Sears and Zemansky's College Physics

by Young, Hugh D.; Geller, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780805378214
• ISBN10: 0805378219
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-26
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley

Summary

KEY BENEFIT: 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. KEY TOPICS: 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, Electric Charges, Forces and Fields, Electric Potential and Electric Energy, Electric Current and Direct-Current Circuits, Magnetism, Magnetic Flux and Faradayrs"s Law of Induction, Alternating Currents, Electromagnetic Waves, Geometric Optics, Optical Instruments, Interference and Diffraction, Relativity, Photons, Electrons, and Atoms, Atoms, Molecules, and Solids, 30 Nuclear and High-Energy PhysicsFor 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.

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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

Physics of a CD player	p. 2
BIO: Echolocation in bats	p. 3
Train crash illustrates the importance of precision in measurement	p. 10
Vectors in a caribou's swim across a river	p. 14
Average velocity on "the crookedest street in the world"	p. 32
Average speed/average velocity of a race car	p. 37
Negative acceleration of a drag racer	p. 39
BIO: Human centrifuge	p. 42
High-performance yo-yos	p. 69
A car's three accelerators	p. 72
Rate of change of velocity in juggling	p. 77
BIO: Bombardier beetle demonstrating projectile motion	p. 79
Human cannonball as projectile	p. 82
Uniform circular motion in global positioning systems	p. 87
Catapult demonstrating Newton's first law	p. 102
Tablecloth trick: Inertia	p. 103
Bubble chamber image: Studying particles	p. 107
Lunar golf	p. 111
Biathlete using Newton's third law	p. 113
Rocket launch	p. 115
Tug-of-war	p. 116
Crane unloading Very Large Telescope mirror	p. 129
Liquid-filled accelerometer	p. 134
Rock climber using frictional forces	p. 138
Wet saw cutting stone	p. 139
BIO: Ultracentrifuge	p. 162
Centripetal force in bobsledding	p. 163
BIO: Runner using Newton's third law	p. 170
Gravity map of the earth	p. 173
"Skycycle" takeoff	p. 176
BIO: Elastic potential energy in kangaroo hopping	p. 191
Reduced air drag on a recumbent bicycle	p. 193
BIO: Elasticity of tendons and ligaments	p. 201
BIO: Carrying weight on the head	p. 203
BIO: Energy expended in climbing El Capitan	p. 207
BIO: Grasshopper's catapult mechanism	p. 208
BIO: Measuring a llama's oxygen consumption	p. 216
BIO: Contrecoup brain injury	p. 232
Conservation of momentum in a bowling strike	p. 235
Momentum of sumo wrestlers	p. 241
Light sail	p. 244
BIO: Frog's legs demonstrating impulse	p. 248
Center of mass in balancing acrobats	p. 253
BIO: Jet propulsion in jellyfish	p. 255
Hand drill demonstrating angular velocity	p. 269
Velocipede direct-drive bicycle	p. 274
Storing energy in a flywheel	p. 277
Moon orbiting earth	p. 282
Balancing on a tightrope	p. 297
Oxen turning water-well lift	p. 304
Nanoengineered gears	p. 306
Andaman earthquake's effects on length of day	p. 308
Spinning dinner plates	p. 313
Rifling in a gun barrel	p. 318
Cable-stayed bridge	p. 335
Weighing a fish	p. 336
Bio: Buoyancy in deep-sea hatchetfish	p. 337
Bio: Strength and elasticity in a spider's web	p. 340
Nanobalance	p. 348
Foucault pendulum	p. 353
Bio: Injuries from a jackhammer's vibrations	p. 354
Earthquakes: Transverse and longitudinal waves	p. 367
Wave generation in a surf pool	p. 368
Superposition of mechanical waves in water ripples	p. 375
Bone flutes: Standing waves	p. 384
Bio: Sound-wave vibrations in the human ear	p. 386
Use of sonar in search of shipwrecks	p. 391
Doppler radar in meteorology	p. 395
Differing liquid densities in a coffee drink	p. 408
Bio: Measuring fluid pressure in the human eyeball	p. 412
