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Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Publishing, Inc., c2011.
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2nd ed.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
About this book
Conventions used in this book
What you're not to read
Foolish assumptions
How this book is organized
Part 1: Putting Physics Into Motion
Part 2: May The Forces Of Physics Be With You
Part 3: Manifesting The Energy To Work
Part 4: Laying Down the Laws Of Thermodynamics
Part 5: Part Of Tens
Icons used in this book
Where to go from here
Part 1:
Putting Physics Into Motion:
Using physics to understand your world:
What physics is all about
Observing the world
Making predictions
Reaping the rewards
Observing objects in motion
Measuring speed, direction, velocity, and acceleration
Round and round: rotational motion
Springs and pendulums: simple harmonic motion
When push comes to shove: forces
Absorbing the energy around you
That's heavy: pressures in fluids
Feeling hot but not bothered: thermodynamics
Reviewing physics measurement and math fundamentals:
Measuring the world around you and making predictions
Using systems of measurement
From meters to inches and back again:
Converting between units
Eliminating some zeros: using scientific notation
Checking the accuracy and precision of measurements
Knowing which digits are significant
Estimating accuracy
Arming yourself with basic algebra
Tackling a little trig
Interpreting equations as real-world ideas
Exploring the need for speed:
Going the distance with displacement
Understanding displacement and position
Examining axes
Speed specifics: what is speed, anyway?
Reading the speedometer: instantaneous speed
Staying steady: uniform speed
Shifting speeds: nonuniform motion
Busting out the stopwatch: average speed
Speeding up (or down): acceleration
Defining acceleration
Determining the units of acceleration
Looking at positive and negative acceleration
Examining average and instantaneous acceleration
Taking off: putting the acceleration formula into practice
Understanding uniform and nonuniform acceleration
Relating acceleration, time, and displacement
Not-so-distant relations: deriving the formula
Calculating acceleration and distance
Linking velocity, acceleration and displacement
Finding acceleration
Solving for displacement
Finding final velocity
Following directions: motion in two dimensions:
Visualizing vectors
Asking for directions: vector basics
Looking at vector addition from start to finish
Going head-to-head with vector subtraction
Putting vectors on the grid
Adding vectors by adding coordinates
Changing the length: multiplying a vector by a number
Little trig: breaking up vectors into components
Finding vector components
Reassembling a vector from its components
Featuring displacement, velocity, and acceleration in 2-D
Displacement: going the distance in two dimensions
Velocity: speeding in a new direction
Acceleration: getting a new angle on changes in velocity
Accelerating downward: motion under the influence of gravity
Golf-ball-off-the-cliff exercise
How-far-can-you-kick-the-ball exercise
Part 2:
May The Forces Of Physics Be With You:
When push comes to shove: force:
Newton's first law: Resisting with inertia
Resisting change: inertia and mass
Measuring mass
Newton's second law: Relating force, mass and acceleration
Relating the formula to the real world
Naming units of force
Vector addition: gathering net forces
Newton's third law: Looking at equal and opposite forces
Seeing Newton's third law in action
Pulling hard enough to overcome friction
Pulleys: supporting double the force
Analyzing angles and force in Newton's third law
Finding equilibrium
Getting down with gravity, inclined planes, and friction:
Acceleration due to gravity: one of life's little constants
Finding a new angle on gravity with inclined pl
anes -- Finding the force of gravity along a ramp -- Figuring the speed along a ramp -- Getting sticky with friction -- Calculating friction and the normal force -- Conquering the coefficient of friction -- On the move: understanding static and kinetic friction -- A not-so-slippery slope: handling uphill and downhill friction -- Let's get fired up! Sending objects airborne -- Shooting an object straight up -- Projectile motion: firing an object at an angle -- Circling around rotational motion and orbits: -- Centripetal acceleration: changing direction to move in a circle -- Keeping a constant speed with uniform circular motion -- Finding the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration -- Seeking the center: centripetal force -- Looking at the force you need -- Seeing how the mass, velocity, and radius affect centripetal force -- Negotiating flat curves and banked turns -- Getting angular with displacement, velocity, and acceleration -- Measuring angles in radians -- Relating linear and angular motion -- Letting gravity supply centripetal force -- Using Newton's law of universal gravitation -- Deriving the force of gravity on the earth's surface -- Using the law of gravitation to examine circular orbits -- Looping the loop: vertical circular motion -- Go with the flow: looking at pressure in fluids: -- Mass density: getting some inside information -- Calculating density -- Comparing densities with specific gravity -- Applying pressure -- Looking at units of pressure -- Connecting pressure to changes in depth -- Hydraulic machines: passing on pressure with Pascal's principle -- Buoyancy: float your boat with Archimedes's principle -- Fluid dynamics: going with fluids in motion -- Characterizing the type of flow -- Picturing flow with streamlines -- Getting up to speed on flow and pressure -- Equation of continuity: relating pipe size and flow rates -- Bernoulli's equation: relating speed and pressure -- Pipes and pressure: putting it all together --
Part 3:
Manifesting The Energy To Work:
Getting some work out of physics:
Looking for work
Working on measurement systems
Pushing your weight: applying force in the direction of movement
Using a tow rope: applying at an angle
Negative work: applying force opposite the direction of motion
Making a move: kinetic energy
Work-energy theorem: turning work into kinetic energy
Using the kinetic energy equation
Calculating changes in kinetic energy by using net force
Energy in the bank: potential energy
To new heights: gaining potential energy by working against gravity
Achieving your potential: converting potential energy into kinetic energy
