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Newtonian Physics by Benjamin Crowell - Table of Contents

 

Newtonian Physics

Preface - 13

A Note to the Student Taking Calculus Concurrently - 14

 

0 Introduction and Review - 15

0.1 The Scientific Method - 15

0.2 What Is Physics? - 17

0.3 How to Learn Physics - 20

0.4 Self-Evaluation - 22

0.5 Basics of the Metric System - 22

0.6 The Newton, the Metric Unit of Force - 25

0.7 Less Common Metric Prefixes - 26

0.8 Scientific Notation - 27

0.9 Conversions - 28

0.10 Significant Figures - 30

Summary - 32

Homework Problems - 33

 

1 Scaling and Order-of-Magnitude Estimates - 35

1.1 Introduction - 35

1.2 Scaling of Area and Volume - 37

1.3 Scaling Applied to Biology - 44

1.4 Order-of-Magnitude Estimates - 47

Summary - 50

Homework Problems - 50

 

Motion in One Dimension - 53

2 Velocity and Relative Motion - 54

2.1 Types of Motion - 54

2.2 Describing Distance and Time - 57

2.3 Graphs of Motion; Velocity. - 60

2.4 The Principle of Inertia - 64

2.5 Addition of Velocities - 67

2.6 Graphs of Velocity Versus Time - 69

2.7 ò Applications of Calculus - 69

Summary - 71

 

3 Acceleration and Free Fall - 75

3.1 The Motion of Falling Objects - 75

3.2 Acceleration - 78

3.3 Positive and Negative Acceleration - 81

3.4 Varying Acceleration - 84

3.5 The Area Under the Velocity-Time Graph - 87

3.6 Algebraic Results for Constant Acceleration - 89

3.7* Biological Effects of Weightlessness - 91

3.8 ò Applications of Calculus - 93

Summary - 94

Homework Problems - 95

 

4 Force and Motion - 99

4.1 Force - 99

4.2 Newton’s First Law - 102

4.3 Newton’s Second Law - 106

4.4 What Force Is Not - 108

4.5 Inertial and Noninertial Frames of Reference - 110

Summary - 112

Homework Problems - 113

 

5 Analysis of Forces - 115

5.1 Newton’s Third Law - 115

5.2 Classification and Behavior of Forces -120

5.3 Analysis of Forces - 126

5.4 Transmission of Forces by Low-Mass Objects - 128

5.5 Objects Under Strain - 130

5.6 Simple Machines: The Pulley - 131

Summary - 132

Homework Problems - 133

 

Motion in Three Dimensions - 139

6 Newton’s Laws in Three Dimensions - 139

6.1 Forces Have No Perpendicular Effects - 139

6.2 Coordinates and Components - 142

6.3 Newton’s Laws in Three Dimensions - 144

Summary - 146

Homework Problems - 147

 

7 Vectors - 149

7.1 Vector Notation - 149

7.2 Calculations with Magnitude and Direction - 152

7.3 Techniques for Adding Vectors - 155

7.4* Unit Vector Notation - 156

7.5* Rotational Invariance - 156

Summary - 157

Homework Problems - 158

 

8 Vectors and Motion - 159

8.1 The Velocity Vector - 160

8.2 The Acceleration Vector - 161

8.3 The Force Vector and Simple Machines - 164

8.4 ò Calculus With Vectors - 165

Summary - 167

Homework Problems - 168

  

9 Circular Motion - 171

9.1 Conceptual Framework for Circular Motion - 171

9.2 Uniform Circular Motion - 176

9.3 Nonuniform Circular Motion - 179

Summary - 180

Homework Problems - 181

 

10 Gravity - 185

10.1 Kepler’s Laws - 186

10.2 Newton’s Law of Gravity - 187

10.3 Apparent Weightlessness - 192

10.4 Vector Addition of Gravitational Forces - 193

10.5 Weighing the Earth - 195

10.6* Evidence for Repulsive Gravity - 198

Summary - 199

Homework Problems - 200

Exercises - 205

Solutions to Selected Problems - 215

Glossary - 221

Mathematical Review - 223

Trig Tables - 224

Index - 225