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Table of Contents

1 Measurement 1

1-1 MEASURING THINGS, INCLUDING LENGTHS 1

1-2 TIME 5

1-3 MASS 6

REVIEW & SUMMARY 8 PROBLEMS 8

2 Motion Along a Straight Line 13

2-1 POSITION, DISPLACEMENT, AND AVERAGE VELOCITY 13

2-2 INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY AND SPEED 18

2-3 ACCELERATION 20

2-4 CONSTANT ACCELERATION 23

2-5 FREE-FALL ACCELERATION 27

2-6 GRAPHICAL INTEGRATION IN MOTION ANALYSIS 29

REVIEW & SUMMARY 30 QUESTIONS 31 PROBLEMS 32

3 Vectors 40

3-1 VECTORS AND THEIR COMPONENTS 40

3-2 UNIT VECTORS, ADDING VECTORS BY COMPONENTS 46

3-3 MULTIPLYING VECTORS 50

REVIEW & SUMMARY 55 QUESTIONS 56 PROBLEMS 57

4 Motion in Two and Three Dimensions 62

4-1 POSITION AND DISPLACEMENT 62

4-2 AVERAGE VELOCITY AND INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY 64

4-3 AVERAGE ACCELERATION AND INSTANTANEOUS ACCELERATION 67

4-4 PROJECTILE MOTION 70

4-5 UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION 76

4-6 RELATIVE MOTION IN ONE DIMENSION 78

4-7 RELATIVE MOTION IN TWO DIMENSIONS 80

REVIEW & SUMMARY 81 QUESTIONS 82 PROBLEMS 84

5 Force and Motion—I 94

5-1 NEWTON’S FIRST AND SECOND LAWS 94

5-2 SOME PARTICULAR FORCES 102

5-3 APPLYING NEWTON’S LAWS 106

REVIEW & SUMMARY 114 QUESTIONS 114 PROBLEMS 116

6 Force and Motion—II 124

6-1 FRICTION 124

6-2 THE DRAG FORCE AND TERMINAL SPEED 130

6-3 UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION 133

REVIEW & SUMMARY 138 QUESTIONS 139 PROBLEMS 140

7 Kinetic Energy and Work 149

7-1 KINETIC ENERGY 149

7-2 WORK AND KINETIC ENERGY 151

7-3 WORK DONE BY THE GRAVITATIONAL FORCE 155

7-4 WORK DONE BY A SPRING FORCE 159

7-5 WORK DONE BY A GENERAL VARIABLE FORCE 162

7-6 POWER 166

REVIEW & SUMMARY 168 QUESTIONS 169 PROBLEMS 170

8 Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy 177

8-1 POTENTIAL ENERGY 177

8-2 CONSERVATION OF MECHANICAL ENERGY 184

8-3 READING A POTENTIAL ENERGY CURVE 187

8-4 WORK DONE ON A SYSTEM BY AN EXTERNAL FORCE 191

8-5 CONSERVATION OF ENERGY 195

REVIEW & SUMMARY 199 QUESTIONS 200 PROBLEMS 202

9 Center of Mass and Linear Momentum 214

9-1 CENTER OF MASS 214

9-2 NEWTON’S SECOND LAW FOR A SYSTEM OF PARTICLES 220

9-3 LINEAR MOMENTUM 224

9-4 COLLISION AND IMPULSE 226

9-5 CONSERVATION OF LINEAR MOMENTUM 230

9-6 MOMENTUM AND KINETIC ENERGY IN COLLISIONS 233

9-7 ELASTIC COLLISIONS IN ONE DIMENSION 237

9-8 COLLISIONS IN TWO DIMENSIONS 240

9-9 SYSTEMS WITH VARYING MASS: A ROCKET 241

REVIEW & SUMMARY 243 QUESTIONS 245 PROBLEMS 246

10 Rotation 257

10-1 ROTATIONAL VARIABLES 257

10-2 ROTATION WITH CONSTANT ANGULAR ACCELERATION 266

10-3 RELATING THE LINEAR AND ANGULAR VARIABLES 268

10-4 KINETIC ENERGY OF ROTATION 271

10-5 CALCULATING THE ROTATIONAL INERTIA 273

10-6 TORQUE 277

10-7 NEWTON’S SECOND LAW FOR ROTATION 279

10-8 WORK AND ROTATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY 282

REVIEW & SUMMARY 285 QUESTIONS 286 PROBLEMS 287

11Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum 295

11-1 ROLLING AS TRANSLATION AND ROTATION COMBINED 295

11-2 FORCES AND KINETIC ENERGY OF ROLLING 298

11-3 THE YO-YO 301

11-4 TORQUE REVISITED 302

11-5 ANGULAR MOMENTUM 305

11-6 NEWTON’S SECOND LAW IN ANGULAR FORM 307

11-7 ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF A RIGID BODY 310

11-8 CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM 312

