Conceptual physics

The image on the cover shows an array of solar panels under a beautiful blue sky. With each edition of Conceptual Physics, Paul Hewitt has always sought to delight students with the insight that an understanding of physics will help them see physics all about them in the world and in the technology they use everyday. The Twelfth Edition will delight students with informative and fun Hewitt-Drew-It screencasts, udated content, applications in the text, and new learning activities in MasteringPhysics.

Includes index.

1. About Science -- I. Mechanics -- 2. Newton's First Law of Motion: Inertia -- 3. Linear Motion -- 4. Newton's Second Law of Motion: Force and Acceleration -- 5. Newton's Third Law of Motion: Action and Reaction -- 6. Momentum -- 7. Energy -- 8. Rotational Motion -- 9. Gravity -- 10. Projectile and Satellite Motion -- II. Properties Of Matter -- 11. Atomic Nature of Matter -- 12. Solids -- 13. Liquids -- 14. Gases and Plasmas -- III. Heat -- 15. Temperature, Heat and Expansion -- 16. Heat Transfer -- 17. Change of Phase -- 18. Thermodynamics -- IV. Sound -- 19. Vibrations and Waves -- 20. Sound -- 21. Musical Sounds -- V. Electricity And Magnetism -- 22. Electrostatics -- 23. Electric Current -- 24. Magnetism -- 25. Electromagnetic Induction -- VI. Light -- 26. Properties of Light -- 27. Color -- 28. Reflection and Refraction -- 29. Light Waves -- 30. Light Emission -- 31. Light Quanta -- VII. Atomic And Nuclear Physics -- 32. The Atom and the Quantum -- 33. Atomic Nucleus and Radioactivity -- 34. Nuclear Fission and Fusion -- VIII. Relativity -- 35. Special Theory of Relativity -- 36. General Theory of Relativity.