Preface
Study Skills

1. THE STUDY OF MOTION.

Prologue : Drag Racing.
Introduction.
Physical Quantities : The Vocabulary of Physics.
Speed and Velocity.
Acceleration.
Simple Types of Motion.

Summary.
Summary of Important Equations.
Mapping It Out!.
Questions.
Problems.
Challenges.
Suggested Readings.

2. NEWTON'S LAWS.

Prologue : Future Impact?.
Force.
Newton's First Law of Motion.
Mass.
Newton's Second Law of Motion.
The International System of Units (SI).
Examples : Different Forces, Different Motions.
Newton's Third Law of Motion.
The Space Shuttle : Newton's Laws of a Grand Scale.
The Law of Universal Gravitation.
Tides.

Summary.
Summary of Important Equations.
Mapping It Out!.
Questions.
Problems.
Challenges.
Suggested Readings.

3. ENERGY AND CONSERVATION LAWS.

Prologue : Big Machines-Small Particles.
Conservation Laws.
Linear Momentum.
Work : The Key to Energy.
Energy.
The Conservation of Energy.
Collisions : An Energy Point of View.
Power.
Rotation and Angular Momentum.

Summary.
Summary of Important Equations.
Mapping It Out!.
Questions.
Problems.
Challenges.
Suggested Readings.

4. PHYSICS OF MATTER.

Prologue : Lake Nyos Tragedy.
Matter : Phases, Forms, and Forces.
Pressure.
Density.
Fluid Pressure and Gravity.
Archimedes' Principles.
Pascal's Principle.
Bernoulli's Principle.
Historical Notes.

Summary.
Summary of Important Equations.
Mapping It Out!.
Questions.
Problems.
Challenges.
Suggested Readings.

5. TEMPERATURE AND HEAT.

Prologue : Solar Energy.
Temperature.
Thermal Expansion.
The First Law of Thermodynamics.
Heat Transfer.
Specific Heat Capacity.
Phase Transitions.
Heat Engines and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Summary.
Summary of Important Equations.
Mapping It Out!.
Questions.
Problems.
Challenges.
Suggested Readings.

6. WAVES AND SOUND.

Prologue : Sound Medicine.
Waves-Types and Properties.
Aspects of Wave Propagation.
Sound.
Production of Sound.
Propagation of Sound.
Perception of Sound.

Summary.
Summary of Important Equations.
Mapping It Out!.
Questions.
Problems.
Challenges.
Suggested Readings.

7. ELECTRICITY.

Prologue : The Age of the Semiconductor.
Electric Charge.
Electric Force and Coulomb's Law.
Electric Currents-Superconductivity.
Electric Circuits and Ohm's Law.
Power and Energy in Electric Currents.
AC and DC.

Summary.
Summary of Important Equations.
Mapping It Out!.
Questions.
Problems.
Challenges.
Suggested Readings.

8. ELECTROMAGNETISM AND EM WAVES.

Prologue : MRI. Magnetism.
Interactions between Electricity and Magnetism.
Principles of Electromagnetism.
Applications to Sound Reproduction.
Electromagnetic Waves.
Blackbody Radiation.
EM Waves and the Earth's Atmosphere.

Summary.
Summary of Important Equations.
Mapping It Out!.
Questions.
Problems.
Challenges.
Suggested Readings.

9. OPTICS.

Prologue : HST. Light Waves.
Mirrors : Plane and Not So Simple.
Refraction.
Lenses and Images.
The Human Eye.
Dispersion and Color.
Atmospheric Optics : Rainbows, Halos, Blue Sky.

Summary.
Summary of Important Equations.
Mapping It Out!.
Questions.
Problems.
Challenges.
Suggested Readings.

10. ATOMIC PHYSICS.

Prologue : Plowshares, Not Swords.
The Quantum Hypothesis.
The Photoelectric Effect and Photons.
Atomic Spectra.
The Bohr Model of the Atom.
Quantum Mechanics.
Atomic Structure.
X-Ray Spectra.
Lasers.

Summary.
Summary of Important Equations.
Mapping It Out!.
Questions.
Problems.
Challenges.
Suggested Readings.

11. NUCLEAR PHYSICS.

Prologue : Nuclear Power in Space.
The Nucleus. Radioactivity.
Half-Life.
Artificial Nuclear Reactions.
Nuclear Binding Energy.
Nuclear Fission.
Nuclear Fusion.

Summary.
Summary of Important Equations.
Mapping It Out!.
Questions.
Problems.
Challenges.
Suggested Readings.

12. SPECIAL RELATIVITY AND ELEMENTARY PARTICLES.

Prologue : Nu's Headlines.
Special Relativity : The Physics of High Velocity.
Forces and Particles.
Conservation Laws, Revisited.
Quarks : Order Out of Chaos.
Unification of Forces : The Electroweak Interaction and GUTs (Optional).

Summary.
Summary of Important Equations.
Mapping It Out!.
Questions. Problems.
Challenges.
Suggested Readings.

Epilogue.
Suggested Readings.

Appendices

1. Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
2. Math Review.
3. Answers.

Glossary of Key Terms and Laws
Credits
Index
Table of Conversion Factors and Other Information
Periodic Table