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9780805392142

College Physics, Volume 1 (Chs. 1-16) with MasteringPhysics

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    9780805392142

  • ISBN10:

    0805392149

  • Edition: 8th
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  • Copyright: 2005-12-13
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley
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Summary

For more than five decades, Sears and Zemansky'sCollege Physicshas provided the most reliable foundation of physics education for readers around the world. For the Eighth Edition, Robert Geller joins Hugh Young to produce a comprehensive update of this benchmark text. A broad and thorough introduction to physics, this new edition carefully integrates many solutions from educational research to help readers to develop greater confidence in solving problems, deeper conceptual understanding, and stronger quantitative-reasoning skills, while helping them connect what they learn with their other courses and the changing world around them. Models, Measurements, and Vectors, Motion along a Straight Line, Motion in a Plane, Newtonrs"s Laws of Motion, Applications of Newtonrs"s Laws, Circular Motion and Gravitation, Work and Energy, Momentum, Rotational Motion, Dynamics of Rotational Motion, Elasticity and Periodic Motion, Mechanical Waves and Sound, Fluid Mechanics, Temperature and Heat, Thermal Properties of Matter, The Second Law of Thermodynamics For all readers interested in most reliable foundation of physics education.

Author Biography

Hugh D. Young is Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Carnegie Mellon for both undergraduate and graduate study and earned his Ph.D. in fundamental particle theory under the direction of the late Richard Cutkosky. He joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 1956, and has also spent two years as a visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Hugh's career has centered entirely around undergraduate education. He has written several undergraduate-level textbooks, and in 1973 he became a coauthor with Francis Sears and Mark Zemansky for their well-known introductory texts. In addition to his role on Sears and Zemansky's College Physics , he is currently a coauthor with Roger Freedman on Sears and Zemanksy's University Physics .

Hugh is an enthusiastic skier, climber, and hiker. He also served for several years as Associate Organist at St. Paul's Cathedral in Pittsburgh, and has played numerous organ recitals in the Pittsburgh area. Prof. Young and his wife Alice usually travel extensively in the summer, especially in Europe and in the desert canyon country of southern Utah.


Robert M. Geller teaches physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also obtained his Ph.D. under Robert Antonucci in observational cosmology. Currently, he is involved in two major research projects: a search for cosmological halos predicted by the Big Bang, and a search for the flares that are predicted to occur when a supermassive black hole consumes a star.

Rob also has a strong focus on undergraduate education. In 2003, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award. He trains the graduate student teaching assistants on methods of physics education. He is also a frequent faculty leader for the UCSB Physics Circus, in which student volunteers perform exciting and thought-provoking physics demonstrations to elementary schools.

Rob loves the outdoors. He and his wife Susanne enjoy backpacking along rivers and fly fishing, usually with rods she has build and flies she has tied. Their daughter Zoe loves fishing too, but her fish tend to be plastic, and float in the bathtub.

