Lectures in Physics
has been derived from Benjamin Crowell's
Light and Matter
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Index
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Preface
Newtonian Physics
Introduction and Review
Scaling and Order-of-Magnitude Estimates
Velocity and Relative Motion
Acceleration and Free Fall
Force and Motion
Galileo and Newton
Force
Newton’s First Law
Newton’s Second Law
What Force Is Not
Inertial and Noninertial Frames of Reference
Examples
An Elevator
Terminal velocity for falling objects
A passenger riding the subway
Forces on a sailboat
A car crash
An accelerating bus
Weight and mass
Calculating terminal velocity
Summary
Homework Problems
Analysis of Forces
Newton’s Laws in Three Dimensions
Vectors
Vectors and Motion
Circular Motion
Gravity
Conservation Laws
Vibration and Waves
Electricity
Optics
Modern Physics
Appendix
Last Update: 2006-Mär-22