Physics I For Dummies. Steven Holzner

you push it.FIGURE 11-8: You produce a useful angle of a lever arm by exerting force in the...FIGURE 11-9: A turning motion toward larger positive angles indicates a positiv...FIGURE 11-10: A schematic of the forces acting on Hercules’s arm.FIGURE 11-11: Hanging a heavy flag requires some serious torque.FIGURE 11-12: Keeping a ladder upright requires friction and rotational equilib...

      11 Chapter 12FIGURE 12-1: A tangential force applied to a ball on a string.FIGURE 12-2: The shapes corresponding to the moments of inertia in Table 12-1.FIGURE 12-3: You use the torque you apply and the angular motion of the pulley ...FIGURE 12-4: Exerting a force to turn a tire.FIGURE 12-5: A solid cylinder and a hollow cylinder ready to race down a ramp.

      12 Chapter 13FIGURE 13-1: The direction of force exerted by a spring.FIGURE 13-2: A ball on a spring, influenced by gravity.FIGURE 13-3: Tracking a ball’s simple harmonic motion over time.FIGURE 13-4: The vertical component of the displacement of an object moving in ...FIGURE 13-5: A reference circle helps you analyze simple harmonic motion.FIGURE 13-6: A pendulum moves in simple harmonic motion.

      13 Chapter 14FIGURE 14-1: Linear expansion usually takes place when you apply heat to solids...FIGURE 14-2: Phase changes of water.

      14 Chapter 15FIGURE 15-1: You can see convection in action by boiling a pot of water.FIGURE 15-2: Conduction heats the pot that holds the boiling water.FIGURE 15-3: Conducting heat in a bar of steel.FIGURE 15-4: An incandescent light bulb radiates heat into its environment.

      15 Chapter 16FIGURE 16-1: For an ideal gas, pressure is directly proportional to temperature...

      16 Chapter 17FIGURE 17-1: An isobaric system may feature a change in volume, but the pressur...FIGURE 17-2: Pressure and volume in an isobaric system.FIGURE 17-3: An isochoric system features a constant volume as other quantities...FIGURE 17-4: Because volume is constant in an isochoric process, no work is don...FIGURE 17-5: An isothermal system maintains a constant temperature amidst other...FIGURE 17-6: The area under the curve shows the work done in an isothermal proc...FIGURE 17-7: An adiabatic system doesn’t allow heat to escape or enter.FIGURE 17-8: An adiabatic graph of pressure versus volume.FIGURE 17-9: A heat engine turns heat into work.

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      3  Copyright

      4 Table of Contents

      5  Begin Reading

      6  Glossary

      7  Index

      8  About the Author

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