Table of Contents

Models, Measurements, and Vectors
1(28)
Introduction
1(2)
Idealized Models
3(1)
Standards and Units
3(4)
Unit Consistency and Conversions
7(2)
Precision and Significant Figures
9(3)
Vectors and Vector Addition
12(4)
Components of Vectors
16(13)
Motion Along a Straight Line
29(39)
Displacement and Average Velocity
30(4)
Instantaneous Velocity
34(3)
Average and Instantaneous Acceleration
37(5)
Motion with Constant Acceleration
42(6)
Proportional Reasoning
48(3)
Freely Falling Objects
51(3)
Relative Velocity along a Straight Line
54(14)
Motion in a Plane
68(31)
Velocity in a Plane
68(3)
Acceleration in a Plane
71(4)
Projectile Motion
75(10)
Uniform Circular Motion
85(3)
Relative Velocity in a Plane
88(11)
Newton's Laws of Motion
99(29)
Force
99(3)
Newton's First Law
102(2)
Mass and Newton's Second Law
104(5)
Mass and Weight
109(3)
Newton's Third Law
112(4)
Free-Body Diagrams
116(12)
Applications of Newton's Laws
128(33)
Equilibrium of a Particle
128(5)
Applications of Newton's Second Law
133(4)
Contact Forces and Friction
137(8)
Elastic Forces
145(2)
Forces in Nature
147(14)
Circular Motion and Gravitation
161(27)
Force in Circular Motion
161(7)
Motion in a Vertical Circle
168(2)
Newton's Law of Gravitation
170(2)
Weight
172(3)
Satellite Motion
175(13)
Work and Energy
188(43)
An Overview of Energy
188(4)
Work
192(4)
Work and Kinetic Energy
196(4)
Work Done by a Varying Force
200(3)
Potential Energy
203(5)
Conservation of Energy
208(4)
Conservative and Nonconservative Forces
212(4)
Power
216(15)
Momentum
231(36)
Momentum
231(3)
Conservation of Momentum
234(5)
Inelastic Collisions
239(5)
Elastic Collisions
244(4)
Impulse
248(3)
Center of Mass
251(2)
Motion of the Center of Mass
253(1)
Rocket Propulsion
254(13)
Rotational Motion
267(27)
Angular Velocity and Angular Acceleration
267(3)
Rotation with Constant Angular Acceleration
270(2)
Relationship between Linear and Angular Quantities
272(5)
Kinetic Energy of Rotation and Moment of Inertia
277(4)
Rotation about a Moving Axis
281(13)
Dynamics of Rotational Motion
294(39)
Torque
294(3)
Torque and Angular Acceleration
297(6)
Work and Power in Rotational Motion
303(2)
Angular Momentum
305(2)
Conservation of Angular Momentum
307(4)
Equilibrium of a Rigid Body
311(6)
Vector Nature of Angular Quantities
317(16)
Elasticity and Periodic Motion
333(32)
Stress, Strain, and Elastic Deformations
333(7)
Periodic Motion
340(3)
Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
343(3)
Equations of Simple Harmonic Motion
346(5)
The Simple Pendulum
351(3)
Damped and Forced Oscillations
354(11)
Mechanical Waves and Sound
365(42)
Mechanical Waves
365(2)
Periodic Mechanical Waves
367(2)
Wave Speeds
369(2)
Mathematical Description of a Wave
371(2)
Reflections and Superposition
373(1)
Standing Waves and Normal Modes
374(6)
Longitudinal Standing Waves
380(4)
Interference
384(1)
Sound and Hearing
385(1)
Sound Intensity
386(3)
Beats
389(2)
The Doppler Effect
391(4)
Applications of Acoustics
395(1)
Musical Tones
396(11)
Fluid Mechanics
407(34)
Density
407(2)
Pressure in a Fluid
409(7)
Archimedes' Principle: Buoyancy
416(3)
Surface Tension and Capillarity
419(3)
Fluid Flow
422(2)
Bernoulli's Equation
424(3)
Applications of Bernoulli's Equation
427(3)
Real Fluids: Viscosity and Turbulence
430(11)
Temperature and Heat
441(36)
Temperature and Thermal Equilibrium
441(2)
Temperature Scales
443(3)
Thermal Expansion
446(5)
Quantity of Heat
451(3)
Phase Changes
454(4)
Calorimetry
458(1)
Heat Transfer
459(7)
Solar Energy and Resource Conservation
466(11)
Thermal Properties of Matter
477(39)
The Mole and Avogadro's Number
477(2)
Equations of State
479(7)
Kinetic Theory of an Ideal Gas
486(6)
Heat Capacities
492(1)
The First Law of Thermodynamics
493(8)
Thermodynamic Processes
501(2)
Properties of an Ideal Gas
503(13)
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
516
Directions of Thermodynamic Processes
516(2)
Heat Engines
518(3)
Internal Combustion Engines
521(2)
Refrigerators
523(3)
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
526(1)
The Carnot Engine: The Most Efficient Heat Engine
527(4)
Entropy
531(4)
The Kelvin Temperature Scale
535(1)
Energy Resources: A Case Study in Thermodynamics
536
Appendix A Mathematics Review 1(9)
Appendix B The International System of Units 10(2)
Appendix C The Greek Alphabet 12(1)
Appendix D Periodic Table of Elements 13(1)
Appendix E Unit Conversion Factors 14(1)
Appendix F Numerical Constants 15(2)
Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems 17
Credits 1(1)
Index 1

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