Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Chapters 1-46 (with Study Tools CD-ROM)

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-10-30
Publisher(s): Brooks Cole
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Summary

Achieve success in your physics course by making the most of what PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS has to offer you. From a host of in-text features to a range of outstanding technology resources, you'll have everything you need to understand the natural forces and principles of physics. Throughout every chapter, the authors have built in a wide range of examples, exercises, and illustrations that will help you understand the laws of physics AND succeed in your course! Available with most new copies of the text is ThomsonNOW for Physics. Save time, learn more, and succeed in the course with this online suite of resources that give you the choices and tools you need to study smarter and get the grade. Receive a personalized study plan based on chapter-specific diagnostic testing to help you pinpoint what you need to know NOW, and interact with a live physics tutor through the exclusive Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING program to help you master the concepts.

Table of Contents

Part I Mechanics 1(489)
Physics and Measurement
2(21)
Motion in One Dimension
23(35)
Vectors
58(18)
Motion in Two Dimensions
76(34)
The Laws of Motion
110(41)
Circular Motion and Other Applications of Newton's Laws
151(31)
Work and Kinetic Energy
182(32)
Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy
214(37)
Linear Momentum and Collisions
251(41)
Rotation of a Rigid Object About a Fixed Axis
292(35)
Rolling Motion and Angular Mementum
327(34)
Static Equilibrium and Elasticity
361(28)
Oscillatory Motion
389(34)
The Law of Gravity
423(35)
Fluid Mechanics
458(31)
Part II Mechanical Waves 489(90)
Wave Motion
490(29)
Sound Waves
519(26)
Superposition and Standing Waves
545(34)
Part III Thermodynamics 579(128)
Temperature
580(22)
Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics
602(38)
The Kinetic Theory of Gases
640(29)
Heat Engines, Entropy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
669(38)
Part IV Electricity and Magnetism 707(398)
Electric Fields
707(36)
Gauss's Law
743(25)
Electric Potential
768(35)
Capacitance and Dielectrics
803(37)
Current and Resistance
840(28)
Direct Current Circuits
868(36)
Magnetic Fields
904(33)
Sources of the Magnetic Field
937(42)
Faraday's Law
979(35)
Inductance
1014(29)
Alternating Current Circuits
1043(32)
Electromagnetic Waves
1075(30)
Part V Light and Optics 1105(140)
The Nature of Light and the Laws of Geometric Optics
1106(33)
Geometric Optics
1139(46)
Interference of Light Waves
1185(26)
Diffraction And Polarization
1211(34)
Part VI Modern Physics 1245(1)
Relativity
1246(43)
Introduction to Quantum Physics
1289(33)
Quantum Mechanics
1322(33)
Atomic Physics
1355(40)
Molecules and Solids
1395(41)
Nuclear Structure
1436(39)
Nuclear Fission and Fusion
1475(36)
Particle Physics and Cosmology
1511
Appendices A.1
Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems A.41
Index I.1

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