Choose your path: conservative versus nonconservative forces
Keeping the energy up: the conservation of mechanical energy
Shifting between kinetic and potential energy
Mechanical-energy balance: finding velocity and height
Powering up: the rate of doing work
Using common units of power
Doing alternate calculations of power
Putting objects in motion: momentum and impulse:
Looking at the impact of impulse
Gathering momentum
Impulse-monentum theorem: relating impulse and momentum
Shooting pool: finding force from impulse and momentum
Singing in the rain: an impulsive activity
When objects go bonk: conserving momentum
Deriving the conservation formula
Finding velocity with the conservation of momentum
Finding firing velocity with the conservation of momentum
When worlds (or cars) collide: elastic and ineleastic collisions
Determining whether a collision is elastic
Colliding elastically along a line
Colliding elastically in two dimensions
Winding up with angular kinetics:
Going from linear to rotational motion
Understanding tangential motion
Finding tangential velocity
Finding tangential acceleration
Finding centripetal acceleration
Applying vectors to rotation
Calculating angular velocity
Figuring angular acceleration
Doing the twist: torque
Mapping out the torque equation
Understanding lever arms
Figuring out the torque generated
Recognizing the torque is a vector
Spinning at constant velocity: rotational equilibrium
Determining how much weight Hercules can lift
Handling a flag: a rotational equilibrium problem
Ladder safety: introducing friction into rotational equilibrium
Round and round with rotational dynamics:
Rolling up Newton's second law into angular motion
Switching force to torque
Converting tangential acceleration to angular acceleration
Factoring in the moment of inertia
Moments of inertia: looking into mass distribution
DVD players and torque: a spinning-disk inertia example
Angular acceleration and torque: a pulley inertia example
Wrapping your head around rotational work and kinetic energy
Putting a new spin on work
Moving along with rotational kinetic energy
Let's roll! Finding rotational kinetic energy on a ramp
Can't stop this: angular momentum
Conserving angular momentum
Satellite orbits: a conservation-of-angular momentum example
Springs'n'things: simple harmonic motion:
Bouncing back with Hooke's law
Stretching and compressing springs
Pushing or pulling back: the spring's restoring force
Getting around to simple harmonic motion
Around equilibrium: examining horizontal and vertical springs
Catching the wave: a sine of simple harmonic motion
Finding the angular frequency of a mass on a spring
Factoring energy into simple harmonic motion
Swinging with pendulums
Part 5:
Laying Down The Laws Of Thermodynamics:
Turning up the heat with thermodynamics:
Measuring temperature
Fahrenheit and Celsius: working in degrees
Zeroing in on the Kelvin scale
Heat is on: thermal expansion
Linear expansion: getting longer
Volume expansion: taking up more space
Heat: going with the flow (of thermal
energy)
Getting specific with temperature changes
Just a new phase: adding heat without changing temperature
Here, take my coat: how heat is transferred:
Convection: letting the heat flow
Hot fluid rises: putting fluid in motion with natural convection
Controlling the flow with forced convection
Too hot to handle: getting in touch with conduction
Finding the conduction equation
Considering conductors and insulators
Radiation: riding the (electromagnetic) wave
Mutual radiation: giving and receiving heat
Blackbodies: absorbing and reflecting radiation
In the best of all possible worlds: the idea gas law:
Digging into molecules and moles with Avogadro's number
Relating pressure, volume, and temperature with the ideal gas law
Forging the ideal gas law
Working with standard temperature and pressure
Breathing problem: checking your oxygen
Boyle's and Charles's laws: alternative expressions of the ideal gas law
Tracking ideal gas molecules with the kinetic energy formula
Predicting air molecule speed
Calculating kinetic energy in an ideal gas
Heat and work: the laws of thermodynamics:
Thermal equilibrium: getting temperature with the Zeroth law Conserving energy: the first law of thermodynamics
Calculating with conservation of energy
Staying constant: isobaric isochoric, isothermal, and adiabatic processes
Flowing from hot to cold: the second law of thermodynamics
Heat engines: putting heat to work
Limiting efficiency: Carnot says you can't have it all
Going against the flow with heat pumps
Going cold: the third (and absolute last) law of thermodynamics
Part 5:
Part Of Tens:
Ten physics heroes:
Galileo Galilei
Robert Hooke
Sir Isaac Newton
Benjamin Franklin
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Amedeo Avogadro
Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
James Prescott Joule
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
Albert Einstein
Ten wild physics theories:
You can measure a smallest distance
There may be a smallest time
Heisenberg says you can't be certain
Black holes don't let light out
Gravity curves space
Matter and antimatter destroy each other
Supernovas are the most powerful explosions
Universe starts with the big bang and ends with the gnab big
Microwave ovens are hot physics
Is the universe made to measure?
Glossary
Index.
More Details
Published
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Publishing, Inc., c2011.
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 384 pages : ill ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
Description
Overview: The fun and easy way to get up to speed on the basic concepts of physics For high school and undergraduate students alike, physics classes are recommended or required courses for a wide variety of majors, and continue to be a challenging and often confusing course. Physics I For Dummies tracks specifically to an introductory course and, keeping with the traditionally easy-to-follow Dummies style, teaches you the basic principles and formulas in a clear and concise manner, proving that you don't have to be Einstein to understand physics!: Explains the basic principles in a simple, clear, and entertaining fashion; New edition includes updated examples and explanations, as well as the newest discoveries in the field; Contains the newest teaching techniques; If just thinking about the laws of physics makes your head spin, this hands-on, friendly guide gets you out of the black hole and sheds light on this often-intimidating subject.