11-9 PRECESSION OF A GYROSCOPE 317

REVIEW & SUMMARY 318 QUESTIONS 319 PROBLEMS 320

12 Equilibrium and Elasticity 327

12-1 EQUILIBRIUM 327

12-2 SOME EXAMPLES OF STATIC EQUILIBRIUM 332

12-3 ELASTICITY 338

REVIEW & SUMMARY 343 QUESTIONS 343 PROBLEMS 345

13 Gravitation 354

13-1 NEWTON’S LAW OF GRAVITATION 354

13-2 GRAVITATION AND THE PRINCIPLE OF SUPERPOSITION 357

13-3 GRAVITATION NEAR EARTH’S SURFACE 359

13-4 GRAVITATION INSIDE EARTH 362

13-5 GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY 364

13-6 PLANETS AND SATELLITES: KEPLER’S LAWS 368

13-7 SATELLITES: ORBITS AND ENERGY 371

13-8 EINSTEIN AND GRAVITATION 374

REVIEW & SUMMARY 376 QUESTIONS 377 PROBLEMS 378

14 Fluids 386

14-1 FLUIDS, DENSITY, AND PRESSURE 386

14-2 FLUIDS AT REST 388

14-3 MEASURING PRESSURE 392

14-4 PASCAL’S PRINCIPLE 393

14-5 ARCHIMEDES’ PRINCIPLE 394

14-6 THE EQUATION OF CONTINUITY 398

14-7 BERNOULLI’S EQUATION 401

REVIEW & SUMMARY 405 QUESTIONS 405 PROBLEMS 406

15 Oscillations 413

15-1 SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION 413

15-2 ENERGY IN SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION 421

15-3 AN ANGULAR SIMPLE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR 423

15-4 PENDULUMS, CIRCULAR MOTION 424

15-5 DAMPED SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION 430

15-6 FORCED OSCILLATIONS AND RESONANCE 432

REVIEW & SUMMARY 434 QUESTIONS 434 PROBLEMS 436

16 Waves—I 444

16-1 TRANSVERSE WAVES 444

16-2 WAVE SPEED ON A STRETCHED STRING 452

16-3 ENERGY AND POWER OF A WAVE TRAVELING ALONG A STRING 454

16-4 THE WAVE EQUATION 456

16-5 INTERFERENCE OF WAVES 458

16-6 PHASORS 462

16-7 STANDING WAVES AND RESONANCE 465

REVIEW & SUMMARY 470 QUESTIONS 471 PROBLEMS 472

17 Waves—II 479

17-1 SPEED OF SOUND 479

17-2 TRAVELING SOUND WAVES 482

17-3 INTERFERENCE 485

17-4 INTENSITY AND SOUND LEVEL 488

17-5 SOURCES OF MUSICAL SOUND 492

17-6 BEATS 496

17-7 THE DOPPLER EFFECT 498

17-8 SUPERSONIC SPEEDS, SHOCK WAVES 503

REVIEW & SUMMARY 504 QUESTIONS 505 PROBLEMS 506

18 Temperature, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics 514

18-1 TEMPERATURE 514

18-2 THE CELSIUS AND FAHRENHEIT SCALES 518

18-3 THERMAL EXPANSION 520

18-4 ABSORPTION OF HEAT 522

18-5 THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS 528

18-6 HEAT TRANSFER MECHANISMS 534

REVIEW & SUMMARY 538 QUESTIONS 540 PROBLEMS 541

19 The Kinetic Theory of Gases 549

19-1 AVOGADRO’S NUMBER 549

19-2 IDEAL GASES 550

19-3 PRESSURE, TEMPERATURE, AND RMS SPEED 554

19-4 TRANSLATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY 557

19-5 MEAN FREE PATH 558

19-6 THE DISTRIBUTION OF MOLECULAR SPEEDS 560

19-7 THE MOLAR SPECIFIC HEATS OF

19-8 DEGREES OF FREEDOM AND MOLAR SPECIFIC HEATS 568

19-9 THE ADIABATIC EXPANSION OF AN IDEAL GAS 571

REVIEW & SUMMARY 575 QUESTIONS 576 PROBLEMS 577

20 Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics 583

20-1 ENTROPY 583

20-2 ENTROPY IN THE REAL WORLD: ENGINES 590

20-3 REFRIGERATORS AND REAL ENGINES 595

20-4 A STATISTICAL VIEW OF ENTROPY 598

REVIEW & SUMMARY 602 QUESTIONS 603 PROBLEMS 604

21 Coulomb’s Law 609

21-1 COULOMB’S LAW 609

21-2 CHARGE IS QUANTIZED 619

21-3 CHARGE IS CONSERVED 621

REVIEW & SUMMARY 622 QUESTIONS 623 PROBLEMS 624

22 Electric Fields 630

22-1 THE ELECTRIC FIELD 630

22-2 THE ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO A CHARGED PARTICLE 633

