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| Measurement, Models, and Analysis | |
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| Measurements and Models | |
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| Back to the Future: Echoes of the Big Bang | |
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| Units and Standards of Measurement | |
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| Unit Conversions | |
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| Measurements, Calculations, and Uncertainties | |
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| Estimates and Order-of-Magnitude Calculations | |
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| How to Study Physics | |
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| Problem Solving | |
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| Motion in One Dimension | |
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| Reference Frames, Coordinate Systems, and Displacement | |
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| Average Speed and Average Velocity | |
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| Graphical Interpretation of Velocity | |
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| Instantaneous Velocity | |
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| Acceleration | |
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| Motion with Constant Acceleration | |
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| Galileo and Free Fall | |
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| Back to the Future: Galileo and Experimental Science | |
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| Solving Quadratic Equations | |
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| Motion in Two Dimensions | |
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| Vectors | |
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| Addition of Vectors | |
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| Resolution of Vectors | |
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| Relative Velocity in One Dimension | |
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| Relative Velocity in Two Dimensions | |
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| Kinematics in Two Dimensions | |
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| Projectile Motion | |
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| Review of Trigonometry | |
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| Force and Motion | |
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| Events Leading to Newton's Principia | |
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| What Is a Force? | |
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| Back to the Future: The Writing of the Principia | |
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| Newton's First Law--Inertia | |
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| Newton's Second Law | |
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| Weight | |
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| Newton's Third Law | |
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| Some Applications of Newton's Laws | |
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| Friction | |
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| Physics in Practice: The Friction of Automobile Tires | |
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| Static Equilibrium | |
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| The Laws of Motion as a Whole | |
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| Solving Simultaneous Equations | |
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| Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation | |
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| Uniform Circular Motion | |
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| Force Needed for Circular Motion | |
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| Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion | |
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| The Law of Universal Gravitation | |
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| Back to the Future: Johannes Kepler | |
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| The Universal Gravitational Constant G | |
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| Gravitational Field Strength | |
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| Back to the Future: Henry Cavendish and the Density of the Earth | |
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| Work and Energy | |
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| Work | |
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| Work Done by a Varying Force | |
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| Energy | |
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| Kinetic Energy | |
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| Potential Energy | |
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| Conservation of Mechanical Energy | |
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| Energy Conservation with Nonconservative Forces | |
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| Power | |
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| Physics in Practice: Human Energy | |
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| Linear Momentum | |
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| Linear Momentum | |
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| Impulse | |
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| Newton's Laws and the Conservation of Momentum | |
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| Conservation of Momentum in One-Dimensional Collisions | |
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| Conservation of Momentum in Two- and Three-Dimensional Collisions | |
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| Changing Mass | |
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| Applying the Conservation Laws | |
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| Definition of Elastic Collisions | |
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| Elastic Collisions in One Dimension | |
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| Elastic Collisions in Two Dimensions | |
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| General Form of Gravitational Potential Energy | |
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| Physics in Practice: Symmetry and Conservation Laws | |
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| Motion in a Gravitational Potential | |
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| Escape Speed | |
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| Rigid Bodies and Rotational Motion | |
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| Angular Velocity and Angular Acceleration | |
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| Rotational Kinematics | |
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| Torque | |
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| Static Equilibrium | |
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| Elasticity: Stress and Strain | |
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| Physics in Practice: Bridges | |
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| Torque and Moment of Inertia | |
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| Angular Momentum | |
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| Conservation of Angular Momentum | |
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| Rotational Kinetic Energy | |
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| Conservation of Energy: Translations and Rotations | |
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| Physics in Practice: The Earth, the Moon, and the Tides | |
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| Fluids | |
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| Hydrostatic Pressure | |
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| Pascal's Principle | |
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| Archimedes' Principle | |
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| Physics in Practice: Measuring Blood Pressure | |
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| Surface Tension | |
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| Fluid Flow: Streamlines and the Equation of Continuity | |
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| Physics in Practice: Surface Tension and the Lungs | |
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| Bernoulli's Equation | |
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| Viscosity and Poiseuille's Law | |
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| Stokes's Law and Terminal Speed | |
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| Physics in Practice: How Airplanes Fly | |
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| Turbulent Flow | |
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| Thermal Physics | |
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| Temperature and States of Matter | |
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| Thermometry | |
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| Back to the Future: Fahrenheit's Thermometer | |
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| Thermal Expansion | |
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| The Mechanical Equivalent of Heat | |
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| Calorimetry | |
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| Change of Phase | |
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| Heat Transfer | |
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| Gas Laws and Kinetic Theory | |
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| The Pressure of Air | |
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| Boyle's Law | |
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| Back to the Future: Gas Laws and Balloons | |
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| The Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac | |
