About the Authors
A NotefromtheAuthors
Preface
Additional Resourcesfor Instructors and Students
360。Development
The Big Picture
Part 1:Mechanics of Point Particles
1 Overview
1.1 Why Study Physics?
1.2 Working with Numbers
1.3 SI Unit system
1.4 The Scalas ofourWorld
1.5 General Problem—Solving Strategy
1.6 vectors
What We Have Learned/Exam Study Guide
Multiple—Choice Questions/Questions/Problems
2 Motion in a Straight Line
2.1 Introduction to Kinematics
2.2 Position Vector,Displacement Vector,
and Distance
2.3 VelocityVector,AverageVelocity,and Speed
2.4 Acceleration Vector
2.5 Computer Solutions and Difference Formulas
2.6 Finding Displacement and Velocity from
Accderation
2.7 Morion with Constant Acceleration
2.8 Reducing Motion in More Than One Dimension to
One Dimension
What We Have Learned/Exam Study Guide
Multiple—Choice Questions/Questions/Problems
3 Motion{n Two and Three
Dimensions
3.1 Three—Dimensional COOrdinate
Systems
3.2 Velocity and Accderation in a Plane
3.3 Ideal Projectile Motion
3.4 Maximum Height and Range of a Projectile
3.5 Realistic Projectile Motion
3.6 Relative Morion
What We Have Learned/Exam StudyGuide
Multiple—Choice Questions/Questions/Problems
Part 2:Extended Objects, Mater, and Circular Motion
Part 3:Oscillations and Waves
Part 4:Thermal Physics
Part 5:Electricity
Part 6:Magnetism
Part 7:Optics
Part 8:Relativity and Quantum Physics