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Genre/Form: | Textbooks |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Raymond A Serway; John W Jewett; Kate Wilson; Wayne Rowlands |
ISBN: | 9780170355513 0170355519 9780170355520 0170355527 9781473757219 1473757215 |
OCLC Number: | 931841480 |
Notes: | First local edition published in 2013. Includes index. |
Description: | 2 volumes ; 28 cm |
Contents: | Volume 1. Part I: Mechanics. 1. Physics and measurement -- 2. Motion in one dimension -- 3. Motion in two dimensions -- 4. Forces and Newton’s laws -- 5. Further applications of Newton’s laws -- Case study 1 Dragging sheep: an Ig Nobel winner, useful physics and easier workplaces -- 6. Work, force and energy -- 7. Conservation of energy -- 8. Linear momentum and collisions -- 9. Rotational motion -- 10. Energy and momentum in rotating systems -- 11. Gravity -- 12. Special relativity -- Case study 2 Geodesy and gravity can tell us about our changing planet -- Part II: Mechanical properties of solids and fluids. 13. Fluid statics -- Case study 3 Measuring time by understanding fluids -- 14. Fluid dynamics -- 15. Solids -- Part III: Oscillations and mechanical waves. 16. Oscillatory motion -- 17. Wave motion -- 18. Superposition and interference -- Case study 4 The alphorn -- Part IV: Thermodynamics. 19. Heat and temperature -- 20. Energy transfer processes and thermodynamics -- 21. The kinetic theory of gases -- 22. The second law of thermodynamics, heat engines and entropy -- Case study 5 Remote sensing the atmosphere. Volume 2. Part V: Electricity and magnetism. 23. Electric fields -- 24. Gauss’s law -- 25. Electric potential -- 26. Energy and capacitance -- 27. Current and resistance -- Case study 6 BSCCO: a high-temperature superconductor with local roots -- 28. Direct-current circuits -- 29. Magnetic fields -- 30. Magnetic forces -- 31. Faraday’s law -- 32. Inductance -- 33. Alternating-current circuits -- 34. Electromagnetic waves -- Case study 7 Accelerator mass spectrometry -- Part VI: Light and optics. 35. The nature of light and the principles of ray optics -- 36. Image formation -- 37. Wave optics -- 38. Diffraction patterns and polarisation -- Case study 8 Fibre optics and the human body -- Part VII: Quantum physics. 39. Quantisation and wave-particle duality -- 40. Introduction to quantum mechanics -- 41. Atomic physics -- 42. Quantum physics of molecules and solids -- 43. Nuclei and radioactivity -- 44. Particle physics -- Case study 9 The discovery of the Higgs boson. |
Responsibility: | [Raymond A] Serway, ]John W] Jewett, [Kate] Wilson, Anna [Wilson], [Wayne] Rowlands. |
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