How does the appearance of a new type of cloud signal changes in Earth’s atmosphere?

1-1 What Is Physics?

1-2 Measuring Things.

1-3 The International System of Units.

1-4 Changing Units.

1-5 Length.

1-6 Time.

1-7 Mass.

Review & Summary.

Problems.

Chapter 2. Motion Along a Straight Line.

What causes whiplash injury in rear-end collisions of cars?

2-1 What Is Physics?

2-2 Motion.

2-3 Position and Displacement.

2-4 Average Velocity and Average Speed.

2-5 Instantaneous Velocity and Speed.

2-6 Acceleration.

2-7 Constant Acceleration: A Special Case.

2-8 Another Look at Constant Acceleration.

2-9 Free-Fall Acceleration.

2-10 Graphical Integration in Motion Analysis.

Review & Summary.

Questions.

Problems.

Chapter 3. Vectors.

How does an ant know the way home with no guiding clues on the deser t plains?

3-2 Vectors and Scalars.

3-3 Adding Vectors Geometrically.

3-4 Components of Vectors.

3-5 Unit Vectors.

3-6 Adding Vectors by Components.

3-7 Vectors and the Laws of Physics.

3-8 Multiplying Vectors.

Review & Summary.

Questions.

Problems.

Chapter 4. Motion in Two and Three Dimensions.

In a motorcycle jump for record distance, where does the jumper put the second ramp?

4-1 What Is Physics?

4-2 Position and Displacement.

4-3 Average Velocity and Instantaneous Velocity.

4-4 Average Acceleration and Instantaneous Acceleration.

4-5 Projectile Motion.

4-6 Projectile Motion Analyzed.

4-7 Uniform Circular Motion.

4-8 Relative Motion in One Dimension.

4-9 Relative Motion in Two Dimensions.

Review & Summary.

Questions.

Problems.

Chapter 5. Force and Motion–I.

When a pilot takes off from an aircraft carrier, what causes the compulsion to fly the plane into the ocean?

5-1 What Is Physics?

5-2 Newtonian Mechanics.

5-3 Newton’s First Law.

5-4 Force.

5-5 Mass.

5-6 Newton’s Second Law.

5-7 Some Particular Forces.

5-8 Newton’s Third Law.

5-9 Applying Newton’s Laws.

Review & Summary.

Questions.

Problems.

Chapter 6. Force and Motion–II.

Can a Grand Prix race car be driven upside down on a ceiling?

6-1 What Is Physics?

6-2 Friction.

6-3 Properties of Friction.

6-4 The Drag Force and Terminal Speed.

6-5 Uniform Circular Motion.

Review & Summary.

Questions.

Problems.

Chapter 7. Kinetic Energy and Work.

In an epidural procedure, what sensations clue a surgeon that the needle has reached the spinal canal?

7-1 What Is Physics?

7-2 What Is Energy?

7-3 Kinetic Energy.

7-4 Work.

7-5 Work and Kinetic Energy.

7-6 Work Done by the Gravitational Force.

7-7 Work Done by a Spring Force.

7-8 Work Done by a General Variable Force.

7-9 Power.

Review & Summary.

Questions.

Problems.

Chapter 8. Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy.

In rock climbing, what subtle factor determines if a falling climber will snap the rope?

8-1 What Is Physics?

8-2 Work and Potential Energy.

8-3 Path Independence of Conservative Forces.

8-4 Determining Potential Energy Values.

8-5 Conservation of Mechanical Energy.

8-6 Reading a Potential Energy Curve.

8-7 Work Done on a System by an External Force.

8-8 Conservation of Energy.

Review & Summary.

Questions.

Problems.

Chapter 9. Center of Mass and Linear Momentum.

Does the presence of a passenger reduce the fatality risk in head-on car collisions?

9-1 What Is Physics?

9-2 The Center of Mass.

9-3 Newton’s Second Law for a System of Particles.

9-4 Linear Momentum.

9-5 The Linear Momentum of a System of Particles.

9-6 Collision and Impulse.

9-7 Conservation of Linear Momentum.

9-8 Momentum and Kinetic Energy in Collisions.

9-9 Inelastic Collisions in One Dimension.

9-10 Elastic Collisions in One Dimension.

9-11 Collisions in Two Dimensions.

9-12 Systems with Varying Mass: A Rocket.

Review & Summary.

Questions.

Problems.

Chapter 10. Rotation.

What causes roller-coaster headache?

10-1 What Is Physics?

10-2 The Rotational Variables.

10-3 Are Angular Quantities Vectors?

10-4 Rotation with Constant Angular Acceleration.

10-5 Relating the Linear and Angular Variables.

10-6 Kinetic Energy of Rotation.

10-7 Calculating the Rotational Inertia.

10-8 Torque.

10-9 Newton’s Second Law for Rotation.

10-10 Work and Rotational Kinetic Energy.

Review & Summary.

Questions.

Problems.

Chapter 11. Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum.

When a jet-powered car became supersonic in setting the land-speed record, what was the danger to the wheels?

11-1 What Is Physics?

11-2 Rolling as Translation and Rotation Combined.

11-3 The Kinetic Energy of Rolling.

11-4 The Forces of Rolling.

11-5 The Yo-Yo.

11-6 Torque Revisited.

11-7 Angular Momentum.

11-8 Newton’s Second Law in Angular Form.

11-9 The Angular Momentum of a System of Particles.

11-10 The Angular Momentum of a Rigid Body Rotating About a Fixed Axis.

11-11 Conservation of Angular Momentum.

11-12 Precession of a Gyroscope.

Review & Summary.

Questions.

Problems.

Appendix A: The International System of Units (SI).

Appendix B: Some Fundamental Constants of Physics.

Appendix C: Some Astronomical Data.

Appendix D: Conversion Factors.

Appendix E: Mathematical Formulas.

Appendix F: Properties of the Elements.

Appendix G: Periodic Table of the Elements.

Answers to Checkpoints and Odd-Numbered Questions and Problems.

Index.