Holt Physics

by Serway, Raymond A.

• ISBN13: 9780030505973
• ISBN10: 0030505976
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Harcourt Schools Publishers

Table of Contents

Safety in the Physics Laboratory	xxi
The Science of Physics	2	(36)
What is physics?	4	(6)
Measurements in experiments	10	(10)
Quick Lab Metric Prefixes	12	(8)
The language of physics	20	(18)
Consumer Focus A Billion Burgers, a Trillion M&M's	24	(2)
Summary	26	(1)
Review and Assess	27	(5)
Laboratory Exercise A Physics and Measurement	32	(2)
Laboratory Exercise B Time and Measurement	34	(4)
Motion in One Dimension	38	(44)
Displacement and velocity	40	(8)
Conceptual Challenge	41	(4)
Conceptual Challenge	45	(3)
Acceleration	48	(12)
Conceptual Challenge	50	(10)
Falling objects	60	(22)
Quick Lab Time Interval of Free Fall	62	(4)
Physics on the Edge Time Dilation	66	(2)
Summary	68	(1)
Review and Assess	69	(7)
Laboratory Exercise Measuring Time and Motion	76	(6)
Two-Dimensional Motion and Vectors	82	(40)
Introduction to vectors	84	(4)
Vector operations	88	(10)
Projectile motion	98	(8)
Quick Lab Projectile Motion	100	(6)
Relative motion	106	(16)
Conceptual Challenge	107	(3)
Physics on the Edge Relativistic Addition of Velocities	110	(2)
Summary	112	(1)
Review and Assess	113	(7)
Laboratory Exercise Velocity of a Projectile	120	(2)
Forces and the Laws of Motion	122	(44)
Changes in motion	124	(6)
Quick Lab Force and Changes in Motion	126	(3)
Tomorrow's Technology Indestructible Alloy	129	(1)
Newton's first law	130	(6)
Quick Lab Inertia	134	(2)
Newton's second and third laws	136	(5)
Conceptual Challenge	138	(3)
Everyday forces	141	(25)
Consumer Focus Driving and Friction	148	(2)
Summary	150	(1)
Review and Assess	151	(7)
Laboratory Exercise Force and Acceleration	158	(6)
Timelines: Physics and Its World: 1540--1690	164	(2)
Work and Energy	166	(40)
Work	168	(4)
Energy	172	(7)
Conservation of energy	179	(5)
Quick Lab Potential Energy	180	(4)
Work, energy, and power	184	(22)
Conceptual Challenge	187	(3)
Physics on the Edge The Equivalence of Mass and Energy	190	(2)
Summary	192	(1)
Review and Assess	193	(7)
Laboratory Exercise Conservation of Mechanical Energy	200	(6)
Momentum and Collisions	206	(36)
Momentum and impulse	208	(7)
Conservation of momentum	215	(7)
Conceptual Challenge	216	(1)
Consumer Focus Surviving a Collision	217	(5)
Elastic and inelastic collisions	222	(20)
Quick Lab Elastic and Inelastic Collisions	227	(4)
Summary	231	(1)
Review and Assess	232	(6)
Laboratory Exercise Conservation of Momentum	238	(4)
Rotational Motion and the Law of Gravity	242	(34)
Measuring rotational motion	244	(9)
Quick Lab Radians and Arc Length	245	(8)
Tangential and centripetal acceleration	253	(7)
Causes of circular motion	260	(16)
Conceptual Challenge	262	(4)
Physics on the Edge Orbiting Satellites and Black Holes	266	(2)
Summary	268	(1)
Review and Assess	269	(5)
Laboratory Exercise Circular Motion	274	(2)
Rotational Equilibrium and Dynamics	276	(40)
Torque	278	(5)
Quick Lab Two-Object Races	279	(4)
Rotation and inertia	283	(7)
Quick Lab Finding the Center of Mass Experimentally	284	(6)
Rotational dynamics	290	(8)
Simple machines	298	(18)
Tomorrow's Technology Human Extenders	300	(2)
Physics on the Edge Quantum Angular Momentum	302	(2)
Summary	304	(1)
Review and Assess	305	(8)
Laboratory Exercise Machines and Efficiency	313	(3)
Fluid Mechanics	316	(40)
Fluids and buoyant force	318	(7)
Conceptual Challenge	322	(3)
Fluid pressure and temperature	325	(7)
Quick Lab Foot Pressure	326	(2)
