Physics
An accessible, problem-solving approach to physics, grounded in real-world applications James Walker's Physics provides students with a solid conceptual understanding of physics that can be expressed quantitatively and applied to the world around them. Instructors and students praise Walker�...
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Upper Saddle River, NJ
Pearson/Prentice Hall
2017
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| Edition: | Fifth edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to physics
- One-dimensional kinematics
- Vectors in physics
- Two-dimensional kinematics
- Newton's laws of motion
- Applications of Newton's laws
- Work and kinetic energy
- Potential energy and conservation of energy
- Linear momentum and collisions
- Rotational kinematics and energy
- Rotational dynamics and static equilibrium
- Gravity
- Oscillations about equilibrium
- Waves and sound
- Fluids
- Temperature and heat
- Phases and phase changes
- The laws of thermodynamics
- Electric charges, forces, and fields
- Electric potential and electric potential energy
- Electric current and direct-current circuits
- Magnetism
- Magnetic flux and Faraday's law of induction
- Alternating-current circuits
- Electromagnetic waves
- Geometrical optics
- Optical instruments
- Physical optics: interference and diffraction
- Relativity
- Quantum physics
- Atomic physics
- Nuclear physics and nuclear radiation