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Contents
INTRODUCTION 1PART I GETTING STARTED WITH PHYSICS 5Chapter 1: Using Physics to Understand Your World 7Chapter 2: Reviewing Physics Measurement and Math Fundamentals 15Chapter 3: Exploring the Need for Speed 35Chapter 4: Following Directions: Motion in Two Dimensions 61Chapter 5: When Push Comes to Shove: Force 89Chapter 6: Getting Down with Gravity, Inclined Planes, and Friction 111Chapter 7: Circling Around Rotational Motion and Orbits 129Chapter 8: Go with the Flow: Looking at Pressure in Fluids 159PART III WORKING ENERGETICALLY 187Chapter 9: Getting Some Work Out of Physics 189Chapter 10: Putting Objects in Motion: Momentum and Impulse 215Chapter 11: Winding Up with Angular Motion 237Chapter 12: Round and Round with Rotational Dynamics 265Chapter 13: Springs n Things: Simple Harmonic Motion 285Chapter 14: Turning Up the Heat with Thermodynamics 311Chapter 15: Here, Take My Coat: How Heat Is Transferred 329Chapter 16: In the Best of All Possible Worlds: The Ideal Gas Law 345Chapter 17: Heat and Work: The Laws of Thermodynamics 357Chapter 18: Ten Common Mistakes People Make When Solving Problems 383Chapter 19: Ten Wild Physics Theories 387INDEX 393
