Foundation of Physics for Scientists and Engineers Volume I: Mechanics, Heat and Sound
Publisher: Bookboon
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740310023
Table of contents: title: Physical Measurement and Units; title: The International System of Units (SI); title: SI Unit of Mass; title: Atomic Mass Unit; title: SI Unit of Time; title: Problems; title: Scalars and Vectors; title: Physics a Mathematical Science; title: Vector Addition and Subtraction; title: The Component Method; title: Unit Vectors and Representations; title: Vector Multiplications; title: Problems; title: Motion in One Dimension; title: Position and Displacement; title: Velocity; title: Acceleration and Deceleration; title: Time Independent Relations; title: Free Fall in Vacuum; title: Problems; title: Motion in Two and Three Dimensions; title: Position and Displacement; title: Motion in a Plane; title: Circular Motion; title: Frequency and Period; title: Problems; title: Force and Dynamics; title: Newton’s First Law; title: Newton’s Second Law; title: Newton’s Third Law; title: Weight; title: Elastic Force; title: Friction and Dissipative Forces; title: Dynamics of Uniform Circular Motion, The Centripetal Force; title: Problems; title: Work, Energy and Conservation of Energy; title: Variable Force; title: Conservation of Energy; title: Problems; title: Momentum, Impulse and Conservation of Momentum; title: Center of Mass; title: Newton’s Second Law, revisited; title: Impulse; title: Conservation of Momentum; title: Scattering; title: Problems; title: Rotation; title: Angular Displacement; title: Angular Velocity; title: Angular Acceleration; title: Torque; title: Angular Momentum; title: Newton’s Second Law in rotational motion; title: Angular Momentum, Rotational Kinetic Energy and the Moment of Inertia; title: Calculation of Moment of Inertia; title: Conservation of Angular Momentum; title: Problems; title: Statics and Elasticity; title: Static Equilibrium; title: Center of Gravity; title: Elasticity; title: Modulus of Elasticity; title: Elasticity and Plasticity; title: Problems; title: Gravity; title: Gravity and Newton’s Second Law; title: Gauss’s Law of Gravity; title: Gravitational Potential; title: Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion; title: Orbits of Planets, Spaceships and Satellites; title: Problems; title: Oscillations; title: Simple Harmonic Motion; title: The Simple Pendulum; title: Problems; title: Fluid Mechanics; title: Density; title: Pressure; title: Fluid Dynamics; title: Problems; title: Wave Mechanics; title: Longitudinal and Transverse Waves; title: Frequency, Period and Wavelength; title: Wave Velocity; title: Vibrating String; title: The Wave Equation; title: Solution to the Wave Equation; title: Power and Intensity of Waves; title: Interference, Standing Waves and Resonances; title: Problems; title: Sound; title: Sound Waves; title: Speed of Sound; title: Intensity of Sound; title: Beat; title: The Doppler Effect; title: Problems; title: Heat and Thermodynamics; title: Temperature; title: Units of Temperature; title: The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics; title: Thermal Expansion; title: Heat; title: Heat Conduction; title: Heat and Work; title: First Law of Thermodynamics; title: Problems; title: The Kinetic Theory of Gases; title: Mole and the Avogadro’s Number; title: Ideal Gas; title: Temperature and Pressure of Gases; title: Kinetic Energy of Gases; title: Adiabatic Processes; title: Problems; title: Entropy and Second Law of Thermodynamics; title: Reversible and Irreversible Processes; title: Enthalpy and Latent Heat; title: Carnot Cycle; title: Problems