22-3 THE ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO A DIPOLE 635

22-4 THE ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO A LINE OF CHARGE 638

22-5 THE ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO A CHARGED DISK 643

22-6 A POINT CHARGE IN AN ELECTRIC FIELD 645

22-7 A DIPOLE IN AN ELECTRIC FIELD 647

REVIEW & SUMMARY 650 QUESTIONS 651 PROBLEMS 652

23 Gauss’ Law 659

23-1 ELECTRIC FLUX 659

23-2 GAUSS’ LAW 664

23-3 A CHARGED ISOLATED CONDUCTOR 668

23-4 APPLYING GAUSS’ LAW: CYLINDRICAL SYMMETRY 671

23-5 APPLYING GAUSS’ LAW: PLANAR SYMMETRY 673

23-6 APPLYING GAUSS’ LAW: SPHERICAL SYMMETRY 675

REVIEW & SUMMARY 677 QUESTIONS 677 PROBLEMS 679

24 Electric Potential 685

24-1 ELECTRIC POTENTIAL 685

24-2 EQUIPOTENTIAL SURFACES AND THE ELECTRIC FIELD 690

24-3 POTENTIAL DUE TO A CHARGED PARTICLE 694

24-4 POTENTIAL DUE TO AN ELECTRIC DIPOLE 697

24-5 POTENTIAL DUE TO A CONTINUOUS CHARGE DISTRIBUTION 698

24-6 CALCULATING THE FIELD FROM THE POTENTIAL 701

24-7 ELECTRIC POTENTIAL ENERGY OF A SYSTEM OF CHARGED PARTICLES 703

24-8 POTENTIAL OF A CHARGED ISOLATED CONDUCTOR 706

REVIEW & SUMMARY 707 QUESTIONS 708 PROBLEMS 710

25 Capacitance 717

25-1 CAPACITANCE 717

25-2 CALCULATING THE CAPACITANCE 719

25-3 CAPACITORS IN PARALLEL AND IN SERIES 723

25-4 ENERGY STORED IN AN ELECTRIC FIELD 728

25-5 CAPACITOR WITH A DIELECTRIC 731

25-6 DIELECTRICS AND GAUSS’ LAW 735

REVIEW & SUMMARY 738 QUESTIONS 738 PROBLEMS 739

26 Current and Resistance 745

26-1 ELECTRIC CURRENT 745

26-2 CURRENT DENSITY 748

26-3 RESISTANCE AND RESISTIVITY 752

26-4 OHM’S LAW 756

26-5 POWER, SEMICONDUCTORS, SUPERCONDUCTORS 760

REVIEW & SUMMARY 763 QUESTIONS 764 PROBLEMS 765

27 Circuits 771

27-1 SINGLE-LOOP CIRCUITS 771

27-2 MULTILOOP CIRCUITS 781

27-3 THE AMMETER AND THE VOLTMETER 788

27-4 RC CIRCUITS 788

REVIEW & SUMMARY 793 QUESTIONS 793 PROBLEMS 795

28 Magnetic Fields 803

28-1 MAGNETIC FIELDS AND THE DEFINITION OF B→ 803

28-2 CROSSED FIELDS: DISCOVERY OF THE ELECTRON 808

28-3 CROSSED FIELDS: THE HALL EFFECT 810

28-4 A CIRCULATING CHARGED PARTICLE 814

28-5 CYCLOTRONS AND SYNCHROTRONS 817

28-6 MAGNETIC FORCE ON A CURRENT-CARRYING WIRE 820

28-7 TORQUE ON A CURRENT LOOP 822

28-8 THE MAGNETIC DIPOLE MOMENT 824

REVIEW & SUMMARY 827 QUESTIONS 827 PROBLEMS 829

29 Magnetic Fields Due to Currents 836

29-1 MAGNETIC FIELD DUE TO A CURRENT 836

29-2 FORCE BETWEEN TWO PARALLEL CURRENTS 842

29-3 AMPERE’S LAW 844

29-4 SOLENOIDS AND TOROIDS 848

29-5 A CURRENT-CARRYING COIL AS A MAGNETIC DIPOLE 851

REVIEW & SUMMARY 854 QUESTIONS 855 PROBLEMS 856

30 Induction and Inductance 864

30-1 FARADAY’S LAW AND LENZ’S LAW 864

30-2 INDUCTION AND ENERGY TRANSFERS 871

30-3 INDUCED ELECTRIC FIELDS 874

30-4 INDUCTORS AND INDUCTANCE 879

30-5 SELF-INDUCTION 881

30-6 RL CIRCUITS 882

30-7 ENERGY STORED IN A MAGNETIC FIELD 887

30-8 ENERGY DENSITY OF A MAGNETIC FIELD 889

30-9 MUTUAL INDUCTION 890

REVIEW & SUMMARY 893 QUESTIONS 893 PROBLEMS 895

31 Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current 903

31-1 LC OSCILLATIONS 903

31-2 DAMPED OSCILLATIONS IN AN RLC CIRCUIT 910