Conceptual Challenge	328	(4)
Fluids in motion	332	(6)
Tomorrow's Technology Continuous-Flow Heart Pump	334	(1)
Quick Lab Bernoulli's Principle	335	(3)
Properties of gases	338	(18)
Quick Lab Ideal Gas Law	339	(3)
Summary	342	(1)
Review and Assess	343	(7)
Laboratory Exercise Boyle's Law	350	(4)
Timelines: Physics and Its World: 1690--1785	354	(2)
Heat	356	(44)
Temperature and thermal equilibrium	358	(7)
Quick Lab Sensing Temperature	358	(2)
Conceptual Challenge	360	(5)
Defining heat	365	(6)
Quick Lab Transferring Energy by Work and Heat	368	(3)
Changes in temperature and phase	371	(12)
Tomorrow's Technology Heating and Cooling from the Ground Up	375	(8)
Controlling heat	383	(17)
Summary	386	(1)
Review and Assess	387	(5)
Laboratory Exercise Specific Heat Capacity	392	(6)
Science, Technology, and Society: Climatic Warming	398	(2)
Thermodynamics	400	(36)
Relationships between heat and work	402	(7)
Thermodynamic processes	409	(11)
Tomorrow's Technology Deep-Sea Air Conditioning	416	(4)
Efficiency of heat engines	420	(5)
Tomorrow's Technology Solar Thermal Power Systems	421	(1)
Conceptual Challenge	422	(3)
Entropy	425	(11)
Quick Lab Entropy and Probability	426	(2)
Conceptual Challenge	428	(2)
Summary	430	(1)
Review and Assess	431	(5)
Vibrations and Waves	436	(42)
Simple harmonic motion	438	(8)
Conceptual Challenge	439	(3)
Consumer Focus Shock Absorbers and Damped Oscillation	442	(2)
Quick Lab Energy of a Pendulum	444	(2)
Measuring simple harmonic motion	446	(6)
Conceptual Challenge	449	(3)
Properties of waves	452	(7)
Wave interactions	459	(19)
Tomorrow's Technology Acoustic Levitation	464	(2)
Physics on the Edge De Broglie Waves	466	(2)
Summary	468	(1)
Review and Assess	469	(5)
Laboratory Exercise The Pendulum and Simple Harmonic Motion	474	(2)
Timelines: Physics and Its World: 1785--1830	476	(2)
Sound	478	(40)
Sound waves	480	(7)
Conceptual Challenge	483	(1)
Tomorrow's Technology Acoustic Bridge Inspection	484	(3)
Sound intensity and resonance	487	(7)
Quick Lab Resonance	491	(1)
Conceptual Challenge	492	(2)
Harmonics	494	(24)
Quick Lab A Pipe Closed at One End	497	(3)
Consumer Focus Reverberation	500	(2)
Conceptual Challenge	502	(2)
Physics on the Edge The Doppler Effect and the Big Bang	504	(2)
Summary	506	(1)
Review and Assess	507	(5)
Laboratory Exercise Speed of Sound	512	(4)
Science, Technology, and Society: Noise Pollution	516	(2)
Light and Reflection	518	(42)
Characteristics of light	520	(6)
Tomorrow's Technology Sulfur Light Bulbs	524	(2)
Flat mirrors	526	(4)
Curved mirrors	530	(13)
Quick Lab Curved Mirrors	533	(10)
Color and polarization	543	(17)
Conceptual Challenge	545	(2)
Quick Lab Polarization of Sunlight	547	(2)
Summary	549	(1)
Review and Assess	550	(6)
Laboratory Exercise Brightness of Light	556	(4)
Refraction	560	(36)
Refraction	562	(6)
Conceptual Challenge	565	(3)
Thin lenses	568	(12)
Quick Lab Focal Length	570	(7)
Quick Lab Prescription Glasses	577	(3)
Optical Phenomena	580	(16)
Quick Lab Periscope	581	(5)
Summary	586	(1)
Review and Assess	587	(6)
Laboratory Exercise Converging Lenses	593	(3)
Interference and Diffraction	596	(30)
Interference	598	(7)
Diffraction	605	(9)
Conceptual Challenge	608	(6)
Coherence	614	(12)
Consumer Focus Holograms	616	(3)
Summary	619	(1)
Review and Assess	620	(4)
Laboratory Exercise Diffraction	624	(2)
Electric Forces and Fields	626	(38)
Electric charge	628	(6)
Conceptual Challenge	631	(1)
Quick Lab Polarization	632	(2)
Electric force	634	(9)
Conceptual Challenge	637	(6)
The electric field	643	(21)