Snowshoeing to reduce pressure	p. 413
Bio: Floating in the Dead Sea	p. 418
Turbulent flow in a meandering river	p. 424
Roof blown off by hurricane	p. 425
Hydrothermal vent	p. 444
Bimetallic strip	p. 447
Snowflakes	p. 455
Bio: Using a calorimeter to measure a cow's heat production	p. 458
Bio: Heat conduction in predatory fishes	p. 461
Hawaiian islands: Built by convective flow	p. 465
Bio: Infared images	p. 466
Solar car	p. 467
The Milky Way: One trillionth of a mole of stars	p. 478
Martian dust devil	p. 480
Bio: Scuba-diving hazards	p. 483
High-temperature calibration of a platinum resistance thermometer	p. 485
Hydrogen affects planet size	p. 489
Venus: An arid furnace	p. 490
Nuclear submarines as steamships	p. 495
The sun's energy	p. 517
Geothermal power in Iceland	p. 518
"Bio-diesel" engines	p. 522
How a refrigerator works	p. 523
Energy cycles of the earth and its organisms	p. 535
Zero-power homes	p. 536
Electric charge preceding a lightning strike	p. 546
Salt water conducts electricity	p. 549
Bio: "Static cling" in DNA	p. 552
Atom-smashing with Van de Graaff generators	p. 553
Bio: Platypus sensing electric fields	p. 558
Bio: Fish producing and using an electric field to sense its surroundings	p. 565
Car acting as a Faraday cage in an electrical storm	p. 572
Bio: Voltage-gated potassium channel in cell membrane	p. 583
Lightning bolt	p. 587
Bio: Bird perching on power line	p. 589
Sandia Lab's capacitor bank discharging	p. 596
Bio: Capacitors in cardiac defibrillators	p. 604
Semiconductors	p. 619
Magnetic-levitation trains	p. 622
Bio: Electric eels	p. 625
Bio: Recharging ATP molecules	p. 630
LED bicycle lights	p. 631
Bio: Wrist strap grounding electronics worker	p. 643
Bio: Homing pigeons: Using earth's magnetic field	p. 661
Bio: Magnetic resonance imaging	p. 664
Microwave ovens	p. 667
Direct-current motors	p. 673
Coaxial cable	p. 677
Magnetohydrodynamic pump	p. 683
Induction cooktop	p. 699
Portable energy pack	p. 705
Using an electromagnetic tether to deorbit satellites	p. 710
Recharging pad for electronic devices	p. 712
Using magnetic fields to catch red-light runners	p. 716
Step-down transformers	p. 717
L-C circuits in tuning knobs	p. 725
Alternating and direct current	p. 738
Power surge protection	p. 749
Radio antenna	p. 762
Cerenkov radiation in a nuclear reactor pool	p. 763
Galaxy in different spectral regions	p. 765
Bio: Ultraviolet vision in animals	p. 765
Physics of a double rainbow	p. 783
Photoelastic stress analysis	p. 789
Driver's blind spot	p. 804
Side-view convex mirrors	p. 811
Bio: Seeing in focus	p. 816
Diamond lenses used in optical data storage	p. 821
Bio: Compound eyes	p. 841
Bio: Animals' focusing mechanisms	p. 842
Eyeglass lenses	p. 843
X-ray telescope	p. 850
Telescope mirrors	p. 852
Waves diffracting in the ocean	p. 863
Nonreflective coating on museum cases	p. 872
Bio: Structural color in butterflies	p. 873
Bio: Using diffraction gratings to measure DNA	p. 880
Reflection diffraction grating in CDs	p. 880
Modern telescopes using interferometry	p. 888
Throwing a ball: Inertial frame of reference	p. 901
Time at the finish line	p. 906
Time travel	p. 909
Space and time	p. 914
Nuclear power: E = mc[superscript 2]	p. 920
Smoke detectors	p. 934
Fireworks	p. 941
Ruby lasers	p. 951
Bio: Boron neutron capture therapy for brain cancer	p. 956
Bio: Electron microscopy	p. 961
"Neon" lights	p. 980
Bio: DNA double helix: Bonding	p. 984
Diamonds and graphite	p. 990
Electron vacancies in semiconductors	p. 993
Transistor radio	p. 996
Size of nucleus relative to atom	p. 1004
Bio: Penetrating power of different types of radiation	p. 1012
Bio: Radiocarbon dating	p. 1017
Bio: Residence time of radionuclides in the body	p. 1019
Bio: Gamma-ray radiosurgery	p. 1020
Bio: Nuclear medicine: Bone scans	p. 1021
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