31-3 FORCED OSCILLATIONS OF THREE SIMPLE CIRCUITS 912

31-4 THE SERIES RLC CIRCUIT 921

31-5 POWER IN ALTERNATING-CURRENT CIRCUITS 927

31-6 TRANSFORMERS 930

REVIEW & SUMMARY 933 QUESTIONS 934 PROBLEMS 935

32 Maxwell’s Equations; Magnetism of Matter 941

32-1 GAUSS’ LAW FOR MAGNETIC FIELDS 941

32-2 INDUCED MAGNETIC FIELDS 943

32-3 DISPLACEMENT CURRENT 946

32-4 MAGNETS 950

32-5 MAGNETISM AND ELECTRONS 952

32-6 DIAMAGNETISM 957

32-7 PARAMAGNETISM 959

32-8 FERROMAGNETISM 961

REVIEW & SUMMARY 964 QUESTIONS 965 PROBLEMS 967

33 Electromagnetic Waves 972

33-1 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES 972

33-2 ENERGY TRANSPORT AND THE POYNTING VECTOR 980

33-3 RADIATION PRESSURE 983

33-4 POLARIZATION 985

33-5 REFLECTION AND REFRACTION 990

33-6 TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION 996

33-7 POLARIZATION BY REFLECTION 997

REVIEW & SUMMARY 999 QUESTIONS 1000 PROBLEMS 1001

34 Images 1010

34-1 IMAGES AND PLANE MIRRORS 1010

34-2 SPHERICAL MIRRORS 1014

34-3 SPHERICAL REFRACTING SURFACES 1020

34-4 THIN LENSES 1023

34-5 OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS 1030

34-6 THREE PROOFS 1033

REVIEW & SUMMARY 1036 QUESTIONS 1037 PROBLEMS 1038

35 Interference 1047

35-1 LIGHT AS A WAVE 1047

35-2 YOUNG’S INTERFERENCE EXPERIMENT 1053

35-3 INTERFERENCE AND DOUBLE-SLIT

35-4 INTERFERENCE FROM THIN FILMS 1063

35-5 MICHELSON’S INTERFEROMETER 1070

REVIEW & SUMMARY 1072 QUESTIONS 1072 PROBLEMS 1074

36 Diffraction 1081

36-1 SINGLE-SLIT DIFFRACTION 1081

36-2 INTENSITY IN SINGLE-SLIT DIFFRACTION 1086

36-3 DIFFRACTION BY A CIRCULAR APERTURE 1090

36-4 DIFFRACTION BY A DOUBLE SLIT 1094

36-5 DIFFRACTION GRATINGS 1098

36-6 GRATINGS: DISPERSION AND RESOLVING POWER 1101

36-7 X-RAY DIFFRACTION 1104

REVIEW & SUMMARY 1107 QUESTIONS 1107 PROBLEMS 1108

37 Relativity 1116

37-1 SIMULTANEITY AND TIME DILATION 1116

37-2 THE RELATIVITY OF LENGTH 1125

37-3 THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION 1129

37-4 THE RELATIVITY OF VELOCITIES 1133

37-5 DOPPLER EFFECT FOR LIGHT 1134

37-6 MOMENTUM AND ENERGY 1137

REVIEW & SUMMARY 1143 QUESTIONS 1144 PROBLEMS 1145

APPENDICES

A The International System of Units (SI) A-1

B Some Fundamental Constants of Physics A-3

C Some Astronomical Data A-4

D Conversion Factors A-5

E Mathematical Formulas A-9

F Properties of The Elements A-12

G Periodic Table of The Elements A-15

ANSWERS

To Checkpoints and Odd-Numbered Questions and Problems AN-1

INDEX I-1

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      Table of Contents

      1 Measurement 1

      1-1 MEASURING THINGS, INCLUDING LENGTHS 1

      1-2 TIME 5

      1-3 MASS 6

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 8 PROBLEMS 8

      2 Motion Along a Straight Line 13

      2-1 POSITION, DISPLACEMENT, AND AVERAGE VELOCITY 13

      2-2 INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY AND SPEED 18

      2-3 ACCELERATION 20

      2-4 CONSTANT ACCELERATION 23

      2-5 FREE-FALL ACCELERATION 27

      2-6 GRAPHICAL INTEGRATION IN MOTION ANALYSIS 29

