Student Study Guide and Solutions Manual for University Physics, Volume 1 (Chapters 1-20)

Brief Contents

MECHANICS

1. Units, Physical Quantities, and Vectors
2. Motion Along a Straight Line
3. Motion in Two or Three Dimensions
4. Newton’s Laws of Motion
5. Applying Newton’s Laws
6. Work and Kinetic Energy
7. Potential Energy and Energy Conservation
8. Momentum, Impulse, and Collisions
9. Rotation of Rigid Bodies
10. Dynamics of Rotational Motion
11. Equilibrium and Elasticity
12. Fluid Mechanics
13. Gravitation
14. Periodic Motion

WAVES/ACOUSTICS

1. Mechanical Waves
2. Sound and Hearing

THERMODYNAMICS

1. Temperature and Heat
2. Thermal Properties of Matter
3. The First Law of Thermodynamics
4. The Second Law of Thermodynamics

ELECTROMAGNETISM

1. Electric Charge and Electric Field
2. Gauss’s Law
3. Electric Potential
4. Capacitance and Dielectrics
5. Current, Resistance, and Electromotive Force
6. Direct-Current Circuits
7. Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces
8. Sources of Magnetic Field
9. Electromagnetic Induction
10. Inductance
11. Alternating Current
12. Electromagnetic Waves

OPTICS

1. The Nature and Propagation of Light
2. Geometric Optics
3. Interference
4. Diffraction

MODERN PHYSICS

1. Relativity
2. Photons: Light Waves Behaving as Particles
3. Particles Behaving as Waves
4. Quantum Mechanics I: Wave Functions
5. Quantum Mechanics II: Atomic Structure
6. Molecules and Condensed Matter
7. Nuclear Physics
8. Particle Physics and Cosmology