College Physics

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Houston, Texas: OpenStax College, 2013 - 1268 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1-938168-00-0This book is based on the teaching and research experience of numerous physicists and influenced by a strong recollection of their own struggles as students. After reading this book, we hope you see that physics is visible everywhere. Applications range from driving a car to launching a rocket, from a skater whirling on ice to a neutron star spinning in space, and from taking your temperature to taking a chest X-ray.Contents: Introduction: the nature of science and physics Kinematics Two-Dimensional kinematics Dynamics: Force and Newtons laws of motion Further application of Newtons laws: friction, drag and elasticity Uniform circular motion and gravitation Work, energy and energy resources Linear momentum and collision Statics and torque Rotational motion and angular momentum Fluid statics Fluid dynamics and its biological and medical applications Temperature, kinetic theory and gas laws Heat and heat transfer methods Thermodynamics Oscillatory motion and waves Physics of hearing Electric charge and electric field Electric potential and electric field Electric current, resistance, and Ohm's law Circuits, bioelectricity and DC measurements Magnetism Electromagnetic induction, AC circuits and electrical technologies Electromagnetic waves Geometric optics Vision and optical instruments Wave optics Special relativity Introduction to quantum physics Atomic physics Radioactivity and nuclear physics Medical applications of nuclear physics Particle physics Frontiers of physics

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