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 30 QUESTIONS 31 PROBLEMS 32

      3 Vectors 40

      3-1 VECTORS AND THEIR COMPONENTS 40

      3-2 UNIT VECTORS, ADDING VECTORS BY COMPONENTS 46

      3-3 MULTIPLYING VECTORS 50

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 55 QUESTIONS 56 PROBLEMS 57

      4 Motion in Two and Three Dimensions 62

      4-1 POSITION AND DISPLACEMENT 62

      4-2 AVERAGE VELOCITY AND INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY 64

      4-3 AVERAGE ACCELERATION AND INSTANTANEOUS ACCELERATION 67

      4-4 PROJECTILE MOTION 70

      4-5 UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION 76

      4-6 RELATIVE MOTION IN ONE DIMENSION 78

      4-7 RELATIVE MOTION IN TWO DIMENSIONS 80

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 81 QUESTIONS 82 PROBLEMS 84

      5 Force and Motion—I 94

      5-1 NEWTON’S FIRST AND SECOND LAWS 94

      5-2 SOME PARTICULAR FORCES 102

      5-3 APPLYING NEWTON’S LAWS 106

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 114 QUESTIONS 114 PROBLEMS 116

      6 Force and Motion—II 124

      6-1 FRICTION 124

      6-2 THE DRAG FORCE AND TERMINAL SPEED 130

      6-3 UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION 133

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 138 QUESTIONS 139 PROBLEMS 140

      7 Kinetic Energy and Work 149

      7-1 KINETIC ENERGY 149

      7-2 WORK AND KINETIC ENERGY 151

      7-3 WORK DONE BY THE GRAVITATIONAL FORCE 155

      7-4 WORK DONE BY A SPRING FORCE 159

      7-5 WORK DONE BY A GENERAL VARIABLE FORCE 162

      7-6 POWER 166

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 168 QUESTIONS 169 PROBLEMS 170

      8 Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy 177

      8-1 POTENTIAL ENERGY 177

      8-2 CONSERVATION OF MECHANICAL ENERGY 184

      8-3 READING A POTENTIAL ENERGY CURVE 187

      8-4 WORK DONE ON A SYSTEM BY AN EXTERNAL FORCE 191

      8-5 CONSERVATION OF ENERGY 195

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 199 QUESTIONS 200 PROBLEMS 202

      9 Center of Mass and Linear Momentum 214

      9-1 CENTER OF MASS 214

      9-2 NEWTON’S SECOND LAW FOR A SYSTEM OF PARTICLES 220

      9-3 LINEAR MOMENTUM 224

      9-4 COLLISION AND IMPULSE 226

      9-5 CONSERVATION OF LINEAR MOMENTUM 230

      9-6 MOMENTUM AND KINETIC ENERGY IN COLLISIONS 233

      9-7 ELASTIC COLLISIONS IN ONE DIMENSION 237

      9-8 COLLISIONS IN TWO DIMENSIONS 240

      9-9 SYSTEMS WITH VARYING MASS: A ROCKET 241

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 243 QUESTIONS 245 PROBLEMS 246

      10 Rotation 257

      10-1 ROTATIONAL VARIABLES 257

      10-2 ROTATION WITH CONSTANT ANGULAR ACCELERATION 266

      10-3 RELATING THE LINEAR AND ANGULAR VARIABLES 268

      10-4 KINETIC ENERGY OF ROTATION 271

      10-5 CALCULATING THE ROTATIONAL INERTIA 273

      10-6 TORQUE 277

      10-7 NEWTON’S SECOND LAW FOR ROTATION 279

      10-8 WORK AND ROTATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY 282

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 285 QUESTIONS 286 PROBLEMS 287

