brief contents

part 1
Mechanics 1 part 2
1 Physics and Measurement 2 Oscillations and
2 Motion in One Dimension 20
3 Vectors 55
Mechanical Waves 433

4 Motion in Two Dimensions 73 15 Oscillatory Motion 434

5 The Laws of Motion 103 16 Wave Motion 465
6 Circular Motion and Other Applications 17 Sound Waves 488
of Newton’s Laws 139
18 Superposition and Standing Waves 511
7 Energy of a System 165
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Conservation of Energy 199
Linear Momentum and Collisions 234
part 3
10 Rotation of a Rigid Object About
a Fixed Axis 277
Thermodynamics 543

11 Angular Momentum 319 19 Temperature 544

12 Static Equilibrium and Elasticity 348 20 The First Law of Thermodynamics 565

13 Universal Gravitation 374 21 The Kinetic Theory of Gases 599

14 Fluid Mechanics 402 22 Heat Engines, Entropy, and the Second Law
of Thermodynamics 625

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