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| The Ideal Gas Law | |
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| The Kinetic Theory of Gases | |
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| The Kinetic-Theory Definition of Temperature | |
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| Internal Energy of an Ideal Gas | |
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| The Barometric Formula and the Distribution of Molecular Speeds | |
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| The Exponential Function | |
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| Thermodynamics | |
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| Thermal Equilibrium | |
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| The First Law of Thermodynamics | |
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| The Carnot Cycle and the Efficiency of Engines | |
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| Physics in Practice: Gasoline Engines | |
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| Refrigerators and Heat Pumps | |
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| The Second Law of Thermodynamics | |
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| Entropy and the Second Law | |
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| Energy and Thermal Pollution | |
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| Periodic Motion | |
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| Hooke's Law | |
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| The Simple Harmonic Oscillator | |
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| Energy of a Harmonic Oscillator | |
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| Period of a Harmonic Oscillator | |
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| The Simple Pendulum | |
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| Damped Harmonic Motion | |
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| Physics in Practice: Walking and Running | |
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| Forced Harmonic Motion and Resonance | |
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| Waves and Sound | |
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| Pulses on a Rope | |
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| Harmonic Waves | |
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| Energy and Information Transfer by Waves | |
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| Sound Waves | |
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| Measuring Sound Levels | |
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| The Doppler Effect | |
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| Physics in Practice: Room Acoustics | |
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| Formation of a Shock Wave | |
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| Reflection of a Wave Pulse | |
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| Standing Waves on a String | |
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| Waves in a Vibrating Column of Air | |
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| Beats | |
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| Physics in Practice: Hearing and the Ear | |
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| Electric Charge and Electric Field | |
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| Electric Charge | |
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| Coulomb's Law | |
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| Superposition of Electric Forces | |
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| The Electric Field | |
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| Superposition of Electric Fields | |
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| Electric Flux and Gauss's Law | |
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| A Quantitative Approach to Gauss's Law | |
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| The Electric Dipole | |
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| Physics in Practice: Dipoles and Microwave Ovens | |
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| Electric Potential and Capacitance | |
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| Electric Potential | |
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| The Van de Graaff Electrostatic Generator | |
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| The Electron Volt | |
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| Equipotential Surfaces | |
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| Back to the Future: The Leyden Jar and Franklin's Kite | |
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| Capacitors | |
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| The Parallel-Plate Capacitor | |
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| Electric Field of a Parallel-Plate Capacitor | |
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| Dielectrics | |
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| Energy Storage in a Capacitor | |
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| Electric Current and Resistance | |
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| Electric Current and Electromotive Force | |
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| Electric Resistance and Ohm's Law | |
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| Resistivity | |
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| Power and Energy in Electric Circuits | |
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| Physics in Practice: Superconductivity | |
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| Short Circuits and Open Circuits | |
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| Kirchhoff's Rules and Simple Resistive Circuits | |
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| Applications of Kirchhoff's Rules | |
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| Capacitors in Combination | |
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| Internal Resistance of a Battery | |
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| Home Power Distribution | |
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| Physics in Practice: Electric Shock | |
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| Magnetism | |
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| Magnets and Magnetic Fields | |
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| Oersted's Discovery: Electric Current Produces Magnetism | |
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| Physics in Practice: Magnetic Resonance Imaging | |
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| Magnetic Forces on Electric Currents | |
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| Magnetic Forces on Moving Charged Particles | |
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| The Cyclotron | |
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| Magnetic Field Due to a Current-Carrying Wire | |
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| Torque on a Current Loop | |
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| Galvanometers, Ammeters, and Voltmeters | |
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| Ampere's Law | |
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| Magnetic Materials | |
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| Electromagnetic Induction | |
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| Faraday's Law | |
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| Motional Emf | |
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| Generators and Motors | |
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| The Transformer | |
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| Inductance | |
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| Energy Storage in a Magnetic Field | |
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| The Experimental Laws of Electromagnetism | |
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| Maxwell's Equations | |
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| Physics in Practice: Linear Accelerators for Radiation Therapy | |
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| Electromagnetic Waves | |
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| Alternating-Current Circuits | |
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| The RL Circuit | |
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| The RC Circuit | |
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| Effective Values of Alternating Current | |
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| Physics in Practice: Electrocardiography | |
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| Reactance | |
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| The RLC Series Circuit | |
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| Resonant Circuits | |
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| Geometrical Optics | |
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| Models of Light: Rays and Waves | |
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| Reflection and Refraction | |
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| Back to the Future: The Speed of Light | |
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| Total Internal Reflection | |
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| Fiber Optics | |
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| Thin Lenses | |
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| Locating Images by Ray Tracing | |
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| The Thin-Lens Equation | |
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| Spherical Mirrors | |
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| Lens Aberrations | |
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| Optical Instruments | |
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| The Eye | |
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| The Magnifying Glass | |
