Physics I For Dummies. Steven Holzner

Vectors on the Grid A Little Trig: Breaking Up Vectors into Components Featuring Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration in two dimensions Accelerating Downward: Motion under the Influence of Gravity

      6  Part 2: May the Forces of Physics Be with You Chapter 5: When Push Comes to Shove: Force Newton’s First Law: Resisting with Inertia Newton’s Second Law: Relating Force, Mass, and Acceleration Newton’s Third Law: Looking at Equal and Opposite Forces Chapter 6: Getting Down with Gravity, Inclined Planes, and Friction Acceleration Due to Gravity: One of Life’s Little Constants Finding a New Angle on Gravity with Inclined Planes Getting Sticky with Friction Let’s Get Fired Up! Sending Objects Airborne Chapter 7: Circling Around Rotational Motion and Orbits Centripetal Acceleration: Changing Direction to Move in a Circle Seeking the Center: Centripetal Force Getting Angular with Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration Letting Gravity Supply Centripetal Force Looping the Loop: Vertical Circular Motion Chapter 8: Go with the Flow: Looking at Pressure in Fluids Mass Density: Getting Some Inside Information Applying Pressure Buoyancy: Float Your Boat with Archimedes’s Principle Fluid Dynamics: Going with Fluids in Motion Getting Up to Speed on Flow and Pressure

      7  Part 3: Manifesting the Energy to Work Chapter 9: Getting Some Work Out of Physics Looking for Work Making a Move: Kinetic Energy Energy in the Bank: Potential Energy Choose Your Path: Conservative versus Nonconservative Forces Keeping the Energy Up: The Conservation of Mechanical Energy Powering Up: The Rate of Doing Work Chapter 10: Putting Objects in Motion: Momentum and Impulse Looking at the Impact of Impulse Gathering Momentum The Impulse-Momentum Theorem: Relating Impulse and Momentum When Objects Go Bonk: Conserving Momentum When Worlds (Or Cars) Collide: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions Chapter 11: Winding Up with Angular Kinetics Going from Linear to Rotational Motion Understanding Tangential Motion Applying Vectors to Rotation Doing the Twist: Torque Spinning at Constant Velocity: Rotational Equilibrium Chapter 12: Round and Round with Rotational Dynamics Rolling Up Newton’s Second Law into Angular Motion Moments of Inertia: Looking into Mass Distribution Wrapping Your Head around Rotational Work and Kinetic Energy Can’t Stop This: Angular Momentum Chapter 13: Springs ’n’ Things: Simple Harmonic Motion Bouncing Back with Hooke’s Law Getting Around to Simple Harmonic Motion Factoring Energy into Simple Harmonic Motion Swinging with Pendulums

      8  Part 4: Laying Down the Laws of Thermodynamics Chapter 14: Turning Up the Heat with Thermodynamics Measuring Temperature The Heat Is On: Thermal Expansion Heat: Going with the Flow (Of Thermal Energy) Chapter 15: Here, Take My Coat: How Heat Is Transferred Convection: Letting the Heat Flow Too Hot to Handle: Getting in Touch with Conduction Radiation: Riding the (Electromagnetic) Wave Chapter 16: In the Best of All Possible Worlds: The Ideal Gas Law Digging into Molecules and Moles with Avogadro’s Number Relating Pressure, Volume, and Temperature with the Ideal Gas Law Tracking