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Giancoli, Douglas C.

Physics : principles with applications / Douglas C. Giancoli. - 3rd ed. - Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1991. - xxi, 962 p. ill. (some col.), map ; 27 cm.

includes index


1. Introduction
2. Describing Motion: Kinematics in One Dimension
3. Kinematics in Two or three Dimensions; Vectors
4. Motion and force: dynamics
5. Circular motion: gravitation
6. Work and energy
7. Linear momentum
8. Rotational motion
9. Bodies in equilibrium: elasticity and fracture
10. Vibrations and waves temperature and kinetic theory
11. Heat
12. The first and second laws of thermodynamics
13. Electric charge and electric field
14. Electric potential and electric energy
15. Electric currents
16. Dc circuits and instruments
17. Magnetism
18. Electromagnetic induction and faraday's law: ac circuits
19. Electromagnetic waves
20. Light: geometric optics
21. The wave nature of light
22. Optical instruments
23. Special theory of relativity
24. Early quantum theory and models of the atom
25. Quantum mechanics of atoms
26. Molecules and solids
27. Nuclear physics and radioactivity
28. Nuclear energy: effects and uses of radiation
29. Elementary particles
30. Astrophysics and cosmology


ISBN: 0136725104 0136667694

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Physics.

Dewey Class. No.: 530 / G433