Physics principles with applications

Elegant, engaging, exacting, and concise, Giancoli's Physics: Principles with Applications, Seventh Edition, helps students view the world through eyes that know physics.   Giancoli's text is a trusted classic, known for its elegant writing, clear presentation, and quality of content. Us...

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Otros Autores: Giancoli, Douglas C., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Harlow, England : Pearson [2016]
Edición:Global edition
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Applications List
  • Preface
  • Dedication
  • To Students
  • Use of color
  • Chapter 1: Introduction, Measurement, Estimating
  • 1-1 The Nature of Science
  • 1-2 Physics and its Relation to Other Fields
  • 1-3 Models, Theories, and Laws
  • 1-4 Measurement and Uncertainty
  • Significant Figures
  • Uncertainty
  • Significant Figures
  • Scientific Notation
  • Percent Uncertainty vs. Significant Figures
  • Approximations
  • Accuracy vs. Precision
  • 1-5 Units, Standards, and the SI System
  • Length
  • Time
  • Mass
  • Unit Prefixes
  • Systems of Units
  • Base vs. Derived Quantities
  • 1-6 Converting Units
  • 1-7 Order of Magnitude: Rapid Estimating
  • A Harder Example-But Powerful
  • 1-8 Dimensions and Dimensional Analysis
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • MisConceptual Questions
  • Problems
  • General Problems
  • Search and Learn
  • Chapter 2: Describing Motion: Kinematics in One Dimension
  • 2-1 Reference Frames and Displacement
  • 2-2 Average Velocity
  • 2-3 Instantaneous Velocity
  • 2-4 Acceleration
  • Deceleration
  • 2-5 Motion at Constant Acceleration
  • 2-6 Solving Problems
  • 2-7 Freely Falling Objects
  • Additional Example-Using the Quadratic Formula
  • 2-8 Graphical Analysis of Linear Motion
  • Velocity as Slope
  • Slope and Acceleration
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • MisConceptual Questions
  • Problems
  • General Problems
  • Search and Learn
  • Chapter 3: Kinematics in Two Dimensions
  • Vectors
  • 3-1 Vectors and Scalars
  • 3-2 Addition of Vectors-Graphical Methods
  • 3-3 Subtraction of Vectors, and Multiplication of a Vector by a Scalar
  • 3-4 Adding Vectors by Components
  • Components
  • Adding Vectors
  • 3-5 Projectile Motion
  • 3-6 Solving Projectile Motion Problems
  • Level Horizontal Range
  • 3-7 Projectile Motion Is Parabolic
  • 3-8 Relative Velocity
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • MisConceptual Questions
  • Problems.
  • General Problems
  • Search and Learn
  • Chapter 4: Dynamics: Newton's Laws of Motion
  • 4-1 Force
  • 4-2 Newton's First Law of Motion
  • Inertial Reference Frames
  • 4-3 Mass
  • 4-4 Newton's Second Law of Motion
  • 4-5 Newton's Third Law of Motion
  • 4-6 Weight-the Force of Gravity
  • and the Normal Force
  • 4-7 Solving Problems with Newton's Laws: Free-Body Diagrams
  • Tension in a Flexible Cord
  • 4-8 Problems Involving Friction, Inclines
  • Friction
  • Inclines
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • MisConceptual Questions
  • Problems
  • General Problems
  • Search and Learn
  • Chapter 5: Circular Motion
  • Gravitation
  • 5-1 Kinematics of Uniform Circular Motion
  • 5-2 Dynamics of Uniform Circular Motion
  • 5-3 Highway Curves: Banked and Unbanked
  • 5-4 Non uniform Circular Motion
  • 5-5 Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
  • 5-6 Gravity Near the Earth's Surface
  • 5-7 Satellites and "Weightlessness"
  • Satellite Motion
  • Weightlessness
  • 5-8 Planets, Kepler's Laws, and Newton's Synthesis
  • Kepler's Laws
  • Kepler's Third Law Derived, Sun's Mass, Perturbations
  • Other Centers for Kepler's Laws
  • Distant Planetary Systems
  • Newton's Synthesis
  • Sun/Earth Reference Frames
  • 5-9 Moon Rises an Hour Later Each Day
  • 5-10 Types of Forces in Nature
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • MisConceptual Questions
  • Problems
  • General Problems
  • Search and Learn
  • Chapter 6: Work and Energy
  • 6-1 Work Done by a Constant Force
  • 6-2 Work Done by a Varying Force
  • 6-3 Kinetic Energy, and the Work-Energy Principle
  • 6-4 Potential Energy
  • Gravitational Potential Energy
  • Potential Energy Defined in General
  • Potential Energy of Elastic Spring
  • Potential Energy as Stored Energy
  • 6-5 Conservative and Nonconservative Forces
  • Work-Energy Extended
  • 6-6 Mechanical Energy and Its Conservation
  • 6-7 Problem Solving Using Conservation of Mechanical Energy.