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| Cameras and Projectors | |
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| Compound Microscopes | |
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| Telescopes | |
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| Other Lenses | |
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| Back to the Future: Development of the Telescope | |
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| Wave Optics | |
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| Huygens' Principle | |
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| Reflection and Refraction of Light Waves | |
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| Interference of Light | |
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| Interference of Thin Films | |
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| Diffraction by a Single Slit | |
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| Multiple-Slit Diffraction and Gratings | |
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| Resolution and the Rayleigh Criterion | |
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| Dispersion | |
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| Spectroscopes and Spectra | |
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| Polarization | |
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| Scattering | |
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| Relativity | |
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| Principle of Relativity | |
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| Einstein's Postulates of Special Relativity | |
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| Velocity Addition | |
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| Back to the Future: Albert Einstein | |
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| Simultaneity | |
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| Time Dilation | |
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| Length Contraction | |
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| Physics in Practice: The Twin Paradox | |
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| Mass and Energy | |
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| Physics in Practice: The Appearance of Moving Objects | |
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| Relativistic Momentum | |
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| Relativisitic Kinetic Energy | |
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| The Relativistic Doppler Effect | |
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| The Principle of Equivalence | |
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| General Relativity | |
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| The Discovery of Atomic Structure | |
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| Evidence of Atoms from Solids and Gases | |
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| Electrolysis and the Quantization of Charge | |
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| Avogadro's Number and the Periodic Table | |
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| The Size of Atoms | |
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| Crystals and X-Ray Diffraction | |
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| Discovery of the Electron | |
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| Back to the Future: Seeing Atoms | |
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| Radioactivity | |
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| Radioactive Decay | |
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| Discovery of the Atomic Nucleus | |
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| Origins of the Quantum Theory | |
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| Spectroscopy | |
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| Balmer's Series | |
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| Back to the Future: Fraunhofer and the Solar Spectrum | |
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| Blackbody Radiation | |
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| The Photoelectric Effect | |
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| Physics in Practice: Photons and Vision | |
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| Bohr's Theory of the Hydrogen Atom | |
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| Successes of the Bohr Theory | |
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| Moseley and the Periodic Table | |
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| Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Classical and Quantum Mechanics | |
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| The Compton Effect | |
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| De Broglie Waves | |
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| Back to the Future: Electron Microscopes | |
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| Schrodinger's Equation | |
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| The Uncertainty Principle | |
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| Interpretation of the Wave Function | |
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| The Particle in a Box | |
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| Tunneling or Barrier Penetration | |
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| Wave Theory of the Hydrogen Atom | |
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| The Zeeman Effect and Space Quantization | |
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| The Pauli Exclusion Principle | |
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| Understanding the Periodic Table | |
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| The Nucleus | |
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| Radioactivity | |
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| Chadwick's Discovery of the Neutron | |
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| Composition and Size of the Nucleus | |
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| Nuclear Forces and Binding Energy | |
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| Conservation Rules: Radioactive and Nuclear Stability | |
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| Natural Radioactive Decay Series | |
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| Models for Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Decay | |
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| Detectors of Radiation | |
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| Radiation Measurement and Biological Effects | |
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| Induced Transmutation and Reactions | |
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| Nuclear Fission | |
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| Back to the Future: Lisa Meitner and Nuclear Fission | |
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| Nuclear Fusion | |
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| Lasers, Holography, and Color | |
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| Stimulated Emission of Light | |
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| Lasers | |
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| The Helium-Neon Laser | |
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| Properties of Laser Light | |
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| Holography | |
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| Light and Color | |
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| Physics in Practice: White-Light Holograms | |
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| Color by Addition and Subtraction | |
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| Condensed Matter | |
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| Types of Condensed Matter | |
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| The Free-Electron Model of Metals | |
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| Physics in Practice: Liquid Crystal Displays | |
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| Electrical Conductivity and Ohm's Law | |
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| Band Theory of Solids | |
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| Pure Semiconductors | |
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| The Hall Effect | |
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| Impure Semiconductors | |
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| The pnJunction | |
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| Rectifier Circuits | |
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| Solar Cells and Light-Emitting Diodes | |
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| Elementary Particle Physics | |
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| Particles and Antiparticles | |
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| Pions and the Strong Nuclear Force | |
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| Back to the Future: Cosmic Rays | |
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| More and More Particles | |
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| Accelerators and Detectors | |
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| Classification of Elementary Particles | |
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| The Quark Model of Matter | |
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| Unified Theories | |
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| Cosmology | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Formulas from Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry | |
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| The International System of Units | |
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| Alphabetical List of Elements | |
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| Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |