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Full Description
This is an essential core textbook for the Intermediate First Physics Course. The book aims to help students understand that equations in physics express concepts, and encourages them to reason out ideas and improve their problem solving skills. The need to understand logic, basic concepts and principles of physics has been stressed throughout the text. Numerous examples are given within the text to help students understand the principles and concepts being discussed and, at the end of each chapter, qualitative questions are given for students to solve. Simple mathematics has been used throughout and the book is well-illustrated.
Contents
1. Introduction and Useful Mathematical Concepts ; Introduction ; Physical Quantities and Units of Measurement ; Errors and Uncertainties ; Dimensions ; 2. Scalars and Vectors ; Reviewing Scalars and Vectors ; Vector Addition ; Vector Components and Rule of Vector Addition by Rectangular Components ; Scalar Product ; Vector Product ; Equilibrium Forces ; Torque ; 3. Equations of Motion and Newton's Laws ; Displacement and Translation ; Speed and Velocity ; Acceleration ; Equations of Motion ; Velocity-time Graphs ; Vertical Motion and Equations of Vertical Motion ; A Brief Discussion of Newton's Laws of Motion ; Newton's Second Law and Momentum ; Impulse ; Momentum and Conservation of Linear Momentum ; Elastic Collision ; Rocket Propulsion ; Projectile Motion: Velocity in Two Dimensions ; Introduction to Relative Motion ; 4. Work, Power and Energy ; Work ; Power ; Energy ; Law of Conservation of Energy ; Non-conventional Enery Resources ; 5. Angular Motion ; Angular Motion ; Centripetal Acceleration and Force ; Moment of Inertia ; Angular Momentum ; Kinetic Energy of Rotating Body ; Artificial Satellites ; 6. Fluids ; Fluids ; Air Friction and Drag Forces ; Fluid Dynamics and Fluid Flow ; Equation of Continuity ; Bernoulli's Principle ; 7. Simple Harmonic Motion ; Oscillations ; Simple Harmonic Motion ; Free and Forced Oscillations ; Resonance ; Damped Oscillations ; 8. Waves and Sound ; Waves ; Speed of Sound ; Superposition of Waves and Interference ; Stationary or Standing Waves ; Vibrating Air Columns ; The Doppler Effect and its Applications ; Some Applications of Sound and Ultrasound ; 9. Light and Optics ; Light and Optics ; Wave Fronts and Rays ; Huygen's Principle ; Interference of Light ; Diffraction ; Polarisation of Light ; 10. Optical Instruments ; Optical Instruments ; Simple Microscope ; Compound Microscope ; The Astronomical Telescope ; The Spectrometer ; Speed of Light ; Fibre Optics ; 11. Heat and Thermodynamics ; Introduction to Heat and Thermodynamics ; Kinetic Theory of Gases ; Thermodynamics ; The Second Law of Thermodynamics ; Entropy
