U can physics I for dummies. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Physics I for dummies
• Further Information: Note: By Steven Holzner, with Daniel Funch Wohns.
• Authors: Holzner, Steven
• Contents: INTRODUCTION 1 PART I GETTING STARTED WITH PHYSICS 5 Chapter 1: Using Physics to Understand Your World 7 Chapter 2: Reviewing Physics Measurement and Math Fundamentals 15 Chapter 3: Exploring the Need for Speed 35 Chapter 4: Following Directions: Motion in Two Dimensions 61 PART II MAY THE FORCES BE WITH YOU 87 Chapter 5: When Push Comes to Shove: Force 89 Chapter 6: Getting Down with Gravity, Inclined Planes, and Friction 111 Chapter 7: Circling Around Rotational Motion and Orbits 129 Chapter 8: Go with the Flow: Looking at Pressure in Fluids 159 PART III WORKING ENERGETICALLY 187 Chapter 9: Getting Some Work Out of Physics 189 Chapter 10: Putting Objects in Motion: Momentum and Impulse 215 Chapter 11: Winding Up with Angular Motion 237 Chapter 12: Round and Round with Rotational Dynamics 265 Chapter 13: Springs ’n’ Things: Simple Harmonic Motion 285 PART IV LAYING DOWN THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS 309 Chapter 14: Turning Up the Heat with Thermodynamics 311 Chapter 15: Here, Take My Coat: How Heat Is Transferred 329 Chapter 16: In the Best of All Possible Worlds: The Ideal Gas Law 345 Chapter 17: Heat and Work: The Laws of Thermodynamics 357 PART V THE PART OF TENS 381 Chapter 18: Ten Common Mistakes People Make When Solving Problems 383 Chapter 19: Ten Wild Physics Theories 387 INDEX 393
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 530; Physics; SCIENCE / Energy; SCIENCE / Mechanics / General; SCIENCE / Physics / General; Physics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119093725; 1119093724; 9781119093718; 1119093716; 9781119296676; 1119296676; 9781119296690; 1119296692
• Related ISBNs: 9781119093824
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 14, 2015).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.