Contents in Detail
Conceptual Physics Photo Album
To the Student
To the Instructor
Acknowledgments
About Science
PART ONE　Mechanics
2 Newton's First Law of Motion-lnertia
3 Linear Motion
4　Newton's Second Law of Motion
5 Newton's Third Law of Motion
6 Momentum
7 Energy
8 Rotational Motion
9 Gravity
10 Projectile and Satellite Motion
PART TWO　Properties of Matter
11 The Atomic Nature of Matter
12 Solids
13 Liquids
14 Gases and Plasmas
PART THREE　Heat
15 Temperature, Heat, and Expansion
16 Heat Transfer
17 Change of Phase
18 Thermodynamics
PAPT FOUR　Sound 361
19 Vibrations and Waves
20 Sound
21 Musical Sounds
PAPT FIVE　Electricity and Magnetism
22 Electrostatics
23 Electric Current
24 Magnetism
25 Electromagnetic Induction
PART SIX　Light
26 Properties of Light
27 Color
28 Reflection and Refraction
29 Light Waves
30 Light Emission
31 Light Quanta
PART SEVEN　Atomic and Nuclear Physics
32 The Atom and the Quantum
33 The Atomic Nucleus and Radioactivity
34 Nuclear Fission and Fusion
PART EIGHT　Relativity
35 Special Theory of Relativity
36 General Theory of Relativity
Epilogue
Appendix A Systems of Measurement
Appendix B More About Motion
Appendix C Graphing
Appendix D More About Vectors
Appendix E Exponential Growth and Doubling Time
Glossary
Photo Credits
Index
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