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Preface | |
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Additional Notes, Primarily for the Instructor | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Atoms to Stars: Scales of Size, Energy, and Force | |
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The microbe and the elephant: the hierarchy of size | |
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Energy and stability | |
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The four forces | |
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Atoms and the periodic table of elements | |
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Seeing atoms: the scanning tunneling microscope | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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Some Tools of the Trade: Numbers, Quantities, and Units | |
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The language of physics: symbols and formulas | |
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Once more the four forces, this time quantitatively | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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There Is No Rest: Describing Motion | |
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Getting started: simplification and approximation: models | |
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Keep your eye on the ball: where is it and where is it going? | |
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The mathematics of change | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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Forces and Motion: Newton's Framework | |
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Newton's laws of motion | |
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Adding forces: vectors | |
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Momentum and its conservation: action, reaction, and Newton's third law | |
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One more motion that is everywhere: rotation | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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Laws and Their Limits: The Organization of Scientific Knowledge | |
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How do we know? Reality and interpretation | |
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The Newtonian model and its limitations | |
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Mechanics and beyond | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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Energy and Its Conservation | |
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Work: not always what you think | |
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Energy of motion: kinetic energy | |
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Energy of position: potential energy | |
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Friction and the loss of mechanical energy | |
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Internal energy and the law of conservation of energy | |
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Work and energy revisited | |
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Power: not what the power company sells | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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Materials and Models | |
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Ideal systems and models: the ideal gas | |
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Other systems: adding pieces from reality | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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Electricity: It Is Everywhere | |
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The electric force | |
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The electric field | |
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Field lines and flux | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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More on Electricity: From Force to Energy, from Field to Potential | |
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Electric potential energy and electric potential | |
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Energy transformations and electric circuits | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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Magnetism: Electricity's Traveling Companion | |
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Again-force, field, and motion | |
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The electron: an old friend turns out to be the elemental magnet | |
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Generating electricity: motional emf and Faraday's law | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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Waves: Mechanical and Electromagnetic | |
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What is a wave? | |
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What can waves do? Describing waves and their properties | |
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Sound and musical scales | |
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Maxwell's great contribution: electromagnetic waves | |
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Observing interference of light | |
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Reflection and refraction | |
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Where Einstein started: electromagnetism and relativity | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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Quantum Physics | |
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The �old� quantum physics | |
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The new synthesis | |
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Order in the universe: the elements | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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The Nucleus: Heart of the Atom | |
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Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, and the beginning of nuclear physics | |
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What is the universe made of? The stable nuclei and their binding energy | |
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Radioactivity | |
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Biological effects | |
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The nuclear force | |
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Observing radioactive radiations | |
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Nuclear reactions | |
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Particles | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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Energy in Civilization | |
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The flow of energy | |
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Electric energy: what is it and what does it do for us? | |
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DC and AC: transformer and generator | |
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Energy storage | |
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Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics: the limits of energy transformation | |
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Our addiction to fossil fuels | |
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Other sources of energy | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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Atomic Physics Pays Off: Solar Cells, Transistors, and the Silicon Age | |
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The real solid: metals, insulators, and semiconductors | |
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Tiny changes and vast consequences: impurities in semiconductors | |
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The transistor and the information revolution | |
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Summary | |
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Review activities and problems | |
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There Is No End | |
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Bibliography | |
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Some Constants, Astronomical Quantities, and Masses | |
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Index | |