Understanding physics

[This] text is designed to work with learning strategies suck as microcomputer-based labs and interactive lectures that are increasingly being used in physics instruction. In doing so, [the text] incorporates new approaches based upon Physics Education Research (PER), aligns with courses that use computer-based laboratory tools, and supports Activity-Based Physics in lectures, labs and recitations.-Back cover.

Originally published: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, ©2004.

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

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 nad 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.