      11Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum 295

      11-1 ROLLING AS TRANSLATION AND ROTATION COMBINED 295

      11-2 FORCES AND KINETIC ENERGY OF ROLLING 298

      11-3 THE YO-YO 301

      11-4 TORQUE REVISITED 302

      11-5 ANGULAR MOMENTUM 305

      11-6 NEWTON’S SECOND LAW IN ANGULAR FORM 307

      11-7 ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF A RIGID BODY 310

      11-8 CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM 312

      11-9 PRECESSION OF A GYROSCOPE 317

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 318 QUESTIONS 319 PROBLEMS 320

      12 Equilibrium and Elasticity 327

      12-1 EQUILIBRIUM 327

      12-2 SOME EXAMPLES OF STATIC EQUILIBRIUM 332

      12-3 ELASTICITY 338

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 343 QUESTIONS 343 PROBLEMS 345

      13 Gravitation 354

      13-1 NEWTON’S LAW OF GRAVITATION 354

      13-2 GRAVITATION AND THE PRINCIPLE OF SUPERPOSITION 357

      13-3 GRAVITATION NEAR EARTH’S SURFACE 359

      13-4 GRAVITATION INSIDE EARTH 362

      13-5 GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY 364

      13-6 PLANETS AND SATELLITES: KEPLER’S LAWS 368

      13-7 SATELLITES: ORBITS AND ENERGY 371

      13-8 EINSTEIN AND GRAVITATION 374

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 376 QUESTIONS 377 PROBLEMS 378

      14 Fluids 386

      14-1 FLUIDS, DENSITY, AND PRESSURE 386

      14-2 FLUIDS AT REST 388

      14-3 MEASURING PRESSURE 392

      14-4 PASCAL’S PRINCIPLE 393

      14-5 ARCHIMEDES’ PRINCIPLE 394

      14-6 THE EQUATION OF CONTINUITY 398

      14-7 BERNOULLI’S EQUATION 401

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 405 QUESTIONS 405 PROBLEMS 406

      15 Oscillations 413

      15-1 SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION 413

      15-2 ENERGY IN SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION 421

      15-3 AN ANGULAR SIMPLE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR 423

      15-4 PENDULUMS, CIRCULAR MOTION 424

      15-5 DAMPED SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION 430

      15-6 FORCED OSCILLATIONS AND RESONANCE 432

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 434 QUESTIONS 434 PROBLEMS 436

      16 Waves—I 444

      16-1 TRANSVERSE WAVES 444

      16-2 WAVE SPEED ON A STRETCHED STRING 452

      16-3 ENERGY AND POWER OF A WAVE TRAVELING ALONG A STRING 454

      16-4 THE WAVE EQUATION 456

      16-5 INTERFERENCE OF WAVES 458

      16-6 PHASORS 462

      16-7 STANDING WAVES AND RESONANCE 465

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 470 QUESTIONS 471 PROBLEMS 472

      17 Waves—II 479

      17-1 SPEED OF SOUND 479

      17-2 TRAVELING SOUND WAVES 482

      17-3 INTERFERENCE 485

      17-4 INTENSITY AND SOUND LEVEL 488

      17-5 SOURCES OF MUSICAL SOUND 492

      17-6 BEATS 496

      17-7 THE DOPPLER EFFECT 498

      17-8 SUPERSONIC SPEEDS, SHOCK WAVES 503

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 504 QUESTIONS 505 PROBLEMS 506

      18 Temperature, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics 514

      18-1 TEMPERATURE 514

      18-2 THE CELSIUS AND FAHRENHEIT SCALES 518

      18-3 THERMAL EXPANSION 520

      18-4 ABSORPTION OF HEAT 522

      18-5 THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS 528

      18-6 HEAT TRANSFER MECHANISMS 534

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 538 QUESTIONS 540 PROBLEMS 541

      19 The Kinetic Theory of Gases 549

      19-1 AVOGADRO’S NUMBER 549

      19-2 IDEAL GASES 550

      19-3 PRESSURE, TEMPERATURE, AND RMS SPEED 554

      19-4 TRANSLATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY 557

      19-5 MEAN FREE PATH 558

      19-6 THE DISTRIBUTION OF MOLECULAR SPEEDS 560

      19-7 THE MOLAR SPECIFIC HEATS OF

      19-8 DEGREES OF FREEDOM AND MOLAR SPECIFIC HEATS 568

      19-9 THE ADIABATIC EXPANSION OF AN IDEAL GAS 571

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 575 QUESTIONS 576 PROBLEMS 577

