Understanding physics

Title Statements

Full title :Understanding physics / Karen Cummings [and others].

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wiley
Place of Publication:Hoboken, NJ
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2004.

Notes

"Based on Fundamentals of physics by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, and Jearl Walker."

The Physical Object

Description:xxiii, 1144, 16, 20, 3, 14 pages : : color illustrations ; : 28 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0471370991, 9780471370994
oclc:ocm56448871
LC Classification:QC23.2
Dewey Decimal:530

Measurement -- Motion along a straight line -- Forces and motion along a line -- Vectors -- Forces and motion in two dimensions -- Combined forces -- Translational momentum -- Extended systems -- Kinetic energy and work -- Potential energy and the conservation of energy -- Rotation -- Complex rotations -- Exercises and problems -- Special problems -- Equilibrium and elasticity -- Gravitation -- Fluids -- Oscillations -- Transverse mechanical waves -- Sound waves -- First law of thermodynamics -- Kinetic theory of gases -- Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics -- Electric charge -- Electric fields -- Gauss' law -- Electric potential -- current and resistance -- Circuits -- Capacitance -- Magnetic fields -- Magnetic fields due to currents -- Induction and Maxwell's equations -- Inductors and magnetic materials -- Electromagnetic oscillations and alternating current -- Electromagnetic waves -- Images -- Interference -- Diffraction -- Special relativity -- Appendices: Answers to reading exercises and odd-numbered problems.

Subjects

physics Physique

Writers

Cooney, Patrick J. Cummings, Karen Halliday, David Laws, Priscilla W. Redish, Edward F. Resnick, Robert Sokoloff, David R. Taylor, Edwin F. Thornton, Ronald K. Walker, Jearl