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| Motion Near the Surface of the Earth | |
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| Mathematics, the Language of Physics | |
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| Why All of This Is Important | |
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| Making Measurements | |
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| Recording Measurements | |
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| Significant Figures | |
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| Defining Equations | |
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| Scientific Notation | |
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| Coefficients and Exponents | |
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| Multiplying and Dividing in Scientific Notation | |
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| It's About Time, Too! | |
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| A Few Additional Rules to Keep in Mind | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Movement in One Dimension | |
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| It All Starts with Position | |
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| Changes in Movement | |
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| Using Algebra to Calculate Velocity | |
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| Describing Uniform Motion | |
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| Unit Analysis | |
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| Understanding Acceleration | |
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| Describing Uniformly Accelerated Motion | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Introduction to Vectors | |
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| Vectors-Geometry in Motion | |
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| Vectors and Scalars | |
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| Vector Addition | |
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| Subtracting Vectors | |
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| Multiplication in Vector Algebra | |
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| Components of Vectors | |
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| Position and Displacement | |
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| Understanding Velocity | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Motion in Two Dimensions | |
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| The Keys to the Kingdom | |
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| Displacement Revisited | |
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| Motion in the x-y Plane | |
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| Understanding the Velocity of a Boat | |
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| Uniform Circular Motion | |
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| Speed and Velocity in a Circular Path | |
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| Centripetal Acceleration | |
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| So What's the Angle? | |
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| Crankshafts and Merry-Go-Rounds | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| How and Why Things Move | |
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| Forces and Motion | |
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| The Three Laws of Motion | |
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| Pushes and Pulls | |
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| Action and Reaction | |
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| The Basics | |
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| The Vector Nature of Force | |
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| Components of Forces | |
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| Net Force and Uniform Motion | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Free Fall and Gravity | |
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| Uniform Accelerated Motion | |
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| Free Fall and Friction | |
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| Terminal Velocity | |
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| Describing the Motion of a Falling Object | |
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| More on Weight and Mass | |
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| Understanding the Gravitational Field | |
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| Understanding Force Fields | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Projectile Motion | |
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| Early Ideas of Projectiles and Falling Objects | |
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| Instantaneous Velocity | |
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| What Happens When an Object Is Thrown Vertically Upward? | |
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| Two Motions: Uniformly Accelerated (Vertical) and Uniform (Horizontal) | |
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| A Graphical Solution to Projectile Motion | |
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| Launching a Projectile Vertically Upward | |
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| A Baseball from Center Field | |
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| The Hang Time of a Punt | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation | |
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| How Is Force Related to Mass and Distance? | |
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| Simple Harmonic Motion | |
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| Equilibrium and Simple Harmonic Motion in a Spring | |
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| A Simple Pendulum | |
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| The Motion of Heavenly Bodies | |
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| Gravitational Force Between Any Two Bodies | |
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| The Acceleration of Satellites of the Earth | |
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| Measuring the Mass of the Earth | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Work and Energy | |
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| Work and Power | |
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| Work in Motion | |
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| Work and Force | |
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| Calculating Work Using a Horizontal Force | |
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| Calculation of Work Using a Component of the Force | |
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| Calculating Work Using Lifting Force | |
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| Calculating Work Using the Force of Friction | |
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| Simple Machines | |
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| The Inclined Plane | |
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| The Lever | |
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| Work, Power, and Time | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Kinetic Energy | |
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| What Has Kinetic Energy? | |
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| Work and Kinetic Energy | |
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| Motion on an Inclined Plane | |
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| Kinetic Energy of an Object Moving in a Circular Path | |
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| Kinetic Energy of Falling Objects | |
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| Where Does Kinetic Energy Go? | |
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| The Kinetic Energy of a Projectile | |
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| Bernoulli's Principle | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Potential Energy | |
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| When Does an Object Have Potential Energy? | |
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| Work and Potential Energy | |
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| Potential Energy of Objects Above the Earth | |
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| Instantaneous Velocity of a Projectile | |
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| Orbital Velocity | |
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| Transfer of Potential Energy | |
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| Hooke's Law | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Conservation of Energy and Momentum | |
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| How Conservation Laws Work | |
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| The Law of Conservation of Energy | |
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| Impulse and Momentum | |
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| Understanding the Relationship Between Impulse and Momentum | |
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| Conservation of Momentum | |
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| Conserving Momentum | |
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| A Total Momentum of Zero | |
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| Momentum of a Combination | |
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| Head-On Collisions | |
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| Understanding Elasticity | |