  • 6-8 Other Forms of Energy and Energy Transformations
  • The Law of Conservation of Energy
  • 6-9 Energy Conservation with Dissipative Forces: Solving Problems
  • Work-Energy versus Energy Conservation
  • 6-10 Power
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • MisConceptual Questions
  • Problems
  • General Problems
  • Search and Learn
  • Chapter 7: Linear Momentum
  • 7-1 Momentum and Its Relation to Force
  • 7-2 Conservation of Momentum
  • 7-3 Collisions and Impulse
  • 7-4 Conservation of Energy and Momentum in Collisions
  • 7-5 Elastic Collisions in One Dimension
  • 7-6 Inelastic Collisions
  • 7-7 Collisions in Two Dimensions
  • 7-8 Center of Mass (CM)
  • 7-9 CM for the Human Body
  • 7-10 CM and Translational Motion
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • MisConceptual Questions
  • Problems
  • General Problems
  • Search and Learn
  • Chapter 8: Rotational Motion
  • 8-1 Angular Quantities
  • 8-2 Constant Angular Acceleration
  • 8-3 Rolling Motion (Without Slipping)
  • 8-4 Torque
  • Forces that Act to Tilt the Axis
  • 8-5 Rotational Dynamics
  • Torque and Rotational Inertia
  • 8-6 Solving Problems in Rotational Dynamics
  • 8-7 Rotational Kinetic Energy
  • Work Done by Torque
  • 8-8 Angular Momentum and Its Conservation
  • 8-9 Vector Nature of Angular Quantities
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • MisConceptual Questions
  • Problems
  • General Problems
  • Search and Learn
  • Chapter 9: Static Equilibrium
  • Elasticity and Fracture
  • 9-1 The Conditions for Equilibrium
  • The First Condition for Equilibrium
  • The Second Condition for Equilibrium
  • 9-2 Solving Statics Problems
  • A More Difficult Example-The Ladder
  • 9-3 Applications to Muscles and Joints
  • 9-4 Stability and Balance
  • 9-5 Elasticity
  • Stress and Strain
  • Elasticity and Hooke's Law
  • Young's Modulus
  • Stress and Strain
  • Tension, Compression, and Shear Stress
  • Volume Change-Bulk Modulus
  • 9-6 Fracture.
