Published by Pearson (May 10, 2020) © 2020
Eugenia Etkina | Gorazd Planinsic | Alan Van HeuvelenProduct Information
College Physics helps you learn physics by doing physics. This approach helps you build the foundations for conceptual understanding and develop more sophisticated reasoning and problem-solving skills that can be applied to complex situations.
- Introducing physics
- Kinematics: Motion in one dimension
- Newtonian mechanics
- Applying Newton’s laws
- Circular motion
- Impulse and linear momentum
- Work and energy
- Extended bodies at rest
- Rotational motion
- Vibrational motion
- Waves
- Gases
- Static fluids
- Fluids in motion
- First law of thermodynamics
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Electric charge, force, and energy
- The electric field
- DC circuits
- Magnetism
- Electromagnetic induction
- Reflection and refraction
- Mirrors and lenses
- Wave optics
- Electromagnetic waves
- Special relativity
- Quantum optics
- Atomic physics
- Nuclear physics
- Particle physics