Knight, Randall D.

Physics for scientists and engineers : a strategic approach with modern physics / Randall D. Knight - 3rd ed. - Uttar Pradesh : Pearson Education, 2017 - xxix, 1435 p.

Part I Newton's Laws --
1. Concepts of Motion --
2. Kinematics in One Dimension --
3. Vectors and Coordinate Systems --
4. Kinematics in Two Dimensions --
5. Force and Motion --
6. Dynamics I: Motion Along a Line --
7. Newton's Third Law --
8. Dynamics II: Motion in a Plane --
Part II Conservation Laws --
9. Impulse and Momentum --
10. Energy --
11. Work --
Part III Applications of Newtonian Mechanics --
12. Rotation of a Rigid Body --
13. Newton's Theory of Gravity --
14. Oscillations --
15. Fluids and Elasticity --
Part IV Thermodynamics --
16. A Macroscopic Description of Matter --17. Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics --
18. The Micro/Macro Connection --
19. Heat Engines and Refrigerators --
Part V Waves and Optics --
20. Traveling Waves --
21. Superposition --
22. Wave Optics --
23. Ray Optics --
24. Optical Instruments --
Part VI Electricity and Magnetism --
25. Electric Charges and Forces --
26. The Electric Field --
27. Gauss's Law --
28. The Electric Potential --
29. Potential and Field --
30. Current and Conductivity --
31. Fundamentals of Circuits --
32. The Magnetic Field --
33. Electromagnetic Induction --
34. Electromagnetic Fields and Waves --
35. AC Circuits --
Part VII Relativity and Quantum Physics --
36. Relativity --
37. The End of Classical Physics --
38. Quantization --
39. Wave Functions and Probabilities --
40. One-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics --
41. Atomic Physics --


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