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Physics for scientists and engineers : with modern physics
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- Creator
- Paul A. Tipler, Gene Mosca
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Sixth, [extended]
- New York : W.H. Freeman, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xxxii, 1412 pages, 7 pages, 30 pages, 51 pages, 26 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780716789642, 0716789647
- OCLC
- ocn185035260
- Includes index.
- Measurement and vectors -- Motion in one dimension -- Motion in two and three dimensions -- Newton's Laws -- Additional applications of Newton's Laws -- Work and kinetic energy -- Conservation of energy -- Conservation of linear momentum -- Rotation -- Angular momentum -- Special relativity -- Gravity -- Static equilibrium and elasticity -- Fluids -- Oscillations -- Traveling waves -- Super-position and standing waves -- Temperature and kinetic theory of gases -- Heat and the first law of thermodynamics -- The second law of thermodynamics -- Thermal properties and processes -- The electric field I : discrete charge distributions -- The electric field II : continuous charge distributions -- Electric potential -- Capacitance -- Electric current and direct-current circuits -- The magnetic field -- Sources of the magnetic field -- Magnetic induction -- Alternating-current circuits -- Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves -- Properties of light -- Optical images -- Interference and diffraction -- Wave-particle duality and quantum physics -- Applications of the Schrödinger equation -- Atoms -- Molecules -- Solids -- Relativity -- Nuclear physics -- Elementary particles and the beginning of the universe