College physics a strategic approach

Building on the research-proven instructional techniques introduced in Knight’s Physics for Scientists and Engineers, College Physics: A Strategic Approach sets a new standard for algebra-based introductory physics—gaining widespread critical acclaim from professors and students alike. The text, sup...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Knight, Randall Dewey, author (author), Jones, Brian, 1960- author, Field, Stuart, 1958- author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Pearson [2015]
Edición:Third, Global edition
Colección:Always Learning
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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Detailed Contents
  • Preface to the Instructor
  • Preface to the Student
  • Real-World Applications
  • Part I Force and Motion
  • OVERVIEW Why Things Change
  • Chapter 1 Representing Motion
  • 1.1 Motion: A First Look
  • 1.2 Position and Time: Putting Numbers on Nature
  • 1.3 Velocity
  • 1.4 A Sense of Scale: Significant Figures, Scientific Notation, and Units
  • 1.5 Vectors and Motion: A First Look
  • 1.6 Where Do We Go from Here?
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 2 Motion in One Dimension
  • 2.1 Describing Motion
  • 2.2 Uniform Motion
  • 2.3 Instantaneous Velocity
  • 2.4 Acceleration
  • 2.5 Motion with Constant Acceleration
  • 2.6 Solving One-Dimensional Motion Problems
  • 2.7 Free Fall
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 3 Vectors and Motion in Two Dimensions 98
  • 3.1 Using Vectors
  • 3.2 Using Vectors on Motion Diagrams
  • 3.3 Coordinate Systems and Vector Components
  • 3.4 Motion on a Ramp
  • 3.5 Relative Motion
  • 3.6 Motion in Two Dimensions: Projectile Motion
  • 3.7 Projectile Motion: Solving Problems
  • 3.8 Motion in Two Dimensions: Circular Motion
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 4 Forces and Newton's Laws of Motion
  • 4.1 Motion and Forces
  • 4.2 A Short Catalog of Forces
  • 4.3 Identifying Forces
  • 4.4 What Do Forces Do?
  • 4.5 Newton's Second Law
  • 4.6 Free-Body Diagrams
  • 4.7 Newton's Third Law
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 5 Applying Newton's Laws
  • 5.1 Equilibrium
  • 5.2 Dynamics and Newton's Second Law
  • 5.3 Mass and Weight
  • 5.4 Normal Forces
  • 5.5 Friction
  • 5.6 Drag
  • 5.7 Interacting Objects
  • 5.8 Ropes and Pulleys
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 6 Circular Motion, Orbits, and Gravity
  • 6.1 Uniform Circular Motion
  • 6.2 Dynamics of Uniform Circular Motion
  • 6.3 Apparent Forces in Circular Motion.
  • 6.4 Circular Orbits and Weightlessness
  • 6.5 Newton's Law of Gravity
  • 6.6 Gravity and Orbits
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 7 Rotational Motion
  • 7.1 Describing Circular and Rotational Motion
  • 7.2 The Rotation of a Rigid Body
  • 7.3 Torque
  • 7.4 Gravitational Torque and the enter of Gravity
  • 7.5 Rotational Dynamics and Moment of Inertia 240
  • 7.6 Using Newton's Second Law for Rotation
  • 7.7 Rolling Motion
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 8 Equilibrium and Elasticity
  • 8.1 Torque and Static Equilibrium
  • 8.2 Stability and Balance
  • 8.3 Springs and Hooke's Law
  • 8.4 Stretching and Compressing Materials
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Part I Summary Force and Motion
  • One Step Beyond Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe
  • Part I Problems
  • Part II Conservation Laws
  • OVERVIEW Why Some Things Stay the Same
  • Chapter 9 Momentum
  • 9.1 Impulse
  • 9.2 Momentum and the Impulse-Momentum Theorem
  • 9.3 Solving Impulse and Momentum Problems
  • 9.4 Conservation of Momentum
  • 9.5 Inelastic Collisions
  • 9.6 Momentum and Collisions in Two Dimensions
  • 9.7 Angular Momentum
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 10 Energy and Work
  • 10.1 The Basic Energy Model
  • 10.2 Work
  • 10.3 Kinetic Energy
  • 10.4 Potential Energy
  • 10.5 Thermal Energy
  • 10.6 Using the Law of Conservation of Energy
  • 10.7 Energy in Collisions
  • 10.8 Power
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 11 Using Energy
  • 11.1 Transforming Energy
  • 11.2 Energy in the Body
  • 11.3 Temperature, Thermal Energy, and Heat
  • 11.4 The First Law of Thermodynamics
  • 11.5 Heat Engines
  • 11.6 Heat Pumps, Refrigerators, and Air Conditioners
  • 11.7 Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • 11.8 Systems, Energy, and Entropy
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Part II Summary Conservation Laws.