  • 9-7 Spanning a Space: Arches and Domes
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • MisConceptual Questions
  • Problems
  • General Problems
  • Search and Learn
  • Chapter 10: Fluids
  • 10-1 Phases of Matter
  • 10-2 Density and Specific Gravity
  • 10-3 Pressure in Fluids
  • 10-4 Atmospheric Pressure and Gauge Pressure
  • Atmospheric Pressure
  • Gauge Pressure
  • 10-5 Pascal's Principle
  • 10-6 Measurement of Pressure
  • Gauges and the Barometer
  • 10-7 Buoyancy and Archimedes' Principle
  • 10-8 Fluids in Motion
  • Flow Rate and the Equation of Continuity
  • 10-9 Bernoulli's Equation
  • 10-10 Applications of Bernoulli's Principle: Torricelli, Airplanes, Baseballs, Blood Flow
  • Airplane Wings and Dynamic Lift
  • Sailboats
  • Baseball Curve
  • Lack of Blood to the Brain-TIA
  • Other Applications
  • 10-11 Viscosity
  • 10-12 Flow in Tubes: Poiseuille's Equation, Blood Flow
  • 10-13 Surface Tension and Capillarity
  • Capillarity
  • 10-14 Pumps, and the Heart
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • MisConceptual Questions
  • Problems
  • General Problems
  • Search and Learn
  • Chapter 11: Oscillations and Waves
  • 11-1 Simple Harmonic Motion-Spring Oscillations
  • 11-2 Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
  • 11-3 The Period and Sinusoidal Nature of SHM
  • Period and Frequency-Derivation
  • Position as a Function of Time
  • Sinusoidal Motion
  • Velocity and Acceleration as Functions of Time
  • 11-4 The Simple Pendulum
  • 11-5 Damped Harmonic Motion
  • 11-6 Forced Oscillations
  • Resonance
  • 11-7 Wave Motion
  • 11-8 Types of Waves and Their Speeds: Transverse and Longitudinal
  • Speed of Transverse Waves
  • Speed of Longitudinal Waves
  • Other Waves
  • 11-9 Energy Transported by Waves
  • Intensity Related to Amplitude and Frequency
  • 11-10 Reflection and Transmission of Waves
  • 11-11 Interference
  • Principle of Superposition
  • 11-12 Standing Waves
  • Resonance
  • 11-13 Refraction.
  • 11-14 Diffraction
  • 11-15 Mathematical Representation of a Traveling Wave
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • MisConceptual Questions
  • Problems
  • General Problems
  • Search and Learn
  • Chapter 12: Sound
  • 12-1 Characteristics of Sound
  • 12-2 Intensity of Sound: Decibels
  • Sound Level
  • Intensity Related to Amplitude
  • 12-3 The Ear and Its Response
  • Loudness
  • The Ear's Response
  • 12-4 Sources of Sound: Vibrating Strings and Air Columns
  • Stringed Instruments
  • Wind Instruments
  • 12-5 Quality of Sound, and Noise
  • Superposition
  • 12-6 Interference of Sound Waves
  • Beats
  • Interference in Space
  • Beats-Interference in Time
  • 12-7 Doppler Effect
  • Doppler Effect for Light
  • 12-8 Shock Waves and the Sonic Boom
  • 12-9 Applications: Sonar, Ultrasound, and Medical Imaging
  • Sonar
  • Ultrasound Medical Imaging
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • MisConceptual Questions
  • Problems
  • General Problems
  • Search and Learn
  • Chapter 13: Temperature and Kinetic Theory
  • 13-1 Atomic Theory of Matter
  • 13-2 Temperature and Thermometers
  • Temperature Scales
  • Standard Temperature Scale
  • 13-3 Thermal Equilibrium and the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
  • The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
  • 13-4 Thermal Expansion
  • Linear Expansion
  • Volume Expansion
  • Anomalous Behavior of Water Below 4°C
  • Thermal Stresses
  • 13-5 The Gas Laws and Absolute Temperature
  • 13-6 The Ideal Gas Law
  • 13-7 Problem Solving with the Ideal Gas Law
  • 13-8 Ideal Gas Law in Terms of Molecules: Avogadro's Number
  • 13-9 Kinetic Theory and the Molecular Interpretation of Temperature
  • Kinetic Energy Near Absolute Zero
  • 13-10 Distribution of Molecular Speeds
  • 13-11 Real Gases and Changes of Phase
  • 13-12 Vapor Pressure and Humidity
  • Evaporation
  • Vapor Pressure
  • Boiling
  • Partial Pressure and Humidity
  • 13-13 Diffusion
  • Summary
  • Questions.
  • MisConceptual Questions.