Master Math Essential Physics

by Lawrence, Debra Ross

• ISBN13: 9781435458888
• ISBN10: 1435458885
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-16
• Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR

Summary

MASTER MATH: ESSENTIAL PHYSICS 1E presents, teaches, and explains the fundamental topics of basic, algebra-based physics and provides fun examples, applications, and practice problems for readers. This book covers motion, force, momentum, Newton's laws, forces in equilibrium, forces in nature, energy and work, elasticity and vibrations, fluids, heat and temperature, gases, electric fields and electric current, electromagnetism, waves, sound, radiation, light and optics. There is also a brief introduction to relativity, quanta, atoms, structure of matter, and nuclei. MASTER MATH: ESSENTIAL PHYSICS 1E will teach readers the concepts of physics and also concisely explain to them how the essential equations of physics are derived, all in a friendly and accessible manner.

Author Biography

Debra Anne Ross Lawrence is the author of other books in the Master Math series as well as the author of The 3:00 PM Secret: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams; The 3:00 PM Secret 10-Day Dream Diet; and Arrows Through Time: A Time Travel Tale of Adventure, Courage, and Faith. Debra earned a double Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and Chemistry with honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. David Allen Lawrence holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Important Definitions	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Motion	p. 3
Average Speed	p. 3
Instantaneous Speed	p. 6
Acceleration	p. 7
Finding Distance Traveled at Constant Acceleration	p. 9
Acceleration Due to Gravity-No Air Resistance	p. 12
Acceleration Due to Gravity-With Air Resistance	p. 15
Vector and Scalar Excursion	p. 17
Velocity vs. Speed	p. 22
Acceleration Vector	p. 24
Two-Dimensional Motion: Projectiles	p. 26
Circular Motion	p. 31
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 35
Force, Momentum, and Newton's Laws	p. 39
Force	p. 39
Newton's Laws of Motion	p. 41
Mass vs. Weight, Normal Force, and Tension	p. 44
Linear Momentum and Impulse	p. 53
Conservation of Linear Momentum	p. 57
Torque	p. 59
Angular Momentum and Conservation of Angular Momentum	p. 62
Center of Mass	p. 66
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 70
Equilibrium and Friction	p. 73
Static Equilibrium	p. 73
Torques in Equilibrium	p. 76
Friction	p. 78
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 85
Natural Forces	p. 87
Gravitation	p. 87
Electrostatic Force	p. 94
Strong Nuclear and Weak Forces	p. 99
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 107
Energy and Work	p. 111
Work	p. 111
Kinetic Energy	p. 117
Potential Energy	p. 121
Conservative and Non-Conservative Forces	p. 123
Gravitational Potential Energy When h Is Large	p. 125
Electrostatic Potential Energy	p. 127
Introduction to the Electron Volt	p. 128
Rotational Kinetic Energy	p. 130
Conservation of Energy	p. 131
Elastic and Inelastic Collisions	p. 135
Power	p. 140
Principles of Simple Machines	p. 141
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 143
Elasticity and Harmonic Motion	p. 147
Elasticity and Hooke's Law	p. 147
Stress and Strain	p. 150
Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM)	p. 153
Energy and Simple Harmonic Motion	p. 162
Simple Pendulum	p. 163
Damped Oscillations and Resonance	p. 164
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 166
Fluids	p. 169
Pressure and Static Fluids	p. 170
Archimedes' Principle and the Buoyant Force in Static Fluids	p. 176
Surface Tension and Capillary Action	p. 182
Fluid Flow, Continuity Equation, and Bernoulli's Equation	p. 188
Viscosity, Reynolds Number, and Terminal Velocity	p. 193
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 196
Heat and Temperature	p. 199
Temperature	p. 199
Thermal Expansion	p. 203
Heat as Energy	p. 209
Heat Transfer	p. 217
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 223
Gas and Thermodynamics	p. 225
Definitions-Mass, Moles, and Amu	p. 225
The Gas Laws	p. 227
Kinetic Theory	p. 231
Diffusion and Osmosis	p. 235
The Laws of Thermodynamics	p. 239
Vaporization, Vapor Pressure, and Phase Change	p. 253
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 256
Electric Fields and Currents	p. 259
Electric Field and Electric Potential	p. 259
Capacitance	p. 267
Electric Current	p. 272
Electric Resistance	p. 275
Electric Power	p. 279
Circuits	p. 281
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 289
Electromagnetism	p. 293
Magnetism	p. 293
Magnetic Forces on Moving Charges	p. 296
Charged Particles Moving in Circular Motion in Magnetic Fields	p. 300
Electric Currents Generate Magnetic Fields	p. 302
Changing Fields Induce Current and Magnetic Flux	p. 306
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 312
Alternating Current	p. 315
Alternating Current	p. 315
Capacitance in an AC Circuit	p. 319
Inductance in an AC Circuit	p. 321
RCL Circuits	p. 327
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 328
Waves, Sound, and Light	p. 331
Traveling Waves	p. 331
Standing Waves	p. 335
Sound Waves	p. 338
Light Waves: Interference and Diffraction	p. 347
Electromagnetic Radiation	p. 351
Reflection and Refraction	p. 354
Lenses and Mirrors	p. 360
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 369
Introduction to the "Fun Stuff"	p. 373
Special Relativity	p. 373
General Relativity	p. 381
The Atom and an Introduction to Quantum	p. 389
Dark Energy and Dark Matter	p. 400
Key Concepts and Practice Problems	p. 405
Index	p. 409
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