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PHYSICS

Alan Giambattista, Cornell University
Betty Richardson, Cornell University
Robert Richardson, Cornell University

ISBN: 0070648506
Copyright year: 2008

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Table of Contents

Brief Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction 1


PART ONE Mechanics

Chapter 2 Motion Along a Line 23
Chapter 3 Motion in a Plane 55
Chapter 4 Force and Newton’s Laws of Motion 85
Chapter 5 Circular Motion 143
Chapter 6 Conservation of Energy 181
Chapter 7 Linear Momentum 221
Chapter 8 Torque and Angular Momentum 255
Chapter 9 Fluids 309
Chapter 10 Elasticity and Oscillations 349
Chapter 11 Waves 385
Chapter 12 Sound 415


PART TWO Thermal Physics

Chapter 13 Temperature and Ideal Gas 453
Chapter 14 Heat 485
Chapter 15 Thermodynamics 523


PART THREE Electromagnetism

Chapter 16 Electric Forces and Fields 561
Chapter 17 Electric Potential 599
Chapter 18 Electric Current and Circuits 637
Chapter 19 Magnetic Forces and Fields 687
Chapter 20 Electromagnetic Induction 733
Chapter 21 Alternating Current 771


PART FOUR Electromagnetic Waves and Optics

Chapter 22 Electromagnetic Waves 801
Chapter 23 Reflection and Refraction of Light 837
Chapter 24 Optical Instruments 879
Chapter 25 Interference and Diffraction 909


PART FIVE Quantum and Particle Physics and Relativity

Chapter 26 Relativity 953
Chapter 27 Early Quantum Physics and the Photon 983
Chapter 28 Quantum Physics 1015
Chapter 29 Nuclear Physics 1049
Chapter 30 Particle Physics 1089
Appendix A Mathematics Review A-1 Appendix B Table of Selected Nuclides A-15

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