      20 Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics 583

      20-1 ENTROPY 583

      20-2 ENTROPY IN THE REAL WORLD: ENGINES 590

      20-3 REFRIGERATORS AND REAL ENGINES 595

      20-4 A STATISTICAL VIEW OF ENTROPY 598

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 602 QUESTIONS 603 PROBLEMS 604

      21 Coulomb’s Law 609

      21-1 COULOMB’S LAW 609

      21-2 CHARGE IS QUANTIZED 619

      21-3 CHARGE IS CONSERVED 621

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 622 QUESTIONS 623 PROBLEMS 624

      22 Electric Fields 630

      22-1 THE ELECTRIC FIELD 630

      22-2 THE ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO A CHARGED PARTICLE 633

      22-3 THE ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO A DIPOLE 635

      22-4 THE ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO A LINE OF CHARGE 638

      22-5 THE ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO A CHARGED DISK 643

      22-6 A POINT CHARGE IN AN ELECTRIC FIELD 645

      22-7 A DIPOLE IN AN ELECTRIC FIELD 647

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 650 QUESTIONS 651 PROBLEMS 652

      23 Gauss’ Law 659

      23-1 ELECTRIC FLUX 659

      23-2 GAUSS’ LAW 664

      23-3 A CHARGED ISOLATED CONDUCTOR 668

      23-4 APPLYING GAUSS’ LAW: CYLINDRICAL SYMMETRY 671

      23-5 APPLYING GAUSS’ LAW: PLANAR SYMMETRY 673

      23-6 APPLYING GAUSS’ LAW: SPHERICAL SYMMETRY 675

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 677 QUESTIONS 677 PROBLEMS 679

      24 Electric Potential 685

      24-1 ELECTRIC POTENTIAL 685

      24-2 EQUIPOTENTIAL SURFACES AND THE ELECTRIC FIELD 690

      24-3 POTENTIAL DUE TO A CHARGED PARTICLE 694

      24-4 POTENTIAL DUE TO AN ELECTRIC DIPOLE 697

      24-5 POTENTIAL DUE TO A CONTINUOUS CHARGE DISTRIBUTION 698

      24-6 CALCULATING THE FIELD FROM THE POTENTIAL 701

      24-7 ELECTRIC POTENTIAL ENERGY OF A SYSTEM OF CHARGED PARTICLES 703

      24-8 POTENTIAL OF A CHARGED ISOLATED CONDUCTOR 706

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 707 QUESTIONS 708 PROBLEMS 710

      25 Capacitance 717

      25-1 CAPACITANCE 717

      25-2 CALCULATING THE CAPACITANCE 719

      25-3 CAPACITORS IN PARALLEL AND IN SERIES 723

      25-4 ENERGY STORED IN AN ELECTRIC FIELD 728

      25-5 CAPACITOR WITH A DIELECTRIC 731

      25-6 DIELECTRICS AND GAUSS’ LAW 735

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 738 QUESTIONS 738 PROBLEMS 739

      26 Current and Resistance 745

      26-1 ELECTRIC CURRENT 745

      26-2 CURRENT DENSITY 748

      26-3 RESISTANCE AND RESISTIVITY 752

      26-4 OHM’S LAW 756

      26-5 POWER, SEMICONDUCTORS, SUPERCONDUCTORS 760

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 763 QUESTIONS 764 PROBLEMS 765

      27 Circuits 771

      27-1 SINGLE-LOOP CIRCUITS 771

      27-2 MULTILOOP CIRCUITS 781

      27-3 THE AMMETER AND THE VOLTMETER 788

      27-4 RC CIRCUITS 788

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 793 QUESTIONS 793 PROBLEMS 795

      28 Magnetic Fields 803

      28-1 MAGNETIC FIELDS AND THE DEFINITION OF B→ 803

      28-2 CROSSED FIELDS: DISCOVERY OF THE ELECTRON 808

      28-3 CROSSED FIELDS: THE HALL EFFECT 810

      28-4 A CIRCULATING CHARGED PARTICLE 814

      28-5 CYCLOTRONS AND SYNCHROTRONS 817

      28-6 MAGNETIC FORCE ON A CURRENT-CARRYING WIRE 820

      28-7 TORQUE ON A CURRENT LOOP 822

      28-8 THE MAGNETIC DIPOLE MOMENT 824

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 827 QUESTIONS 827 PROBLEMS 829

      29 Magnetic Fields Due to Currents 836

      29-1 MAGNETIC FIELD DUE TO A CURRENT 836

      29-2 FORCE BETWEEN TWO PARALLEL CURRENTS 842

      29-3 AMPERE’S LAW 844

      29-4 SOLENOIDS AND TOROIDS 848

      29-5 A CURRENT-CARRYING COIL AS A MAGNETIC DIPOLE 851

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 854 QUESTIONS 855 PROBLEMS 856

