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Physics For Dummies

Physics For Dummies


By Steve Holzner, Ph.D.

ISBN: 978-0-7645-5433-9
Format: Paper
Pages: 384 Pages
Pub. Date: December 2005

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Introduction

Part I: Putting Physics into Motion.

Chapter 1: Using Physics to Understand Your World.

Chapter 2: Understanding Physics Fundamentals.

Chapter 3: Exploring the Need for Speed.

Chapter 4: Following Directions: Which Way Are You Going?

Part II: May the Forces of Physics Be with You.

Chapter 5: When Push Comes to Shove: Force.

Chapter 6: What a Drag: Inclined Planes and Friction.

Chapter 7: Circling around Circular Motions and Orbits.

Part III: Manifesting the Energy to Work.

Chapter 8: Getting Some Work out of Physics.

Chapter 9: Putting Objects in Motion: Momentum and Impulse.

Chapter 10: Winding Up with Angular Kinetics.

Chapter 11: Round and Round with Rotational Dynamics.

Chapter 12: Springs-n-Things: Simple Harmonic Motion.

Part IV: Laying Down the Laws of Thermodynamics.

Chapter 13: Turning Up the Heat with Thermodynamics.

Chapter 14: Here, Take My Coat: Heat Transfer in Solids and Gases.

Chapter 15: When Heat and Work Collide: The Laws of Thermodynamics.

Part V: Getting a Charge out of Electricity and Magnetism.

Chapter 16: Zapping Away with Static Electricity.

Chapter 17: Giving Electrons a Push with Circuits.

Chapter 18: Magnetism: More than Attraction.

Chapter 19: Keeping the Current Going with Voltage.

Chapter 20: Shedding Some Light on Mirrors and Lenses.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 21: Ten Amazing Insights on Relativity.

Chapter 22: Ten Wild Physics Theories.

Glossary.

Index.

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