Physics, 3rd Edition

This Physics textbook presents the basic concepts of physics that students need to know for later courses and future careers. This text helps students learn that physics is a tool for understanding the real world, and to teach transferable problem-solving skills, that students can use throughout their entire lives. Some of the most important enhancements in this edition include: new/updated MCAT exam coverage added and moved online, review and synthesis problems added, new biomedical applications, lists of biomedical applications at the beginning of each chapter, new ranking tasks, checkpoints, and collaborative problems. Connections have also been enhanced to help students see the bigger picture.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

PART ONE Mechanics
Chapter 2 Motion Along a Line
Chapter 3 Motion in a Plane
Chapter 4 Force and NewtonÕs Laws of Motion
Chapter 5 Circular Motion
Chapter 6 Conservation of Energy
Chapter 7 Linear Momentum
Chapter 8 Torque and Angular Momentum
Chapter 9 Fluids
Chapter 10 Elasticity and Oscillations
Chapter 11 Waves
Chapter 12 Sound

PART TWO Thermal Physics
Chapter 13 Temperature and the Ideal Gas
Chapter 14 Heat
Chapter 15 Thermodynamics

PART THREE Electromagnetism
Chapter 16 Electric Forces and Fields
Chapter 17 Electric Potential
Chapter 18 Electric Current and Circuits
Chapter 19 Magnetic Forces and Fields
Chapter 20 Electromagnetic Induction
Chapter 21 Alternating Current

PART FOUR Electromagnetic Waves and Optics
Chapter 22 Electromagnetic Waves
Chapter 23 Reflection and Refraction of Light
Chapter 24 Optical Instruments
Chapter 25 Interference and Diffraction

PART FIVE Quantum and Particle Physics and Relativity
Chapter 26 Relativity
Chapter 27 Early Quantum Physics and the Photon
Chapter 28 Quantum Physics
Chapter 29 Nuclear Physics
Chapter 30 Particle Physics

Appendix A Mathematics Review
Appendix B Table of Selected Nuclides