields | p. 687 |
| Magnetic Fields | p. 688 |
| Magnetic Force on a Point Charge | p. 692 |
| Charged Particle Moving Perpendicularly to a Uniform Magnetic Field | p. 697 |
| Motion of a Charged Particle in a Uniform Magnetic Field: General | p. 701 |
| A Charged Particle in Crossed E and B Fields | p. 702 |
| Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Wire | p. 706 |
| Torque on a Current Loop | p. 708 |
| Magnetic Field Due to an Electric Current | p. 711 |
| Ampere's Law | p. 716 |
| Magnetic Materials | p. 718 |
| Electromagnetic Induction | p. 733 |
| Motional Emf | p. 734 |
| Electric Generators | p. 737 |
| Faraday's Law | p. 740 |
| Lenz's Law | p. 745 |
| Back Emf in a Motor | p. 747 |
| Transformers | p. 748 |
| Eddy Currents | p. 749 |
| Induced Electric Fields | p. 751 |
| Mutual- and Self-Inductance | p. 752 |
| LR Circuits | p. 756 |
| Alternating Current | p. 771 |
| Sinusoidal Currents and Voltages; Resistors in ac Circuits | p. 772 |
| Electricity in the Home | p. 774 |
| Capacitors in ac Circuits | p. 776 |
| Inductors in ac Circuits | p. 779 |
| RLC Series Circuits | p. 781 |
| Resonance in an RLC Circuit | p. 785 |
| Converting ac to dc; Filters | p. 787 |
| Review and Synthesis: Chapters 19-21 | p. 797 |
| Electromagnetic Waves and Optics | |
| Electromagnetic Waves | p. 801 |
| Accelerating Charges Produce Electromagnetic Waves | p. 802 |
| Maxwell's Equations | p. 803 |
| Antennas | p. 804 |
| The Electromagnetic Spectrum | p. 807 |
| Speed of EM Waves in Vacuum and in Matter | p. 811 |
| Characteristics of Electromagnetic Waves in Vacuum | p. 815 |
| Energy Transport by EM Waves | p. 817 |
| Polarization | p. 821 |
| The Doppler Effect for EM Waves | p. 828 |
| Reflection and Refraction of Light | p. 837 |
| Wavefronts, Rays, and Huygens's Principle | p. 838 |
| The Reflection of Light | p. 841 |
| The Refraction of Light: Snell's Law | p. 842 |
| Total Internal Reflection | p. 847 |
| Polarization by Reflection | p. 852 |
| The Formation of Images Through Reflection or Refraction | p. 53 |
| Plane Mirrors | p. 856 |
| Spherical Mirrors | p. 858 |
| Thin Lenses | p. 864 |
| Optical Instruments | p. 879 |
| Lenses in Combination | p. 880 |
| Cameras | p. 883 |
| The Eye | p. 886 |
| The Simple Magnifier | p. 891 |
| Compound Microscopes | p. 893 |
| Telescopes | p. 895 |
| Aberrations of Lenses and Mirrors | p. 899 |
| Interference and Diffraction | p. 909 |
| Constructive and Destructive Interference | p. 910 |
| The Michelson Interferometer | p. 914 |
| Thin Films | p. 917 |
| Young's Double-Slit Experiment | p. 922 |
| Gratings | p. 926 |
| Diffraction and Huygens's Principle | p. 929 |
| Diffraction by a Single Slit | p. 931 |
| Diffraction and the Resolution of Optical Instruments | p. 935 |
| X-Ray Diffiraction | p. 937 |
| Holography | p. 939 |
| Review and Synthesis: Chapters 22-25 | p. 950 |
| Quantum and Particle Physics and Relativity | |
| Relativity | p. 953 |
| Postulates of Relativity | p. 954 |
| Simultaneity and Ideal Observers | p. 957 |
| Time Dilation | p. 960 |
| Length Contraction | p. 963 |
| Velocities in Different Reference Frames | p. 965 |
| Relativistic Momentum | p. 967 |
| Mass and Energy | p. 969 |
| Relativistic Kinetic Energy | p. 971 |
| Early Quantum Physics and the Photon | p. 983 |
| Quantization | p. 984 |
| Blackbody Radiation | p. 984 |
| The Photoelectric Effect | p. 985 |
| X-Ray Production | p. 991 |
| Compton Scattering | p. 992 |
| Spectroscopy and Early Models of the Atom | p. 994 |
| The Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom; Atomic Energy Levels | p. 998 |
| Pair Annihilation and Pair Production | p. 1005 |
| Quantum Physics | p. 1015 |
| The Wave-Particle Duality | p. 1016 |
| Matter Waves | p. 1017 |
| Electron Microscopes | p. 1020 |
| The Uncertainty Principle | p. 1022 |
| Wave Functions for a Confined Particle | p. 1024 |
| The Hydrogen Atom: Wave Functions and Quantum Numbers | p. 1026 |
| The Exclusion Principle: Electron Configurations for Atoms Other Than Hydrogen | p. 1028 |
| Electron Energy Levels in a Solid | p. 1032 |
| Lasers | p. 1034 |
| Tunneling | p. 1038 |
| Nuclear Physics | p. 1049 |
| Nuclear Structure | p. 1050 |
| Binding Energy | p. 1053 |
| Radioactivity | p. 1057 |
| Radioactive Decay Rates and Half-Lives | p. 1063 |
| Biological Effects of Radiation | p. 1069 |
| Induced Nuclear Reactions | p. 1073 |
| Fission | p. 1075 |
| Fusion | p. 1080 |
| Particle Physics | p. 1089 |
| Fundamental Particles | p. 1090 |
| Fundamental Interactions | p. 1092 |
| Unification | p. 1095 |
| Particle Accelerators | p. 1097 |
| Twenty-First-Century Particle Physics | p. 1098 |
| Review and Synthesis: Chapters 26-30 | p. 1102 |
| Mathematics Review | p. A-1 |
| Table of Selected Nuclides | p. A-15 |
| Answers to Selected Questions and Problems | p. AP-1 |
| Credits | p. C-1 |
| Index | p. I-1 |
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