Physics: Foundations and Applications. Vol. 1 – Robert Eisberg, Lawrence S. Lerner – 1st Edition

PREFACE

Chapter 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS
1-1 What Is Physics?
1-2 The Domains of Physics
1-3 Force and Motion in Newtonian Mechanics

Chapter 2: KINEMATICS IN ONE DIMENSION
2-1 One-Dimensional Motion
2-2 Position and Units of Length
2-3 Time and Units of Time
2-4 Velocity
2-5 Differentiation
2-6 Acceleration
2-7 Velocity and Position for Constant Acceleration
2-8 Vertical Free Fall
Exercises

Chapter 3 KINEMATICS IN TWO AND THREE DIMENSIONS
3-1 Projectile Motion
3-2 Properties of Vectors
3-3 Position, Velocity, and Acceleration Vectors
3-4 The Parabolic Trajectory
3-5 Uniform Circular Motion and Centripetal Acceleration
3-6 The Minimum-Orbit Earth Satellite
3-7 The Conical Pendulum and the Banking of Curves
3-8 The Galilean Transformations
Exercises

Chapter 4 NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION
4-1 Newton's First Law and Inertial Reference Frames
4-2 Newton's Second and Third Laws
4-3 Mass and Momentum Conservation
4-4 Force and Newton's Second Law
4-5 Momentum Conservation and Newton's Third Law
4-6 Forces in Mechanical Systems
Exercises

Chapter 5 APPLICATIONS OF NEWTON'S LAWS
5-1 The Free-Body Diagram
5-2 Atwood's Machine and Similar Systems
5-3 Motion with Contact Friction
5-4 Fictitious Forces
5-5 Rockets
5-6 The Skydiver
Exercises

Chapter 6 OSCILLATORY MOTION
6-1 Stable Equilibrium and Oscillatory Motion
6-2 The Body at the End of a Spring
6-3 The Simple Pendulum
6-4 Numerical Solution of Differential Equations
6-5 Analytical Solution of the Harmonic Oscillator Equation
6-6 The Damped Oscillator
Exercises

Chapter 7 ENERGY RELATIONS
7-1 A Preview of Energy Relations
7-2 Work Done by a Variable Force
7-3 Integration
7-4 Work and Kinetic Energy
7-5 Conservative Forces
7-6 Potential Energy and Energy Conservation
7-7 Evaluation of Force from Potential Energy
Exercises

Chapter 8 APPLICATIONS OF ENERGY RELATIONS
8-1 Power
8-2 Machines
8-3 Impulse and Collisions
8-4 Harmonic Oscillations
8-5 Lightly Damped Oscillations
Exercises

Chapter 9 ROTATIONAL MOTION, I
9-1 Rotational Kinematics for a Fixed Axis
9-2 Rotational Kinematics for a Free Axis
9-3 Angular Momentum
9-4 Torque
9-5 Rotation of Systems and Angular Momentum Conservation
9-6 Static Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies and Center of Mass
9-7 Stability of Equilibrium
Exercises

Chapter 10 ROTATIONAL MOTION, II
10-1 Moment of Inertia
10-2 The Physical Pendulum and the Torsion Pendulum
10-3 The Top
10-4 Rotation about an Accelerating Center of Mass
10-5 Energy in Rotational Motion
Exercises

Chapter 11 GRAVITATION AND CENTRAL FORCE MOTION
11-1 Universal Gravitation
11-2 Determination of the Universal Gravitational Constant G
11-3 The Mechanics of Circular Orbits: Analytical Treatment
11-4 Reduced Mass
11-5 The Mechanics of Orbits: Numerical Treatment
11-6 Energy in Gravitational Orbits
11-7 Perturbations and Orbit Stability
Exercises

Chapter 12 MECHANICAL TRAVELING WAVES
12-1 Traveling Waves
12-2 Wave Trains
12-3 The Wave Equation
12-4 Traveling-Wave Solutions to the Wave Equation
12-5 Energy in Waves
12-6 Longitudinal Waves and Multidimensional Waves
12-7 The Doppler Effect
Exercises

Chapter 13 SUPERPOSITION OF MECHANICAL WAVES
13-1 Superposition of Waves
13-2 Reflection of Waves
13-3 Standing Waves
13-4 Standing-Wave Solutions to the Wave Equation
13-5 Standing Waves on a Circular Membrane
13-6 Acoustics
13-7 Fourier Synthesis
13-8 The Physics of Music
Exercises

Chapter 14 RELATIVISTIC KINEMATICS
14-1 The Relativistic Domain
14-2 The Speed of Light
14-3 The Equivalence of Inertial Frames
14-4 Simultaneity
14-5 Time Dilation and Length Contraction
14-6 The Lorentz Position-Time Transformation
14-7 The Lorentz Velocity Transformation
Exercises

Chapter 15 RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS
15-1 The Basis of Relativistic Mechanics
15-2 Relativistic Mass and Momentum
15-3 Relativistic Force and Energy
15-4 Relativistic Energy Relations
15-5 Energy and Rest Mass in Chemical and Nuclear Reactions
15-6 Nuclear Reaction Q Values
Exercises

ANSWERS
INDEX