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| Understanding Inelasticity | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Heat, Sound, and States of Matter | |
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| Solids, Liquids, and Gases | |
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| Solids | |
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| Liquids | |
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| High-Heel Pressure | |
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| Swimming Pool Pressure | |
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| Gases | |
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| Changing State | |
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| Boyle's Law | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Pressure | |
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| A Brief History of Hydraulics | |
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| A Simple Hydraulic Machine | |
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| Pressure and a Simple Machine | |
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| Liquid Pressure and Depth | |
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| Pressure and Total Force | |
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| Total Force | |
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| Pressure and Buoyant Force | |
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| Gas Pressure and Altitude | |
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| Sipping Liquids Through a Straw | |
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| Air Pressure and Buoyant Force | |
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| How Does a Baseball Curve? | |
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| Pressure and Thermal Energy | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Heat Energy | |
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| Temperature and Thermometers | |
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| The Mystery Behind Heat | |
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| Temperature Scales | |
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| Specific Heat and the Second Law of Thermodynamics | |
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| The Law of Entropy | |
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| Latent Heat of Vaporization and Fusion | |
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| Transfer of Heat | |
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| Transfer of Heat by Conduction | |
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| Transfer of Heat by Convection | |
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| Transfer of Heat by Radiation | |
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| How Will the Universe End? | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Sound Energy | |
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| Vibrating Strings | |
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| Where Does Sound Come From? | |
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| Types of Waves | |
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| Transverse Waves | |
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| Longitudinal Waves | |
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| Properties of Waves | |
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| Newton and the Speed of Sound | |
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| Wavelength and Frequency | |
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| Characteristics of Sound | |
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| Interference and Reflection of Sound | |
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| Sound and Temperature | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| The Anatomy of Atoms, Electricity, and Light | |
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| Atoms, Ions, and Isotopes | |
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| The Structure of the Atom | |
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| Thomson's Atomic Model | |
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| Alpha Particles and Protons | |
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| The Atomic Model of Niels Bohr | |
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| Isotopes and the Same Element | |
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| The Formation of Ions | |
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| Another Source of Ions | |
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| Rutherford's Radioactive Particles | |
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| The Formation of Molecules | |
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| Other Ways to Form Molecules | |
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| Metals Exchange Electons | |
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| Movement of Atoms and Their Components | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Electricity at Rest | |
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| Early Ideas About Electricity | |
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| Static Electricity | |
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| Electric Charge and Atomic Structure | |
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| Conductors and Insulators | |
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| Charging an Object | |
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| Coulomb's Law | |
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| Detectors of Static Charge | |
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| Charge by Induction and Conduction | |
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| Charging by Induction | |
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| Electric Fields and Capacitors | |
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| Generating Much Larger Amounts of Charge | |
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| Charging and Discharging a Capacitor | |
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| Lightning and Charged Rain Clouds | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Electricity in Motion | |
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| Volts, Amps, and Ohms | |
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| Electromagnetism and Amps | |
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| Ohm's Law | |
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| Electric Potential Energy | |
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| Magnetic Fields and Induction | |
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| Potential Difference | |
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| Resistance | |
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| Resistance and the Unit of Opposition | |
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| Components of an Electric Circuit | |
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| Series Circuits | |
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| Parallel Circuits | |
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| Series-Parallel Circuits | |
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| Resistors and Power Rating | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Light as Particles in Motion | |
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| Is Light a Particle or a Wave? | |
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| The Inverse Square Law | |
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| Direction and Speed of Light | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Reflection and Spherical Mirrors | |
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| Refraction | |
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| Mathematics of Snell's Law | |
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| The Critical Angle of Incidence | |
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| Snell's Law for Two Other Media | |
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| The Double Convex Lens or Converging Lens | |
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| Testing the Particle Model | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Light as Waves | |
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| Thomas Young's Experiment | |
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| Wavelengths and Frequency | |
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| Spectral Lines | |
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| Light and Paint | |
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| Light and the Doppler Effect | |
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| The Electromagnetic Spectrum | |
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| Refraction | |
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| Diffraction | |
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| Interference | |
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| Calculating the Wavelength Using an Interference Pattern | |
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| An Interference Pattern of Light | |
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| A Final Word | |
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| Problems for the Budding Rocket Scientist | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Physics Phun Answers | |
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| Solutions to Budding Rocket Scientist Problems | |
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| Index | |