Consumer Focus Microwave Ovens	645	(8)
Summary	653	(1)
Review and Assess	654	(6)
Laboratory Exercise Electrostatics	660	(4)
Electrical Energy and Capacitance	664	(28)
Electrical potential energy	666	(4)
Potential difference	670	(6)
Consumer Focus Finding the Right Battery	674	(2)
Capacitance	676	(16)
Conceptual Challenge	678	(4)
Summary	682	(1)
Review and Assess	683	(5)
Laboratory Exercise Capacitance and Electrical Energy	688	(2)
Science, Technology, and Society: Are Electric Cars an Answer to Pollution?	690	(2)
Current and Resistance	692	(36)
Electric current	694	(6)
Quick Lab A Lemon Battery	696	(1)
Conceptual Challenge	697	(3)
Resistance	700	(8)
Conceptual Challenge	704	(1)
Tomorrow's Technology Electroporation	705	(3)
Electric power	708	(20)
Conceptual Challenge	709	(2)
Quick Lab Energy Use in Home Appliances	711	(3)
Physics on the Edge Electron Tunneling	714	(2)
Summary	716	(1)
Review and Assess	717	(5)
Laboratory Exercise Current and Resistance	722	(4)
Timelines: Physics and Its World: 1830--1890	726	(2)
Circuits and Circuit Elements	728	(36)
Schematic diagrams and circuits	730	(6)
Conceptual Challenge	732	(2)
Quick Lab Simple Circuits	734	(2)
Resistors in series or in parallel	736	(10)
Quick Lab Series and Parallel Circuits	741	(1)
Conceptual Challenge	742	(4)
Complex resistor combinations	746	(18)
Consumer Focus Decorative Lights and Bulbs	751	(2)
Summary	753	(1)
Review and Assess	754	(6)
Laboratory Exercise Resistors in Series and in Parallel	760	(4)
Magnetism	764	(28)
Magnets and magnetic fields	766	(4)
Quick Lab Magnetic Field of a File Cabinet	768	(2)
Electromagnetism and magnetic domains	770	(3)
Quick Lab Electromagnetism	771	(2)
Magnetic force	773	(19)
Summary	780	(1)
Review and Assess	781	(5)
Laboratory Exercise Magnetic Field of a Conducting Wire	786	(4)
Science, Technology, and Society: Electromagnetic Fields: Can They Affect Your Health?	790	(2)
Induction and Alternating Current	792	(36)
Induced current	794	(9)
Conceptual Challenge	797	(6)
Alternating current, generators, and motors	803	(11)
Consumer Focus Avoiding Electrocution	813	(1)
Inductance	814	(14)
Summary	820	(1)
Review and Assess	821	(5)
Laboratory Exercise Electromagnetic Induction	826	(2)
Atomic Physics	828	(36)
Quantization of energy	830	(10)
Conceptual Challenge	837	(3)
Models of the atom	840	(8)
Quick Lab Atomic Spectra	843	(2)
Conceptual Challenge	845	(1)
Tomorrow's Technology Laser Surface Analyzer	846	(2)
Quantum mechanics	848	(16)
Summary	855	(1)
Review and Assess	856	(4)
Laboratory Exercise The Photoelectric Effect	860	(2)
Timelines: Physics and Its World: 1890--1950	862	(2)
Modern Electronics	864	(30)
Conduction in the solid state	866	(6)
Semiconductor applications	872	(9)
Superconductors	881	(13)
Summary	885	(1)
Review and Assess	886	(3)
Laboratory Exercise Resistors and Diodes	889	(3)
Science, Technology, and Society: What Can We Do With Nuclear Waste?	892	(2)
Subatomic Physics	894	(40)
The nucleus	896	(7)
Nuclear decay	903	(10)
Conceptual Challenge	909	(4)
Nuclear reactions	913	(4)
Particle physics	917	(17)
Conceptual Challenge	920	(4)
Physics on the Edge Antimatter	924	(2)
Summary	926	(1)
Review and Assess	927	(5)
Laboratory Exercise Half-Life	932	(2)
Reference Section	934	(38)
Appendix A Mathematical Review	936	(15)
Appendix B Symbols	951	(7)
Appendix C SI Units	958	(2)
Appendix D Useful Tables	960	(4)
Appendix E Periodic Table	964	(2)
Appendix F Abbreviated Table of Isotopes	966	(6)
Answers to Selected Problems	972	(10)
Credits	982	(2)
Glossary	984	(5)
Index	989