College physics for AP courses
/ senior contributing authors, Irina Lyublinskaya [and five others]
- 1 online resource (1682 pages) : color illustrations
Includes index.
The nature of science and physics Kinematics Two-dimensional kinematics Dynamics : force and Newton's laws of motion Further applications of Newton's laws : friction, drag, and elasticity Uniform circular motion and gravitation Work, energy, and energy resources Linear momentum and collisions Statics and torque Rotational motion and angular momentum Fluid statics Fluid dynamics and its biological and medical applications Temperature, kinetic theory, and the 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 and DC instruments 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