Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern physics /
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
Pearson Education,
c2008.
|
| Edition: | 4th ed. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | View in OPAC |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Introduction, measurement, estimating
- Mechanics
- Describing motion
- Kinematics in two or three dimensions
- Dynamics
- Using Newton's laws
- Gravitation and Newton's synthesis
- Work and energy
- Conservation of energy
- Linear momentum
- Rotational motion
- Angular momentum
- Static equilibrium
- Fluids, vibrations, waves, sound
- Fluids
- Oscillations
- Wave motion
- Sound
- Kinetic theory and thermodynamics
- Temperature, thermal expansion, and the ideal gas law
- Kinetic theory of gases
- Heat and the first law of thermodynamics
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Electricity and magnetism
- Electric charge and electric field
- Gauss's law
- Electric potential
- Capacitance, dielectrics, electric energy storage
- Electric currents and resistance
- DC circuits
- Magnetism
- Sources of magnetic field
- Electromagnetic induction and faraday's Law
- Inductance, electromagnetic oscillations
- Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves
- Light
- Lenses and optical instruments
- The wave nature of light
- Diffraction and polarization
- Modern physics
- Special theory of relativity
- Early quantum theory and models of the atom
- Quantum mechanics
- Quantum mechanics of atoms
- Molecules and solids
- Nuclear physics and radioactivity
- Nuclear energy
- Elementary particles
- Astrophysics and cosmology.