  • ONE STEP BEYOND Order Out of Chaos
  • Part II Problems
  • Part III Properties of Matter
  • OVERVIEW Beyond the Particle Model
  • Chapter 12 Thermal Properties of Matter
  • 12.1 The Atomic Model of Matter
  • 12.2 The Atomic Model of an Ideal Gas
  • 12.3 Ideal-Gases Processes
  • 12.4 Thermal Expansion
  • 12.5 Specific Heat and Heat of Transformation
  • 12.6 Calorimetry
  • 12.7 Specific Heats of Gases
  • 12.8 Heat Transfer
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 13 Fluids
  • 13.1 Fluids and Density
  • 13.2 Pressure
  • 13.3 Measuring and Using Pressure
  • 13.4 Buoyancy
  • 13.5 Fluids in Motion
  • 13.6 Fluid Dynamics
  • 13.7 Viscosity and Poiseuille's Equation
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Part III Summary Properties of Matter
  • ONE STEP BEYOND Size and Life
  • PART III PROBLEMS
  • Part IV Oscillations and Waves
  • OVERVIEW Motion That Repeats Again and Again
  • Chapter 14 Oscillations
  • 14.1 Equilibrium and Oscillation
  • 14.2 Linear Restoring Forces and Simple Harmonic Motion
  • 14.3 Describing Simple Harmonic Motion
  • 14.4 Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
  • 14.5 Pendulum Motion
  • 14.6 Damped Oscillations
  • 14.7 Driven Oscillations and Resonance
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 15 Traveling Waves and Sound
  • 15.1 The Wave Model
  • 15.2 Traveling Waves
  • 15.3 Graphical and Mathematical Descriptions of Waves
  • 15.4 Sound and Light Waves
  • 15.5 Energy and Intensity
  • 15.6 Loudness of Sound
  • 15.7 The Doppler Effect and Shock Waves
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 16 Superposition and Standing Waves
  • 16.1 The Principle of Superposition
  • 16.2 Standing Waves
  • 16.3 Standing Waves on a String
  • 16.4 Standing Sound Waves
  • 16.5 Speech and Hearing
  • 16.6 The Interference of Waves from Two Sources
  • 16.7 Beats
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Part IV Summary Oscillations and Waves.
  • ONE STEP BEYOND Waves in the Earth and the Ocean
  • PART IV PROBLEMS
  • Part V Optics
  • OVERVIEW Light is a Wave
  • Chapter 17 Wave Optics
  • 17.1 What Is Light?
  • 17.2 The Interference of Light
  • 17.3 The Diffraction Grating
  • 17.4 Thin-Film Interference
  • 17.5 Single-Slit Diffraction
  • 17.6 Circular-Aperture Diffraction
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 18 Ray Optics
  • 18.1 The Ray Model of Light
  • 18.2 Reflection
  • 18.3 Refraction
  • 18.4 Image Formation by Refraction
  • 18.5 Thin Lenses: Ray Tracing
  • 18.6 Image Formation with Spherical Mirrors
  • 18.7 The Thin-Lens Equation
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 19 Optical Instruments
  • 19.1 The Camera
  • 19.2 The Human Eye
  • 19.3 The Magnifier
  • 19.4 The Microscope
  • 19.5 The Telescope
  • 19.6 Color and Dispersion
  • 19.7 Resolution of Optical Instruments
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Part V Summary Optics
  • ONE STEP BEYOND Scanning Confocal Microscopy
  • PART V PROBLEMS
  • Part VI Electricity and Magnetism
  • OVERVIEW Charges, Currents, and Fields
  • Chapter 20 Electric Fields and Forces
  • 20.1 Charges and Forces
  • 20.2 Charges, Atoms, and Molecules
  • 20.3 Coulomb's Law
  • 20.4 The Concept of the Electric Field
  • 20.5 Applications of the Electric Field
  • 20.6 Conductors and Electric Fields
  • 20.7 Forces and Torques in Electric Fields
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 21 Electrical Potential
  • 21.1 Electric Potential Energy and the Electric Potential
  • 21.2 Sources of Electric Potential
  • 21.3 Electric Potential and Conservation of Energy
  • 21.4 Calculating the Electric Potential
  • 21.5 Connecting Potential and Field
  • 21.6 The Electrocardiogram
  • 21.7 Capacitance and Capacitors
  • 21.8 Energy and Capacitors
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 22 Current and Resistance
  • 22.1 A Model of Current.
  • 22.2 Defining and Describing Current
  • 22.3 Batteries and emf
  • 22.4 Connecting Potential and Current
  • 22.5 Ohm's Law and Resistor Circuits
  • 22.6 Energy and Power
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 23 Circuits
  • 23.1 Circuit Elements and Diagrams
  • 23.2 Kirchhoff's Laws
  • 23.3 Series and Parallel Circuits
  • 23.4 Measuring Voltage and Current
  • 23.5 More Complex Circuits
  • 23.6 Capacitors in Parallel and Series
  • 23.7 RC Circuits
  • 23.8 Electricity in the Nervous System
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 24 Magnetic Fields and Forces
  • 24.1 Magnetism
  • 24.2 The Magnetic Field
  • 24.3 Electric Currents Also Create Magnetic Fields
  • 24.4 Calculating the Magnetic Field Due to a Current
  • 24.5 Magnetic Fields Exert Forces on Moving Charges
  • 24.6 Magnetic Fields Exert Forces on Currents
  • 24.7 Magnetic Fields Exert Torques on Dipoles
  • 24.8 Magnets and Magnetic Materials
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 25 Electromagnetic Induction and Electromagnetic Waves
  • 25.1 Induced Currents
  • 25.2 Motional emf
  • 25.3 Magnetic Flux
  • 25.4 Faraday's Law
  • 25.5 Electromagnetic Waves
  • 25.6 The Photon Model of Electromagnetic Waves
  • 25.7 The Electromagnetic Spectrum
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Chapter 26 AC Electricity
  • 26.1 Alternating Current
  • 26.2 AC Electricity and Transformers
  • 26.3 Household Electricity
  • 26.4 Biological Effects and Electrical Safety
  • 26.5 Capacitor Circuits
  • 26.6 Inductors and Inductor Circuits
  • 26.7 Oscillation Circuits
  • Summary
  • Questions and Problems
  • Part VI Summary Electricity and Magnetism
  • ONE STEP BEYOND The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming
  • PART VI PROBLEMS
  • Part VII Modern Physics
  • OVERVIEW New Ways of Looking at the World
  • Chapter 27 Relativity
  • 27.1 Relativity: What's It All About?
  • 27.2 Galilean Relativity.
  • 27.3 Einstein's Principle of Relativity.