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Randy Knight taught introductory physics for 32 years at Ohio State University and California Polytechnic State University, where he is Professor Emeritus of Physics. Professor Knight received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics before joining the faculty at Ohio State University. It was at Ohio State that he began to learn about the research in physics education that, many years later, led to Five Easy Lessons: Strategies for Successful Physics Teaching and this book, as well as Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach. Professor Knight’s research interests are in the fields of laser spectroscopy and environmental science. When he’s not in front of a computer, you can find Randy hiking, sea kayaking, playing the piano, or spending time with his wife Sally and their five cats.
Brian Jones has won several teaching awards at Colorado State University during his 30 years teaching in the Department of Physics. His teaching focus in recent years has been the College Physics class, including writing problems for the MCAT exam and helping students review for this test. In 2011, Brian was awarded the Robert A. Millikan Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers for his work as director of the Little Shop of Physics, a hands-on science outreach program. He is actively exploring the effectiveness of methods of informal science education and how to extend these lessons to the college classroom. Brian has been invited to give workshops on techniques of science instruction throughout the United States and in Belize, Chile, Ethiopia, Azerbaijan, Mexico, Slovenia, Norway, and Namibia. Brian and his wife Carol have dozens of fruit trees and bushes in their yard, including an apple tree that was propagated from a tree in Isaac Newton’s garden.
Stuart Field has been interested in science and technology his whole life. While in school he built telescopes, electronic circuits, and computers. After attending Stanford University, he earned a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, where he studied the properties of materials at ultralow temperatures. After completing a postdoctoral position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he held a faculty position at the University of Michigan. Currently at Colorado State University, Stuart teaches a variety of physics courses, including algebra-based introductory physics, and was an early and enthusiastic adopter of Knight’s Physics for Scientists and Engineers. Stuart maintains an active research program in the area of superconductivity. Stuart enjoys Colorado’s great outdoors, where he is an avid mountain biker; he also plays in local ice hockey leagues.
VOLUME 1: CHAPTERS 1-16
PART I Force and Motion
OVERVIEW The Science of Physics
1. Representing Motion
1.1 Motion: A First Look
1.2 Models and Modeling
1.3 Position and Time: Putting Numbers on Nature
1.4 Velocity
1.5 A Sense of Scale: Significant Figures, Scientific Notation, and Units
1.6 Vectors and Motion: A First Look
1.7 Where Do We Go from Here?
SUMMARY
QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS
2. Motion in One Dimension
2.1 Describing Motion
2.2 Uniform Motion
2.3 Instantaneous Velocity
2.4 Acceleration
2.5 Motion with Constant Acceleration
2.6 Solving One-Dimensional Motion Problems
2.7 Free Fall
4 Forces and Newton’s Laws of Motion
4.1 Motion and Forces
4.2 A Short Catalog of Forces
4.3 Identifying Forces
4.4 What Do Forces Do?
4.5 Newton’s Second Law
4.6 Free-Body Diagrams
4.7 Newton’s Third Law
5 Applying Newton’s Laws
5.1 Equilibrium
5.2 Dynamics and Newton’s
Second Law
5.3 Mass and Weight
5.4 Normal Forces
5.5 Friction
5.6 Drag
5.7 Interacting Objects
5.8 Ropes and Pulleys
6 Circular Motion, Orbits, and Gravity
6.1 Uniform Circular Motion
6.2 Dynamics of Uniform Circular Motion
6.3 Apparent Forces in Circular Motion
6.4 Circular Orbits and Weightlessness
6.5 Newton’s Law of Gravity
6.6 Gravity and Orbits
7 Rotational Motion
7.1 Describing Circular and Rotational Motion
7.2 The Rotation of a Rigid Body
7.3 Torque
7.4 Gravitational Torque and the Center of Gravity
7.5 Rotational Dynamics and Moment of Inertia
7.6 Using Newton’s Second Law for Rotation
7.7 Rolling Motion
8 Equilibrium and Elasticity
8.1 Torque and Static Equilibrium
8.2 Stability and Balance
8.3 Springs and Hooke’s Law
8.4 Stretching and Compressing Materials
8.5 Forces and Torques in the Body
PART I SUMMARY Force and Motion
ONE STEP BEYOND Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe
PART I PROBLEMS
Detailed Contents
PART II Conservation Laws
OVERVIEW Why Some Things Stay the Same
9 Momentum
9.1 Impulse
9.2 Momentum and the Impulse-Momentum Theorem
9.3 Solving Impulse and Momentum Problems
9.4 Conservation of Momentum
9.5 Inelastic Collisions
9.6 Momentum and Collisions in Two Dimensions
9.7 Angular Momentum
10 Energy and Work
10.1 The Basic Energy Model
10.2 Work
10.3 Kinetic Energy
10.4 Potential Energy
10.5 Thermal Energy
10.6 Conservation of Energy
10.7 Energy Diagrams
10.8 Molecular Bonds and Chemical Energy
10.9 Energy in Collisions
10.10 Power
11 Using Energy
11.1 Transforming Energy
11.2 Energy in the Body
11.3 Temperature, Thermal Energy, and Heat
11.4 The First Law of Thermodynamics
11.5 Heat Engines
11.6 Heat Pumps
11.7 Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
11.8 Systems, Energy, and Entropy
PART II SUMMARY Conservation Laws
ONE STEP BEYOND Order Out of Chaos
PART II PROBLEMS
PART III Properties of Matter
OVERVIEW Beyond the Particle Model
12 Thermal Properties of Matter
12.1 The Atomic Model of Matter
12.2 The Atomic Model of an Ideal Gas
12.3 Ideal-Gas Processes
12.4 Thermal Expansion
12.5 Specific Heat and Heat of Transformation
12.6 Calorimetry
12.7 Specific Heats of Gases
12.8 Heat Transfer
12.9 Diffusion
13 Fluids
13.1 Fluids and Density
13.2 Pressure
13.3 Buoyancy
13.4 Fluids in Motion
13.5 Fluid Dynamics
13.6 Viscosity and Poiseuille’s Equation
13.7 The Circulatory System
PART III SUMMARY Properties of Matter
ONE STEP BEYOND Size and Life
PART III PROBLEMS
PART IV Oscillations and Waves
OVERVIEW Motion That Repeats Again and Again
14 OSCILLATIONS
14.1 Equilibrium and Oscillation
14.2 Linear Restoring Forces and SHM
14.3 Describing Simple Harmonic Motion
14.4 Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
14.5 Pendulum Motion
14.6 Damped Oscillations
14.7 Driven Oscillations and Resonance
15 Traveling Waves and Sound
15.1 The Wave Model
15.2 Traveling Waves
15.3 Graphical and Mathematical
Descriptions of Waves
15.4 Sound and Light Waves
15.5 Energy and Intensity
15.6 Loudness of Sound
15.7 The Doppler Effect and
Shock Waves
16 Superposition and Standing Waves
16.1 The Principle of Superposition
16.2 Standing Waves
16.3 Standing Waves on a String
16.4 Standing Sound Waves
16.5 Speech and Hearing
16.6 The Interference of Waves from Two Sources
16.7 Beats
PART IV SUMMARY Oscillations and Waves
ONE STEP BEYOND Waves in the Earth and the
Ocean
PART IV PROBLEMS
Appendix A Mathematics Review
Appendix B Periodic Table of Elements
Appendix C Atomic and Nuclear Data
Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems
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