![]() Physics For Dummies
ISBN: 978-0-7645-5433-9
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384 pages
December 2005
US $19.99
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Part I: Putting Physics into Motion.
Chapter 1: Using Physics to Understand Your World.
Chapter 2: Understanding Physics Fundamentals.
Chapter 3: Exploring the Need for Speed.
Chapter 4: Following Directions: Which Way Are You Going?
Part II: May the Forces of Physics Be with You.
Chapter 5: When Push Comes to Shove: Force.
Chapter 6: What a Drag: Inclined Planes and Friction.
Chapter 7: Circling around Circular Motions and Orbits.
Part III: Manifesting the Energy to Work.
Chapter 8: Getting Some Work out of Physics.
Chapter 9: Putting Objects in Motion: Momentum and Impulse.
Chapter 10: Winding Up with Angular Kinetics.
Chapter 11: Round and Round with Rotational Dynamics.
Chapter 12: Springs-n-Things: Simple Harmonic Motion.
Part IV: Laying Down the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Chapter 13: Turning Up the Heat with Thermodynamics.
Chapter 14: Here, Take My Coat: Heat Transfer in Solids and Gases.
Chapter 15: When Heat and Work Collide: The Laws of Thermodynamics.
Part V: Getting a Charge out of Electricity and Magnetism.
Chapter 16: Zapping Away with Static Electricity.
Chapter 17: Giving Electrons a Push with Circuits.
Chapter 18: Magnetism: More than Attraction.
Chapter 19: Keeping the Current Going with Voltage.
Chapter 20: Shedding Some Light on Mirrors and Lenses.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 21: Ten Amazing Insights on Relativity.
Chapter 22: Ten Wild Physics Theories.
Glossary.
Index.
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