      30 Induction and Inductance 864

      30-1 FARADAY’S LAW AND LENZ’S LAW 864

      30-2 INDUCTION AND ENERGY TRANSFERS 871

      30-3 INDUCED ELECTRIC FIELDS 874

      30-4 INDUCTORS AND INDUCTANCE 879

      30-5 SELF-INDUCTION 881

      30-6 RL CIRCUITS 882

      30-7 ENERGY STORED IN A MAGNETIC FIELD 887

      30-8 ENERGY DENSITY OF A MAGNETIC FIELD 889

      30-9 MUTUAL INDUCTION 890

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 893 QUESTIONS 893 PROBLEMS 895

      31 Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current 903

      31-1 LC OSCILLATIONS 903

      31-2 DAMPED OSCILLATIONS IN AN RLC CIRCUIT 910

      31-3 FORCED OSCILLATIONS OF THREE SIMPLE CIRCUITS 912

      31-4 THE SERIES RLC CIRCUIT 921

      31-5 POWER IN ALTERNATING-CURRENT CIRCUITS 927

      31-6 TRANSFORMERS 930

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 933 QUESTIONS 934 PROBLEMS 935

      32 Maxwell’s Equations; Magnetism of Matter 941

      32-1 GAUSS’ LAW FOR MAGNETIC FIELDS 941

      32-2 INDUCED MAGNETIC FIELDS 943

      32-3 DISPLACEMENT CURRENT 946

      32-4 MAGNETS 950

      32-5 MAGNETISM AND ELECTRONS 952

      32-6 DIAMAGNETISM 957

      32-7 PARAMAGNETISM 959

      32-8 FERROMAGNETISM 961

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 964 QUESTIONS 965 PROBLEMS 967

      33 Electromagnetic Waves 972

      33-1 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES 972

      33-2 ENERGY TRANSPORT AND THE POYNTING VECTOR 980

      33-3 RADIATION PRESSURE 983

      33-4 POLARIZATION 985

      33-5 REFLECTION AND REFRACTION 990

      33-6 TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION 996

      33-7 POLARIZATION BY REFLECTION 997

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 999 QUESTIONS 1000 PROBLEMS 1001

      34 Images 1010

      34-1 IMAGES AND PLANE MIRRORS 1010

      34-2 SPHERICAL MIRRORS 1014

      34-3 SPHERICAL REFRACTING SURFACES 1020

      34-4 THIN LENSES 1023

      34-5 OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS 1030

      34-6 THREE PROOFS 1033

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 1036 QUESTIONS 1037 PROBLEMS 1038

      35 Interference 1047

      35-1 LIGHT AS A WAVE 1047

      35-2 YOUNG’S INTERFERENCE EXPERIMENT 1053

      35-3 INTERFERENCE AND DOUBLE-SLIT

      35-4 INTERFERENCE FROM THIN FILMS 1063

      35-5 MICHELSON’S INTERFEROMETER 1070

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 1072 QUESTIONS 1072 PROBLEMS 1074

      36 Diffraction 1081

      36-1 SINGLE-SLIT DIFFRACTION 1081

      36-2 INTENSITY IN SINGLE-SLIT DIFFRACTION 1086

      36-3 DIFFRACTION BY A CIRCULAR APERTURE 1090

      36-4 DIFFRACTION BY A DOUBLE SLIT 1094

      36-5 DIFFRACTION GRATINGS 1098

      36-6 GRATINGS: DISPERSION AND RESOLVING POWER 1101

      36-7 X-RAY DIFFRACTION 1104

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 1107 QUESTIONS 1107 PROBLEMS 1108

      37 Relativity 1116

      37-1 SIMULTANEITY AND TIME DILATION 1116

      37-2 THE RELATIVITY OF LENGTH 1125

      37-3 THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION 1129

      37-4 THE RELATIVITY OF VELOCITIES 1133

      37-5 DOPPLER EFFECT FOR LIGHT 1134

      37-6 MOMENTUM AND ENERGY 1137

      REVIEW & SUMMARY 1143 QUESTIONS 1144 PROBLEMS 1145

      APPENDICES

      A The International System of Units (SI) A-1

      B Some Fundamental Constants of Physics A-3

      C Some Astronomical Data A-4

      D Conversion Factors A-5

      E Mathematical Formulas A-9

      F Properties of The Elements A-12

      G Periodic Table of The Elements A-15

      ANSWERS

      To Checkpoints and Odd-Numbered Questions and Problems AN-1

      INDEX I-1

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